Dual Wielding / Video Games

It must take some fancy skills to wield two katanas.

Dual Wielding in Video Games.

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Examples A—D

• Afterimage:
  • Dualblades are pairs of daggers that can be dual-wielded by Renee.
  • Outcasts and Sheatheless Hollows dual-wield daggers.
• While the "left hand" equipment slot in Albion can only be used for a shield, two aliens get a "tail" slot, which can equip either a one-handed weapon or a shield. The numbers on the equipment screen treat the power of both weapons and shields as additive, although in actual combat the animations indicate that each weapon makes a separate attack.
• Fray, the hero of Alphadia Genesis, wields a pair of one-handed swords as his only weapon set.
• ANNO: Mutationem has Ann's Dual Blades, which she can wield equally as well with both hands for devastating stabbing and slashing assaults, or combine them into a double-headed glaive.
• Arizona Sunshine: You can wield a weapon in each hand against zombies.
• Mr. Big and Rody Birts from the Art of Fighting series both represent this trope. Mr. Big uses two rattan sticks while Rody wilds dual tonfa.
• Aselia the Eternal - The Spirit of Eternity Sword: Considering that every fighting character uses swords, you'd expect more people to dual wield. But due to how Eternity Swords work, there's only one minor character that you actually see use two of them. Tokimi does have two, but she fights using a fan and sword instead.
• Ashes 2063: Scav can wield either the crowbar or a handgun alongside his Solar Lantern. This can also be done with the Machine Pistol, but it's very hard to control its recoil firing it one-handed, even when it's fully upgraded.
• Assassin's Creed:
  • Ezio Auditore's rediscovery of the Codex of Altair in Assassin's Creed II allows the Assassins to fashion a second Hidden Blade to add to the initial first one. While initially reserved for only high-ranking members, over time, the Order eventually granted the use of dual Blades to even low-ranking members out of practicality.
    Ezio: Now I can kill double the guards.
  • In Assassin's Creed III, Connor's natural skill and Combat Pragmatist mindset allows him to dual-wield most of his given weapons, whether that be a tomahawk-Hidden Blade combo, a tomahawk-pistol combo, and even two pistols at once. You name it, he can and will use it.
  • Edward Kenway, as seen in Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, specializes in dual-wielding cutlasses as well as carrying around four individual pistols to incorporate into his vicious fighting style.
    • Shay Cormac, the Assassin-turned-Templar in Assassin's Creed Rogue, though similarly skilled like Edward, forgoes this trope in favor of using a dagger in his off-hand and a single iteration of a blade.
  • Starting with Assassin's Creed: Odyssey, all protagonists can dual-wield a wide variety of melee weapons. The Eagle Bearer still downplays it a bit by always using Leonidas' Spear in their off-hand. Eivor, however has no such restrictions and can dual-wield any combination of spears, swords, axes, maces and even shields once they've acquired the necessary ability. Note that all swords in Valhalla are two-handed BFSs, and that both games allow for near-instant switching between melee combat and archery. To make up for all that flexibility, a number of new enemy types (usually of the Fragile Speedster or Lightning Bruiser type) have also taken up dual-wielding, most often daggers or hatchets.
• A-Tech Cybernetic: You can wield a weapon in each hand, though you will need to drop one of them to pick up anything else.
• One of the bosses in Ato fights with two very large blades.
• The protagonist Byuu and his rival Palpaleos in Bahamut Lagoon are both Cross Knights, whose job title seems to include wielding two swords at once.
• A feature that can be used in Baldur's Gate II and many other games based on Dungeons & Dragons. Predominately done by the Ranger or Kensai classes.
• In Batman for the Sega Genesis, the unnamed boss of Stage 4-2 comes after Batman swinging a sword in each hand.
• Battle Axe has the Dark Elf warrior, Fae who uses a pair of curved blades simultaneously.
• Tracy from Battle Arena Toshinden 2 uses a pair of tonfa to good effect. Rachael, her Evil Counterpart from Toshinden 3 uses a much larger set.
• In Bayonetta, the title character usually wields guns in both hands and on both feet. There are some weapons that give her dual wielding katanas, whips and, lightsabres.
• Bloodborne has the Blade of Mercy, the weapon of choice for the Hunter of Hunters oath. It's a short sword that can be split apart into a pair of daggers. Naturally, these are the fastest attacking weapons in the game.
• Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain: Kain can wield the axes Havoc and Malice at the same time, but he needs a free hand to use spells or other items.
• Both titular protagonists of Square Enix's Miyamoto Musashi-inspired games, Brave Fencer Musashi and Musashi Samurai Legend, dual wield a katana with a big magic broadsword. The former only ever has one broadsword at a time, while the latter can collect up to six.
• Lao from Bujingai dual wields swords: a large, yellow saber made for physical attacks and a longsword used for channelling magic, which can also turn into a bow.
• CABAL Online:
  • Bladers can dual-wield Blades or Katanas and can even use both swords at the same time. Battle Mode 2 allows them to dual-wield claws to attack enemies at the cost of not able to use any sword skills.
  • Force Archer's Battle Mode 2 skill lets them dual wield guns and attack two enemies in different directions. Its Force Gunner counterpart can dual wield energy guns but can only attack one enemy.
• Castlevania:
  • Castlevania: Symphony of the Night: Alucard can equip any weapon in either hand (save two handed weapons, obviously). Though his swing speed doesn't pick up any, it can be convenient not to have to go into the sub menu if you're using elementally aligned weapons.
  • The series Prequel, Castlevania: Lament of Innocence had the bonus character, vampire Joachim Armster, who wielded five broadswords using his telekinesis.
• Glenn can do this in Chrono Cross, the reason why many players opt for Razzly to be Permanently Missable (until the New Game Plus anyway) instead of him; presumably, he picked the trick up from his That One Boss father, Garai.
• City of Heroes introduced the Dual Blades powerset in Issue 11. It features a combo system where using attacks in the proper sequences will cause various effects. The player can also choose what type of sword they want in each hand the same way they design their costume.
• Conqueror's Blade has two dual-wielding hero classes: Dual Blades has you using two daggers in reverse grips, while the Chain Dart & Scimitar weapon gives you a scimitar sword with a chain dart to use like a grappling hook.
  • Several units also dual-wield weapons. Berserkers use two axes, Sons of Fenrir use a dagger and an axe, Dimachaeri use a gladius and a sica (Roman gladiator swords), and Hashashins use two different types of dagger
• Called verbatim in Cry of Fear as an inventory option, allowing Simon to hold two small items (typically the knife, the Glock and a light source such as Simon's phone) at the same time. There's a caveat when dual-wielding the Glock with anything, however: Simon can't aim down the sights for some reason.
• During the Final Battle with Dark Emperor Griffon, in Dark Chronicle, he rips off his own wings and transforms them into swords, wielding one in each hand. Since he's the size of a bear to begin with, these scimitar-shaped swords are as big as oars.
• Death from Darksiders II does this by default. His primary weapon(s) consists of a pair of Scythes, which he wields simultaneously in combat. Occasionally subverted when he fuses the two into a single large scythe, usually to end combos. Also, all of Death's fast-hitting secondary weapons such as claws, armblades and Gauntlets, are dual-wielded by the horseman.
