These swords are well-balanced and easy to use, and can deal a lot of damage. Kiwame tachi have a chance to get a free beginning attack.
In General
- Lightning Bruiser: Level them up until they reach Toku, and they will gain notable boost in mobility. Even more so if they have horses equipped.
- Mighty Glacier: While not as extreme as oodachi, they start out with limited mobility. However, see Lightning Bruiser.
- Rare Random Drop:
- All five-petal rarity/Highest swords that are not kiwame forms belong to this family, at least until the Tsurugi Shichiseiken was released.
- While less exclusive than five-petal rarity, the tachi class also has a surplus of four-petal/Special rarity Touken Danshi, currently sitting at 12, while these level rarity swords are nonexistent in other sword types save for Oodachi (Hotarumaru), Yari (Nihongou), and Tsurugi (Hakusan Yoshimitsu) until the lower rarity swords from other classes kiwame.
- Short Teens, Tall Adults: The tachi all have longer blades, which is reflected in their human forms resembling adults at different life stages (with the strange exception of Nukemaru, Kogarasumaru, and Shishiou); in contrast, the wakizashi, with their medium blades, resemble teenagers, and the tantou, with their short blades, resemble children. Shishiou also plays this straight in his own class, as he's a tachi with the personality of a teenage boy and is on the shorter side, standing at all only 166 cm.