• In the Dark Souls series:
  • Dark Souls:
    • Like its spiritual predecessor Demon's Souls, the game allows you to wield any weapons (even shields) in either hand, although dual wielding sacrifices your ability to parry for extra attacks, unless that weapon is something like the Parry Dagger, curved swords, katanas, thrusting swords, whips or fist weapons.
    • The Artorias of The Abyss DLC comes with two weapons meant specifically to be used together: the Dark Silver Tracer, which can toxify enemies if used in the right hand, and the Gold Tracer, which is the only weapon in the game that has two attacks when held in the left hand. They belonged to master assassin Ciaran, one of Gwyn's Four Knights, who wielded them to deadly effects.
  • Dark Souls II greatly expands on dual wielding compared to the previous two games, allowing you to go into a special stance called Power Stance that incorporates swinging both weapons while dual wielding. In the case of the Caestus, the undead goes from Good Old Fisticuffs to a Boxing Battler. There's even two specific shield that are designed for dual wielding both them. There is however a catch, that being that in order to Power Stance weapons, you need even higher stats than you would in order to wield them normally, that being 1.5x the Strength and Dexterity.
  • Dark Souls III:
    • The player has several weapons that utilize dual wielding: The Winged Knight Twinaxes, Painting Guardian Sword and Farron Greatsword, with the latter having a dagger to compensate the greatsword's weight.
    • The enemies have it too, more specifically: The Abyss Watchers (who owns the aformentioned Farron Greatsword), Pontiff Sulyvahn and The Dancer of the Boreal Valley just to mention a few.
    • DLC content introduces a couple new dual wielding enemies whose weapons you can acquire for yourself. Ashes of Ariandel has Sister Elfriede, who conjures a second scythe in her left hand in the final phase of her boss fight. You can use the boss soul to craft the scythe for your own use, and the Weapon Art allows you to summon the second scythe as well. In The Ringed City, one of the Ringed Knights wields a pair of unique Ultra Greatswords. The Ringed Knight Paired Greatswords have a chance of dropping upon defeating him.
• In Darkness Survival from Zero++ Software, your character can put any one-handed weapon in her left hand except for club-type weapons which must be in her right hand. The game gives a percentage chance of the character using their left hand to attack at the same time as her right, the legendary Thief skill Tactical Battle gives the user an increase to the chance that they'll use the weapon or shield in their left hand.
• Demon Hunter: The Return of the Wings: Bormenta has three different swords, but wields up to two at once.
• Demon's Souls and its spiritual successor Dark Souls allows you to wield any weapons (even shields) in either hand, although dual wielding sacrifices your ability to parry for extra attacks, unless that weapon is something like the Parry Dagger, curved swords, katanas, thrusting swords, whips or fist weapons.
• Devil May Cry:
  • In Devil May Cry 2, Lucia dual-wields daggers.
  • In Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening, Dante does this with the Agni & Rudra fire and wind scimitars.
  • In Devil May Cry 3, Devil May Cry 4: Special Edition and Devil May Cry 5: Special Edition, Vergil takes it a step further with his Yamato katana and Force Edge broadsword. Although quasi-realistically enough, he doesn't try to strike with both at the same time.
  • In Devil May Cry 5, Dante dual wields giant chainsaws transformed from a demonic motorcycle.
• Diablo:
  • Diablo II:
    • The barbarian is noted for his ability to dual-wield (and throw) all kinds of things, included weapons that normally require both hands to use at all.
    • Also the expansion pack character class of the Assassin could dual-wield claw class weapons and wrist blades, and had a specific skill to enable her to use them defensively too, comparable to a decent shield.
  • In Diablo III the Barbarian and Monk can dual-wield 1-handed melee weapons while the Demon Hunter can dual-wield 1-handed crossbows.
• In Dicey Dungeons, the Thief is shown wielding a pair of daggers.
• In Disco Elysium, one of the books your character can come across is a fantasy novel starring a Barbarian Hero who dual-wields zweihanders. With good ranks in certain skills, your internal monologue can grumpily inform you that whoever wrote these books must have no knowledge or experience whatsoever of swordfighting, to say nothing of dual-wielded two-handed swordfighting.
• Disgaea:
  • All the prinnies in the series dual-wield daggers for their basic melee attacks.
  • Disgaea 4 allows the dual-wielding of Magichange weapons. Any combination of sword, spear, staff, axe, fist, gun or bow can be used together, and it tends to look even sillier with giant magichange weapons, which are much larger then the wielder.
  • Disgaea 5 has dual wielding in a different sense: characters have a Main Weapon, and a Sub-Weapon with which to switch between, either manually or through using a related skill. Of course, Dual Magichange Weapons are a viable option. In the late game there is an Evility that allows the user to attack with both Main and Sub weapons, and another one to gain full stats from the Sub weapon (which is normally limited to 25% of their non HP/SP stats).
• In the Divine Divinity series:
  • Divinity: Original Sin: Characters can wield a one-handed weapon in each hand, which enables the "Flurry" skill for an extra attack. Investing points in the "Two-Handed" combat ability makes Critical Hits more likely and more damaging while dual-wielding.
  • Divinity: Original Sin II: Characters can wield two one-handed weapons, including swords, maces, daggers, and even wands. The offhand weapon's damage is reduced by half, but dual-wielding enables the "Flurry" skill for an extra attack. Investing points in the "Two-Handed" combat ability boosts attack damage and the chance to dodge incoming attacks while dual-wielding.
• Dragon Age:
  • Warriors and Rogues in Dragon Age: Origins have the option of following this path. Both will eventually be able to Dual Wield longswords, axes, and maces. Additionally, this allows rogues to still deal effective damage when Back Stabbing isn't an option. Zevran already has a few Dual Wielding talents if/when he joins you.
  • Dragon Age II
    • Only available to player characters of the rogue class using a pair of daggers. It is one of the strongest rogue builds in the game, especially when paired with Duellist and Assassin, allowing you to shred virtually anything quickly — especially if it's stunned (giving you automatic criticals with one specific talent).
    • The Arishok, the Army leader of a race of giants, wields a greatsword with one hand and a battleaxe with the other.
  • Dragon Age: Inquisition likewise restricts dual-wielding to Rogues.
• Dragon Quest IV: Estark wields two large swords that he plunges into his foes.
• Dread Templar grants you twin blades as your default melee weapons, that you can slice up low-level monsters with. You can even attach them together by the hilt into a Double Weapon.
• Some heroes in Dungeons dual wield weapons, usually daggers, swords or even mallets.

Examples E—H

• Elden Ring as the spiritual successor to Dark Souls has both the Power-stance option and special paired weapons. Unlike Dark Souls II mentioned above, Power-stancing can be achieved as soon as you have the required stats.
• The Elder Scrolls
  • After years of fan demand, Skyrim finally added dual-wielding to the series as an option. (Previous games only allowed you to hold a torch or shield in your off-hand). This can either be dual-wielding two melee weapons, dual wielding magic spells (or staves/scrolls), or one of each. The programmers initially did not plan the dual-wielding of melee weapons, but when a mistake in the programming allowed this to happen, they liked the idea, so expanded on it — there are unique animations for power attacks, and special perks that affect the efficacy of the tactic. There's also "Dual Casting" — casting the same spell in both hands at the same time will, with the appropriate perk, cast a more powerful version of it. The drawback is that the block button is now used to swing the second weapon, making it impossible defend yourself while dual-wielding. An in-game book written by a warrior handwaves this with something along the lines of "You can't block properly holding a weapon with just one hand, so don't even try. Dodge the enemy attacks instead". A popular mod allows the player to do it anyway.
    • Of note is the legendary pirate king Haknir Death-Brand, introduced in the Dragonborn DLC. He possessed a unique set of enchanted gear that provide major benefits when equipped together. Particularly, the Deathbrand Gauntlets boost the power of one-handed attacks when dual wielding and the scimitars Bloodscythe and Soulrender absorb health and magic respectively when wielded together. You can embark on a quest to hunt down his hidden treasure, uncover his armor, fight his ghost and claim his blades for yourself.
  • In the series' backstory, this is the favored combat style of the Tsaesci, an Akaviri race of Snake People. As they have a cultural aversion to shields (their martial arts teach that if you don't want to get hit, you should get out of the way), they are known to wield a katana in their dominant hand and a wakizashi in their off-hand as a favored fighting style.
  • Also from the backstory comes Pelinal Whitestrake, the legendary 1st Era hero of mankind/racist berserker. He was known to wield the Sword and Mace of the Crusader in this fashion, making him all the more deadly during his Unstoppable Rages.
• Karim from Eternal Darkness can wield two talwars at the same time. Not surprising, considering he's strong enough to wield a zhanmadao.
• Several classes throughout the Etrian Odyssey series, such as the Shogun in Etrian Odyssey III: The Drowned City and the Nightseeker in Etrian Odyssey IV: Legends of the Titan, can wield and strike with two weapons at once, but of note is the Masurao in Etrian Odyssey V: Beyond the Myth, who can acquire a special Prestige Class that allows them wield and attack with four blades despite having only two arms.^note It's possible that they're striking with one or two blades at a time in rapid succession. However, each of those additional blades takes up an equipment slot that can also be used for armor, meaning that a quad-wielding Masurao will have the defenses of tissue paper.
• Final Fantasy:
  • The Genji Glove item sometimes gives the equipped character the ability to do this. In Final Fantasy VI, the character could also equip the Offering (otherwise known as the Master's Scroll) for quadrupling the number of hits, yielding a total of eight strikes per turn. Each hit only deals half the regular damage... except there are 4 weapons immune to this: The Fixed Dice, the Dice (which you can buy freely,) the Valiant Knife, and the Ultima Weapon. Toss in the spell Quick, which gives a character two actions in one turn, and you get sixteen full-power hits at once, and can say goodbye to the Final Boss pretty quickly.
  • Ninjas usually possess or can learn this ability.
  • A similar trick to the FFVI example existed earlier in the series; in Final Fantasy V, the Ranger's "Rapid Fire" skill, which attacks four times, allows for eight hits (again at half power) when paired with the Ninja's ability to dual-wield.
  • There are even some FF games where everyone can dual-wield. In Final Fantasy II, dual-wielding is very powerful but not advisable long-term, as you'll be leveling up only attack and not defense. Conversely, Final Fantasy III for NES has no penalties for dual-wielding, and shields are weak anyway, so it's always advisable. Final Fantasy XI goes nuts with this, having players not only get Dual Wielding, but also one of the best defensive spells in the game through the Ninja job. And with Dual Wielding being more effective than 2-handed weapons by a large margin, until a certain patch...
  • It's also inverted in Final Fantasy II, as a pure caster is advised to dual wield shields.
  • In Final Fantasy III, it's utterly broken... and probably explains why usually only Ninjas or certain characters can Dual-Wield in future games. (With a few exceptions). Just about every single weapon in the game can be dual-wielded... sure, with fists it makes sense, and knives and swords, but characters will eventually start getting insane amounts of hits with bells, books, staves, and even spears. Yes, even staves and spears can be dual-wielded.
  • Zidane from Final Fantasy IX equips knives and swallows. Whenever he equips a knife, he wields the equipped weapon in one hand and pulls out another basic knife to wield in his other, sort of hitting with both daggers at once. (It's just for show — you can't actually dual-wield two different knives.)
  • Judge Gabranth from Final Fantasy XII dual-wields a sword and dagger that combine into a sweet bladed staff. In fact, dual-wielding seems to be the de facto Archadian Elite fighting style. All of the Judges Magister, as well as Larsa Solidor, never go into battle without an ornate sword/mace/measure in each hand.
  • Final Fantasy Tactics Advance has a passive skill for dual-wielding, but only Humes can learn it, and it's the most expensive one in terms of AP. On the other hand, it also allows you to learn two skills from weapons at once. For some reason, the sequel also allows all characters to dual-wield shields (if they could use shields at all). This can be surprisingly useful for mages.
  • Dual-wielding while using the opportunity command, Flurry!, can make your unit hit the enemy four times since the action is two hits and the other two hits are from your dual weapons.
  • In Final Fantasy Tactics, ninjas can naturally dual-wield, and have a passive ability that can be learned so a character can do it even in other classes.
  • The Thief Dressphere in Final Fantasy X-2. While not the strongest, she can chain two attacks together.
  • Gilgamesh from FFV and FFXII septa- and octa-wields weapons. Its effectiveness is... unsurprising.
  • In Dissidia Final Fantasy, Bartz dual-wields his allies' weapons in certain normal attacks as well as in his Ex Burst. The most memorable case, though, is his Moment of Awesome right before his fight with Exdeath, wherein he is serious◊.
  • In Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, Cloud owns six swords (none of which could exactly be described as small) which are stored in his motorcycle. These Fusion Swords are variously used singly, dual wielded in pairs, or locked together to form even bigger swords.
  • Yazoo from the same movie gets bonus points for dual wielding a pair of gunblades. That possess firearm capabilities. He may have quite the feminine face, but damn if he doesn't play White Hair, Black Heart almost as well as Kadaj.
  • In Bravely Default, all characters can dual-wield weapons, but both weapons will suffer a loss of attack power unless that character has the Ninja's "Dual Wield" ability equipped, or is a Ninja themselves (since they inherently have that ability). However, this only applies to physical attack power. Mages who don't care about that sort of thing have no reason not to be dual wielding rods or staves that increase magic damage or healing power since those don't suffer a penalty from dual wielding. A high level Knight ability also allows characters to dual wield shields, turning them into a Stone Wall who can't attack normally and must rely exclusively on the Knight's Shield Bash attack to deal damage... at least until that character gets their Knight to max level, at which point they unlock an attack that deals damage based on their defense rather than their attack, which obviously pairs quite nicely with Dual Shields.
  • Bravely Second brings the Ninja back, but also adds the Charioteer, which allows characters to triple and quad wield weapons by equipping them in the head and armor slots, turning them into a Glass Cannon.
• In Fire Emblem:
  • Assassins wield dual daggers in combat (they are swords in the item menu in the Game Boy Advance games (replaced with actual knives starting with Path of Radiance), but when you see the battle animations, they are clearly daggers). They are used to great effect in the games the assassins appear in, where each time an assassin attacks, there is a chance the unit will instantly kill the target. The Pirate class also dual-wields axes.
  • In the Tellius saga (Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn), there is Altina, one of the Three Heroes and first Queen of Begnion, who Dual Wielded two BFSs (Ragnell and Alondite).
  • However, despite what the animations show, from a pure gameplay perspective, only one weapon can be used as a time. Take for example the Swordmasters in Fire Emblem: Awakening: their sprites show them wielding two swords, but their battle animations only show them ever using one. Fire Emblem Fates has several swords that can be dual-wielded (again, only by Swordmasters), but all they give is a different set of animations.
• An unlockable ability in Fire Starter. The Mutant class, having four arms, dual wields from the start as its unique ability. Unlocking the dual wield ability for the Mutant allows it to quadruple wield certain weapons.
• For the King has various dual weapons, including daggers, hammers, and even maracas. They're treated as a single two-handed weapon; you can't equip two one-handed weapons. They vary in effect and in the stat they're keyed to, but all of them grant boosts to speed and Critical Hit chance.
• Game Master Plus: Elsa's Fighter class and Eloire's Champion class can dual-wield one-handed weapons.
• Gigantic has Tripp who wields a pair of daggers and Lord Knossos who dual wields spears. There's also Mozu who uses three magic wands at once, one in each had and one held by her tail.
• God of War main character Kratos dual wields his Blades of Chaos/Athena/Exile, two small swords attached to his forearms by a Variable-Length Chain each.
• The Hashishin in Gothic 3 are fond of dual-wielding a pair of long, thin curved swords. The nameless hero can also learn to dual wield any two swords of any length, including a flaming sword in one hand and a frost sword in the other. How useful dual-wielding is in combat is somewhat debatable, but it looks very cool.
• In Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas the protagonist, CJ, gains the ability to dual wield Submachine Guns, Pistols and Sawn-off Shotguns once he achieves the skill level of 'Hitman' for each weapon. This slightly decreases the accuracy of each shot, and also saps ammo really, really fast (Sawed-Off Shotgun, we're looking at you). While it isn't the best weapon to use on generic enemies, they come in handy for boss fights or situations in which a big target needs to destroyed quickly, a moving car, for instance.
• Guild Wars:
  • Daggers in Guild Wars are always wielded paired.
  • In Guild Wars 2 every one-handed weapon can be dual-wielded, with some restrictions (for instance, Elementalists, Necromancers and Thieves can dual-wield daggers, but Rangers can only use them in their off-hand). This is especially important for the Thief class, who get a unique attack for every combination of weapons.
• In the MMO shooter Gunz The Duel, in addition to blasting off with Guns Akimbo, characters can choose to Dual Wield using Kodachis, shorter versions of the regular katana sword that most melee players use.
• In the original .hack games, the character class "Twin Blade" is known for equipping two daggers at the same time. In the second .hack//G.U. series of games, the class "Twin Blade" still exists, but other classes also dual-wield weapons. "Tribal Grapplers" can equip certain gauntlets, so they come with paired weapons by default; "Macabre Dancers" wield dual fans.
• Halo:
  • In Halo Wars, the Arbiter dual-wields energy swords. However, the FPS games, while allowing Guns Akimbo, prevent Dual Wielding energy swords mainly because it would either be redundant or drastically overpowered. Same goes for the Gravity Hammer.
  • Rtas 'Vadam (aka Half-Jaw) is shown dual-wielding energy swords in the Expanded Universe.
• Heavy Metal F.A.K.K.² was notable for overlapping with Guns Akimbo through Julie's ability to dual-wield almost any combination of several different guns, swords and shields at the same time.
• In Hellgate: London, dual wielding is one of the skills of the Blademaster. Unusually for this trope, this is actually much slower and clumsier than fighting with one weapon, or even a sword and an off-hand pistol — the advantage is that you're hitting them with two weapons, which, unsurprisingly, does a lot more damage than just one, as well as being able to hit with two different damage types and stack mod effects.
• Hero of Sparta has Ishtar's Tears in the first game, two light scimitars which you use simultaneously to slice and dice through mooks, twice as fast.

Examples I—L

• Infinity Blade II introduces dual wielding weapons. While they disable blocking, you gain 2 extra Stamina to compensate and you can continuously chain combos for a greater damage potential.
• Jade Empire:
  • Death's Hand wields two swords. The off-hand weapon is the size of a reasonable sword and the main-hand one is even larger. It is possible for the player character to use these as well, though if memory serves it needs to be modded in.
  • There are still at least two other styles in which you dual-wield weapons. Namely, Crimson Tears, in which you dual-wield swords, and Tang's Vengeance, in which you dual-wield axes.
  • Black Whirlwind, the Ax-Crazy brute, wields two axes about half your size. Naturally, he is badass.
• Pit in Kid Icarus: Uprising does this. He has a bow that can be split into two swords, and claws equipped on both hands.
• In Killer Instinct 1, Black Orchid fought with twin laser swords, each capable of producing two "blades". When KI 2 rolled around, she'd swapped to a pair of glowing tonfa. One of her opponents in the second game, Maya, was an Amazon warrior with a pair of broad-bladed knives.
• Kingdom Hearts:
  • The first thing we learned about Roxas, way before we even knew his name or that he was Sora's Nobody, was that he could wield two Keyblades at once. Much later, we learned he could only do it briefly, as it was triggered when his anger at Xion's death unlocked Ven's Keyblade.
  • In Kingdom Hearts II, three of Sora's Drive Forms allow him to wield two Keyblades at once. Interestingly, the style of dual-wielding varies with the Drive Forms: Valor Form has Sora wield one Keyblade in each hand, Master Form has him hold one Keyblade in his right hand and telekinetically control the other, and Final Form has him magically controlling both Keyblades. And in the Roxas fight in Final Mix, Sora can steal both of Roxas's Keyblades, allowing him to Tri Wield. While it seems that Sora can't dual-wield without an explosive clothing transformation, Word of God from Tetsuya Nomura is that Sora has the potential to dual-wield naturally since so can Roxas; it's just that Nomura thought it would be better if Sora can only dual-wield via Drive Forms as a special treat.
  • Elsewhere in the Organization: Xaldin wields six lances at once using his wind powers, Xemnas has a pair of "ethereal blades", and Larxene has four knives per hand.
    • Samurai Nobodies usually wield two katanas, but one of their attacks is a combo that involves telekinetically swinging the two sheaths as if they were swords.
  • Ventus in Birth By Sleep splits his keyblade into six swords of light in his Wingblade Attack Style, although since he only has two hands he can only swing two at a time (aside from his combo finisher, wherein they spin around him like some kind of deadly wheel). His final move stabs all six swords forward at once before self-destructing them in an explosion of Holy energy.
  • Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep has the Superboss Young Xehanort uses a pair of ethereal blades in a Reverse Grip. It also briefly makes a reappearance for his boss fight in Kingdom Hearts 3D [Dream Drop Distance] when he stops using his Keyblade to charge up a time rewind.
  • Kingdom Hearts III mostly drops Dual Wielding as a mechanic, instead making nearly all of Sora's Keyblades a different kind of Morph Weapon. When Oathkeeper and Oblivion return via DLC, however, Sora can enter Double Form to use them both at once.
• In the online game Kingdom of Loathing, the Seal Clubber ability "Double Fisted Skull Smashing" allows one to do this; provided it is with one-handed weapons of the same type (melee, ranged, etc.). Damage bonuses only apply to the mainhand weapon so the damage increase isn't that significant, but having another weapon's enchantments can be quite useful. An Item Of The Month is a "Disembodied Hand" that acts as your Familiar which can wield a third weapon for you.
• In Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, several weapon types are dual wielded:
  • Daggers (used by Finesse builds) have low damage but are the fastest hitting weapons in the game and are well suited for doing a lot of damage to a single target.
  • Faeblades (also used by Finesse builds) aren't quite as fast as Daggers but make up for it with higher damage and more crowd control abilities.
  • Chakrams (used by Sorcerer builds) are an effective mid-range weapon that is well suited for dealing with multiple enemies at once. They aren't quite as effective when dealing with lone powerful foes, especially if said foes have high elemental resistance.
• Knuckle Heads: Half of the fighters on the roster use a set of two weapons. Rob Vincent uses a set of dual tonfas, Gregory Darrell uses a pair of axes, and Claudia Silva wears a pair of clawed gauntlets.
• Krut: The Mythic Wings have you playing a badass eagle-man warrior who wields two massive swords on each hand at all times.
• Captain Homard of La Pucelle: Tactics wields twin rapiers.
• In The Last Remnant:
  • the hero can be equipped to dual-wield full-sized weapons.
  • Sovani, a reclusive race of four-armed humanoid felines, are able to dual-wield, quad-wield, or dual-wield with two-handed weapons (a pair of great swords, or polearms, etc.).
• League of Legends:
  • Olaf dual wields axes. Akali dual wields kamis. Draven throws axes from both hands. Gangplank is an example of Sword and Gun. Shen and Katarina both dual wield short weapons. Miss Fortune and Lucian are examples of Guns Akimbo.
  • And then there's Irelia. She wields a double-edged weapon that opens up into a crossblade to deal armor-piercing damage, but then splits into four daggers that she can throw at enemies with her mind.
• The Emperor from The Legend of Dragoon dual-wields broadswords.
• The Legend of Zelda:
  • Link can dual-wield clawshots in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. Not for fighting, but for puzzles. And for playing Spider-Man. Too bad it can only latch onto metal grating.
  • The elite Gerudo, including Ganondorf, can also wield dual sabres as seen with the later in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker.
  • And in Skyward Sword there is Stalfos and Ghirahim in his second battle. Koloktos, however, gives General Grievous a run for his money with Hex Wielding, six scimitars with six arms.
  • Ganondorf in Hyrule Warriors wields a pair of great swords.
• Lie of Caelum: Hitoshi wields two swords and is skilled enough to keep up with Flow ability users, despite not having a Flow ability himself.
• Light Fairytale: Kuroko wields a pair of gloves while Kid wields twin daggers. This means they have two weapon orb slots and can enhance their physical attacks further by stacking elemental orbs.
• The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age: Morwen is a member of the Rohirrim who wields double axes.
• Lunia features Asuka, a girl in a school-girl themed outfit who dual-wields two katanas and looks completely badass when you're playing her. Unfortunately, you have to pay to play as her.

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• MapleStory: Mostly averts this by having everyone wield one weapon, regardless of how many hands it needs to be held. Any off-hand items are shields. However, there are a couple of Bandit shields that are appear to be second daggers. They increase attack power and look like they're also striking the enemy along with the user's main dagger. Now played straight with the Dual Blade subset of thieves.
• Mass Effect 3: Introduced the omni-blade, an upgrade to your standard omni-tool that can be used to stab people. Most Sentinel variants in multiplayer wield two of these.
• Mech Runner: The XP-41 can dual-wield melee weapons against enemy robots.
• Mega Man Zero: Zero always seems to have two Z-Sabers in the official art, but never in actual play. Same goes for the Recoil Rod in Zero 3. The recurring villain Harpuia also wields two blades. When you get the Biometal based on him in Mega Man ZX, you have them too; you get a combo attack if you swing them alternately.
• Might and Magic 6 and 7: Dual-wielding is available to anyone who can become Dagger Expert (anyone but a Cleric) or Sword Master (varies), either of which skills allows the named weapon to be wielded in the left hand while any one-handed weapon is used in the right. In Might and Magic 9, a Gladiator can become a Grandmaster of Spear and so dual-wield spears or even halberds.
• Minecraft Dungeons: Some types of weapons come in pairs and are held like this, such as daggers or sickles.
• Mitsumete Knight: One of the Eight Generals of the enemy mercenary brigade Valpha-Valaharian, Rinanore of the Ice and Fire, wields two swords, and she even embues one of them with ice magic, and the other with fire magic, when using her Limit Break.
• Monster Hunter: This is the style of the Dual Swords class. Although as the series has gone on, the more appropriate name is Dual Blades as the weapons aren't necessarily always a pair of swords — alternative forms for this weapon class include clubs, hatchets, kama sickles, steel war fans, and Wolverine Claws.
• Mortal Kombat: Kitanna and her sister Mileena fight this way, the former with metal war fans and the latter with sai daggers.
• Namco × Capcom: Reiji Arisu. As of Project × Zone he wields, in concert, three katanas, a revolver, and a shotgun, all in what's best described as iaijutsu style. What he carries in his off-hand is best described as a man-portable weapon rack.
• Neptunia: A few characters in the series. IF (katar punching daggers and gauntlets with Wolverine Claws), Cyberconnect2 (daggers), MarvelousAQL (katanas), and Adult (Ultra Dimension) Neptune (swords).
• NetHack: Your character can "train up" in dual-wielding skill (wearing a shield or wielding a two-handed weapon is also an option.) The best weapons to combine, if any, depends on which character-class you've chosen. In homage to the historical fact noted above, Samurais start the game with two swords.
• Ninja Gaiden: The Sigma Updated Re-release of the Xbox remake introduced the paired katana set known as the Dragon's Fang and Tiger's Claw. The proper sequel added twin tonfa and the wrist-and-foot-claws Falcon's Talon. Near the end, Ryu also uses the True Dragon Sword and the Blade of the Archfiend together the same way he does the Dragon's Fang and Tiger's Claw.
• Nocturne (RPG Maker): Has Reviel, who can equip any combination of long swords and short swords. There are also some familiars who dual wield daggers, though familiars don't have any options for equipping weapons like the main characters.
• No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle: Travis gets a beam katana two-set called the Rose Nasty. The one he holds in his left hand is shorter than the right hand one. It's also the fastest beam katana in the game, although it's also the weakest.
• No More Room In Hell: If you found a Maglite, you can dual-wield it with a handgun or a one-handed melee weapon, something not possible with the Zippo that survivors have by default. This combination is very useful since the game features so many dark spots, and it keeps the smaller, less powerful weapons relevant even late in a campaign.
• Nuclear Throne: Steroids utilizes his massive strength to hold and fire two weapons at once, whether they're firearms or melee weapons, or both.
• Onechanbara:
  • Aya can switch between single- and dual-sword styles almost instantly through the Stance System.
  • Kagura from Onechanbara Z/Z2 is a dual-wielder by default. Even better, she also dual-wields a pair of daggers connected to an elastic rope. Apparently it's a great crowd control weapon.
• Path of Exile: Dual wielding serves as a middle ground between weapon & shield combo and two-handed weapons. Dual wielding grants a bonus to attack speed and block chance. The only restriction is that you cannot dual wield both a melee and ranged weapon. Certain skills let you attack with both weapons and there are effects that only apply to weapons on the off-hand. Previously, you were able to only attack with your main hand weapon and use your off-hand weapon purely as a Stat Stick.
• Persona
  • In Persona 2: Eternal Punishment, Baofu technically dual-wields coins, which he throws so hard that they've essentially got the power of bullets.
  • Persona 4's Yosuke uses knives in each hand. "Knives" is subjective here, because they can include everything from machetes, to kitchen knives, to pipe wrenches, to pinwheels, ears of corn, or dead fish.
  • Persona 4: Arena Ultimax's Sho Minazuki dual wields a pair of katanas with a serrated edge near the hilt.
• Phantasy Star: Sometimes featured this trope.
  • Several player characters from Phantasy Star II, III and IV, for example, can dual-wield knives, claws or slicers, and there's even a few small guns to dual-wield. Magic-users can dual-wield shields or emels — and still have enough attack techniques and skills to make them useful.
  • In Phantasy Star Online, all Daggers are dual-wielded. The game also has twin Sabers as well.
  • Phantasy Star Universe finally allows the character to wield one dagger, and introduces Twin Claws as well.
  • Phantasy Star Online 2 has Twin Daggers for Fighters and Dual Blades for Bouncers.
• Planescape: Torment: Annah dual-wields punching daggers (and, judging by the combat animations, her feet, though the game rules don't cover that).
• Pokémon has many examples that fall in this trope:
  • Scyther has sickle-like claws for slashing foes. When it evolves into Kleavor, its claws turn into stone axes.
  • Gallade has a Blade Below the Shoulder on each of his arms, using them to fight in battle as swords.
  • Dewott wields two sharp shells called scalchops. Its evolution Samurott has those shells develop into proper blades called seamitars.
  • Conkeldurr wields two thick concrete pillars, which it uses in combat and also double as walking sticks.
  • Bisharp is similar to Gallade except that the blades are retractable, making Bisharp even more deadly. Its pre evolved form Pawniard have its arms melded together by knife blades rather than having fingered hands.
  • Escavalier has two lances, each attached to one of its arms.
  • Doublade is literally two living swords that coordinate attacks via telepathy.
  • Ceruledge has swords made of fiery ghost energy for arms.
• Prayer of the Faithless: As his character description, says, Reyson can equip two weapons of any type, giving him access to all weapon Drives in the game:
  Years of experiences traveling the world has given Reyson extreme proficiency in multiple fighting styles. He can not only pick up and use any weapon he can get his hands on, but can wield two of them at once.
• Prince of Persia:
  • Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time: The Prince dual-wields a sword and the Dagger of Time, the latter of which is the only one to off enemies for about 90% of the way.
  • Prince of Persia: Warrior Within. Here the Prince wields a permanent sword in one hand and can pick up a variety of swords, axes, and knives from defeated enemies to use in his other hand. He can also ditch the off-hand weapon by throwing it at someone (often for a one-hit kill), and use his now free hand for grappling moves.
• Princess Maker: In Refine, Martial Arts Tournament competitor, "twin bladed swordswoman Coela Canth".

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• QUESTER: All Questers can equip two different weapons at once. However, if one of those weapons happens to have the Dual Wielding passive skill, they get a bonus Attack Point if they make sure their other weapon matches the first one's type. As powerful abilities tend to require multiple Attack Points, this can make a bigger difference than it sounds.
• RemiLore: Lost Girl in the Lands of Lore: One type of Sutole mecha-monster holds a hammer in both hands.
• Riding Fight, an arcade Beat 'em Up by Taito, has one boss who wields a chainsaw in each hand.
• In Rift, all warriors technically can dual-wield, but it's paragons who are the masters of the art. And as rogues can only use one-handed weapons, dual-wielding is also their basic set-up. This distinction has been lost in recent updates. Now any warrior can use any combination of dual-wielding, wielding two-handed weapons, or using a single-handed weapon and shield to varying degrees of effectiveness. Also, contrary to the information provided on the class page, the Paragon's weakness is not fighting a healer (who can be stunned or interrupted) but fighting more than two enemies, as their area of effect power is almost nonexistent. A Warlord talent allowing them to Block without a shield puts them in a slightly better position as dual-wielders than Paragons.
• Rise of the Kasai features Tati and Grizz, who dual wield knives as their primary weapons.
• R.O.H.A.N. Online has this as a feature of the Human Knight, Dhan Assassin and Dekan Dragon Fighter classes. Human knights can use a one-handed weapon in one hand and a dagger in the other (they have to be moved into the shield slot), but the dagger loses about 80% of its power this way. Dekans can do this with their Zhens, as one of their skills allows them to split the Double Weapon into two swordlike halves for dual-wielding, losing a bit of attack power but increasing attack speed. And the Dhans have a special two-handed weapon which is basically a brace of katars, one in each hand. And the upcoming Giant race is going to have true dual-wielding (a one-handed weapon in each hand) as a feature.
• Rune Factory:
  • One of the weapon options in Rune Factory 3 is Dual Blades. Seriously awesome. Especially since you can dual wield a pair of leeks. Though its effectiveness is called into question by the fact that it completely negates all defense gained from a shield. On the other hand, it's also the fastest weapon.
  • Returns in Rune Factory Oceans as Aden's default weapons skill. One cutscene has Aden hold off a monster with the dual blades and then kick it in the chest Leonidas-style. Shame you can't do it in-game, of course.
  • Rune Factory 4 also has this. Plus, if you upgrade your shield with a dragon scale, you'll still receive half of the shield's stats with dual blades, making it a more viable option compared to the previous game.
• In RuneScape:
  • Most one-handed weapons have off-hand equivalents to allow two weapons to be wielded at once. This allows players to attack with both weapons at once for increased damage, even mixing and matching combat styles (such as dual wielding a sword and a crossbow), and enables certain combat abilities that can only be used with dual wield setups.
  • In the old days of RuneScape before the Evolution of Combat update, dual wielding worked differently. It was only available to melee warriors, through the use of defenders, knives that go in the shield slot. However, they weren't actually used in the fight, instead offering strength bonuses instead of defensive. Nowadays, they are actual weapons that provide a tradeoff of damage output for defense, and also offer access to both dual wield and shield abilities.
  • Metal claws, along with the Barrows weapon "Torag's Hammers" were a downplayed example of dual wielding, as they were considered single two-handed weapons, but the player would attack with both of them at once. The aforementioned Evolution of Combat update split claws into separate main-hand and off-hand versions, and changed Torag's hammers into a two-handed maul.
• In Saints Row: The Third and its sequel, Saints Row IV, dual wielding is a purchasable ability which is unlocked once the player reaches a certain level. Only Pistols and Submachine Guns can be dual-wielded, though.
• Ichiro Ogami from Sakura Wars does this with his katanas. This, of course, means his Humongous Mecha dual-wields katanas as well. Same thing applies to his nephew Shinjiro Taiga, and his successor Seijuro Kamiyama. The New York NY OVA reveals that both Ichiro and Shinjiro were taught the technique by Ichiro's older sister (and Shinjiro's mother) Futaba.
• In the Samurai Shodown games:
  • Yagyu Jubei wields a daisho, the proper Samurai's armaments consisting of a katana and a wakizashi. The shorter wakizashi is held in his left hand and is generally used for quicker attacks while the katana is held in his right and delivers the stronger attacks, including many of the special moves. However, Jubei uses the wakizashi to set up the Yagyu Shingan-to from the second game onwards.
  • Yoshitora from Samurai Shodown 5 easily outshadows him: he carries 7 katanas with him, each of them used with a different special move with the seventh being a nodachi which he can only use after connecting with every other special move at least once. He uses all of them in sequence in his Zetsumei Ougi. On the other hand, he rarely actually uses more than one at a time.
• Various characters in Samurai Warriors and Dynasty Warriors dual-wield. On the Dynasty Warriors side, Lu Xun in previous installments fought with two short swords and Liu Bei's revamped moveset in 6 gives him two long swords. After Cao Pi got his own moveset and character design he used a "dual blade" which split into two long swords that he dual wields for some of his special attacks. Probably the most over the top is Pang De who dual-wields pair of halberds. Sun Ce also uses a pair of tonfas.
• Sengoku Basara (or the localized version Devil Kings) had several of these. Most notable are Sanada Yukimura (Scorpio) and Date Masamune (Azure Dragon). Yukimura dual-wields spears as tall as he is. Masamune typically fights with a single katana, but carries five more. His limit break lets him temporarily use "Dragon Claw" stance, where he wields all six swords, by holding them in between his knuckles. His special moves also allow him to wield three or six at a time.
• In the Hebijo story mode of Senran Kagura: Burst, some enemies will fight with a sword in each hand and spin their torsos to attack. Homura wields six swords at once (three in each hand) until she becomes Crimson Homura, who will solely use her seventh sword unless performing the x button special attack.
• In Septerra Core, Marduk does this with his Daemon Swords in the game's lore (but Corgan and Selina don't when they get them in the endgame), and Badu does this with his giant knives as well.
• Shania dual wields a pair of hatchets/axes in Shadow Hearts: From The New World.
• Shaiya's Fighters and Warriors can dual-wield swords and axes as one of their primary styles (the others being weapon-and-shield, two-handed weapon, or spear).
• Shantae and the Seven Sirens: The Empress Siren can summon a pair of scimitars to throw, and when they return, she holds one in each hand for a bit.
• Vyse in Skies of Arcadia uses dual cutlasses. Because he's a pirate. The second sword, however, is a tonfa-like weapon that isn't used in normal attacks.
• Soma Spirits: In the original version, Soul is shown dual wielding swords in the Start Screen.
• Knuckles, in the role of Sir Gawain, in Sonic and the Black Knight wields a pair of butterfly swords called Galatine.
• The Soul Series games have numerous examples, including Voldo, Talim, Taki (starting in Soulcalibur), Cervantes (although he uses two different weapons as opposd to two of the same), Hilde (also uses two different weapons), Algol (technically), and Li Long (only in Soulcalibur III). Yoshimitsu also uses multiple swords for some moves (the second sword being named the "Fuma-ken"). Maxi also has a Weapon Demonstration in Soulcalibur where he uses two nunchaku but does not use two normally.
  • Yoshimitsu only gained the second sword starting in Soulcalibur IV, which is a result of his Tekken counterpart also gaining a second sword in Tekken 6 (so more moves could be shared between them).
• In StarCraft Protoss Zealots wield two psi-blades. Though Dark Templar use a single Warp blade instead (wrist-mounted like psi-blades in the first game, on double-headed scythes in the second.) In Starcraft II Legacy Of The Void, after Zeratul's death Artanis starts dual-wielding his warp blade along with one of his own psi-blades.
• Star Ocean:
  • Fear Mell/Phia Melle in Star Ocean fights with dual daggers. Which she throws simultaneously. And then directs with telekinesis. And then pulls back to her hands. In other words, she gets four attacks when everyone else gets one.
  • In Star Ocean: The Second Story Ashton fights with two swords. It's also worth noting that he has two dragons grafted to his back which actually perform one of his most powerful moves so technically he's dual wielding dragons as well.
• The Hero in Suikoden IV.
  • And the Hero in Suikoden II, though here he dual-wields tonfa. It's still pretty badass.
  • Most characters in Suikoden Tierkreis who can use swords can do this, with game-breaking results considering that most swords are only slightly less powerful than two-handed weapons.
  • Yuber apparently wasn't content with just his BFS King Crimson and apparently split it into two katana-like weapons between the second and third titles.
• Suiko Enbu (AKA Outlaws of the Lost Dynasty): Some characters on the roster of this weapons-based fighting game employ the use of two weapons at once. These are Hu San Niang (scimitars), Dai Zong (sais), Li Kui (axes), and Wu Song (tonfas).
• Super Robot Wars:
  • The R-Blade in Super Robot Wars: Original Generation 2 has dual-bladed tonfas. The ART-1 in Original Generations/Original Generation Gaiden upgrades to chainsaw tonfas (and carries two knives for good measure). Both also use dual pistols. Not surprisingly, their initial pilot is one of the biggest Ascended Fanboys ever.
  • In Super Robot Wars W, the Valhawk uses its Laser Blade to effectively maul the enemy. Then it finishes by pulling out a second sword and slashing through the stunned target before flying off.
• Super Smash Bros. Brawl has characters do this with certain items, if they already use a weapon normally (such as Link or Marth).
  • One of the more hilarious versions has King Dedede swinging two hammers around like a kid hopped up on 50 tons of sugar, all while a tinny 8-bit song is playing.
  • Pit also dual-wields normally, using two blades that can be combined into a bow.
  • And subverting the spirit of the trope while following the letter, the player actually can use two weapons at once if they're playing as the Ice Climbers. Having a Beam Sword and a Star Rod at the same time is amazingly awesome.
• In the MMORPG Tales of Pirates, the Crusader class can Dual-Wield. The result of this is that 75% of all PCs are Crusaders...
• The Tales Series:
  • Lloyd in Tales of Symphonia. Actually lampshaded, as Kratos mentions how using two longswords goes against the way swords are meant to be used, and Lloyd reveals that he's using them simply because of the Rule of Cool — as the opening quote makes apparent, he thinks more swords means more power. Hilariously this leads to Kratos giving Lloyd what the latter thinks is a "look of pity." Amusingly, this is actually justifiable. Like most main characters in the setting, Lloyd uses an Amplifier Artifact called an Exsphere, which boosts his strength and dexterity to superhuman levels: meaning that he actually can dual wield without (most) of the usual drawbacks. His birth father is later revealed to be an angel, as well as his Exphere being a special one from the "Angelus Project", further justifying his abilities there.
  • In the sequel, Dawn of the New World, Richter uses a single-edged sword and an axe.
  • Judas in Tales of Destiny 2 dual-wields a sword and a slightly long dagger. Later, in the previous game's remake, Leon Magnus is retconned into fighting like this (with a different stance and moveset) since he pretty much is Judas, although in Leon's case he uses a standard length knife in one hand and Chaltier in the other. Originally Leon simply used Chaltier on his own with an shield optional.
  • Spada Belforma, Tales of Innocence's lancer, dual-wields the same way Lloyd does, but is more serious about it than his predecessor.
  • Kunzite of Tales of Hearts wields two katars. And has two additional blades mounted on flexible arms sprouting from his back. Chlorseraph, an early boss in the second half, also dual-wields giant green cleavers, and later teams up with his twin brother Clinoseraph, who dual-wields shields. Chalcedny, near the end, gets away with wielding a shortsword in one hand and, somehow, his trademark BFS in the other. Galando from the R version dual wields axe-machete objects that can be thrown like boomerangs.
  • Ludger from Tales of Xillia 2 starts off wielding a pair of swords before he gains the ability to switch to other weapons. His older brother Julius does the same, and is the one who taught him his fighting style.
  • Rose in Tales of Zestiria dual wields assassin daggers, one in each hand.
  • Discussed in Tales of Vesperia. Yuri notes how his artes behave differently depending on whether he uses a sword or an axe, so Judith suggests he just use both together.
• Artio the Suebi princess from Tears to Tiara 2 dual wields swords, with a lot of double slashes and many different spin attacks.
• Tekken: Kunimitsu II uses a kodachi and wakizashi combo (also known as a daisho).
• The Tiamat Sacrament: Kelburn can equip two Rune Blades, which allows him to get different skills depending on the combinations.
• Titan Quest: The Warrior Mastery has a focus on dual wielding, with its Dual Wield passive unlocking dual wielding, and its demonstration picture showing a warrior wielding two swords.
• Hawkeye from Trials of Mana dual-wields a pair of daggers. Since they each count as a separate hit each time he swings, he tends to build up hits for his tech bar faster than most characters.
• Touhou Project character Youmu Konpaku wields two swords in the Musashi style. Notably, one of the swords, the Roukanken, is a katana and the shorter one, the Hakurouken, is a wakizashi.

Examples U—Z

• Linne and Seth in Under Night In-Birth dual-wields with knives. Though Linne uses one broadsword and one small one instead.
• Skarin from Viking: Battle for Asgard dual-wields an axe and a sword. Rather plausible when you consider he usually uses the sword to deflect an enemy attack and use his axe to beheard them before they can recover.
• Lann, one of the main characters of Vindictus, is a dual-wielder who focuses on dodges and lightning-fast combos to deliver serious damage and clear out rooms of mooks. Though he starts out with twin swords, he can upgrade to a twin spear which can be separated for even deadlier attacks.
• In Episode 5 of The Walking Dead: Season One, Lee has to cut a bloody swathe through a horde of walkers. As he starts walking, he sees a large, knife-shaped shard of glass at his feet. At this point, Lee realizes he's lost all feeling in his infected arm's hand (should you have chosen not to lop it off) and picks up the shard of glass to give it a nice squeeze. The blood runs down the glass in his left hand, and he pulls out cleaver with the right hand to methodically stab and chop his way to the Marsh House.
• In Warframe, the Tenno can unlock blueprints for various dual wield weapons, such as two miniature Skana.
• In Way of the Samurai series, dual wielding is a feature since the 2nd game. At first, dual wielded swords are a distinct weapon class with its own moveset. Later in 3 and 4, you can dual wield any two swords you wish, provided you have learned the moves first. These includes dual-wielding huge swords, ninja swords, hammer and tongs, hoes, leeks, and yes, whole tunas.
• Dual Wielding is a skill in Wizardry 8, with several different daggers, swords, axes, sticks, and maces being usable in the off-hand (though these are all smaller weapons). Notably, however, without the skill, off-hand weapons take a huge hit in accuracy, making a two-handed weapon or a shield a generally better idea. Those skilled in dual-wielding, however, gain the usual benefits (extra attacks, and possibly extra status effects).
• Wolfenstein 3-D: Spear of Destiny has a villainous version: Ubermutant, the boss of Level 16, wields a knife in each of its four hands. Yes, this is a game where the main weapons are guns. He has one of those, too.
• Quite a few of the classes and major characters in World of Warcraft can dual-wield various weapon types.
  • The specializations that focus on dual-wielding are the Frost death knight, Enhancement shaman, Windwalker monk, and Fury warrior, as well as both demon hunter specializations (Havoc and Vengeance) and all three rogue specializations (Assassination, Outlaw, and Subtlety). Assassination and Subtlety rogues dual-wield daggers, while the others use one-handed swords, axes, maces, glaives, or fist weapons. Fury warriors are a special case, as they dual-wield two-handed weapons.
  • Shivarra demons are Multi-Armed and Dangerous, using many weapons.
  • Edwin Vancleef, leader of the Defias Brotherhood, dual wields scimitars.
  • Rexxar and his brethren Beastmasters fight with twin axes, as do most of the untamed Troll creeps (though trolls usually throw them).
  • Illidan Stormrage dual-wielding his so-called warglaives, which are also examples of Double Weapon, which means Illidan uses four blades at once. Yeah.
  • King Varian Wrynn was once split into two people. His two selves were later given the magical swords Shalla'tor the Shadow Render and Ellemayne the Reaver. When they merged back into a single person, the swords also fused together to become Shalamayne. During his final battle in Legion, Varian demonstrates the ability to separate Shalamayne into Shalla'tor and Ellemayne so he can dual wield them.
• Monolith Soft's Xeno games tends to have this.
  • In Xenogears Billy Lee Black standard attacks has him juggling two handguns.
  • KOS-MOS in Xenosaga tends to dual wields two gatling guns at times and she does it again with Ether Cannons in Xenoblade Chronicles 2.
  • Fiora from Xenoblade Chronicles 1, these are the only weapons she can carry: she always uses twin daggers, bonus points for employing an inverse grip. When she gets mechanized, she swaps to dual swords.
    • The Final Boss also does so wielding his Monado and the Mechonis's Monado in tandem.
    • Mumkhar wields a pair of Wolverine Claws. The fact Metal Face also does is one of the bits of Foreshadowing they are one in the same.
  • In Xenoblade Chronicles X, the Commando class and its 4 sub-classes can equip dual pistols and dual swords. This is also seem to be Elma's fighting style. Some concept art and Elma's appearance in Xenoblade Chronicles 2 deptics Elma wielding two katanas.
  • Xenoblade Chronicles 2 has the Dual Rings and Knuckle Claws weapon classes. Several other unique weapons also reuse the animations from those two, including the DLC Blades Fiona and Elma (just like in their home games) and the New Game Plus exclusive Cessidius, Obrona, and Mikhail. Interestingly, three Blades dual wield themselves during their Blade Special, but only give one of their weapons to their Driver during normal combat, including KOS-MOS, DLC Blade Corvin, and New Game Plus Blade Perdido who quad wields different weapons.
    • Story Blades that dual wield are twin rings Dromarch, twin Whip Sword Brighid, dual scythes Roc, and dual Power Fists Poppi QT in the main game and dual daggers that can transform into guns Minoth in Torna: The Golden Country.
  • Several classes in Xenoblade Chronicles 3 dual wield, the rapier wielding Flash Fencer, the Guns Akimbo Full Metal Jaguar, the axe wielding Machine Assassin, the Power Fist wielding Martial Artist and Soul Hacker, the disc launcher wielding Strategos, the fan wielding Troubadour, the scimitar wielding Noponic Defender, the rings wielding Lapidarist, and the tri-wielding Life Sage.
    • In Future Redeemed, Matthew dual wields Power Fists, his sister Na'el dual wields magic rings, and Rex, the returning protagonist from 2, dual wields Pyra and Mythra's swords.

• The Ys series has some characters who does this.
  • Ys: The Oath in Felghana, Chester during his second boss fight, fights with both his original sword and the Brave Sword.
  • In Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana, the titular Dana uses two "Crescent Moon Blades" as her weapon in her Iclucian form or a pair of short blades in Luminous form.

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