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Avan Strash is a powerful sword technique in the Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai. It is a sword technique created by Avan the legendary hero who use it to defeat the Dark Lord Hadlar 15 years ago.

Description[]

The Avan Strash is a powerful sword technique created by Avan the legendary hero who use it to defeat the Dark Lord Hadlar 15 years ago. This ultimate technique of the Avan-Style, looking like a shining attack, has the ability to slice through anything, can destroy in a single striking attack, which can even kill anyone in a finishing blow.

To use it properly, the user needed to learn and master the Avan Style Sword Techniques, three sword technique namely the Earth Slash, Wave Slash, and Air Slash, which focuses on the training of power, speed, and aura control that focus on one aspect each respectively.

Appearances[]

Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai[]

This the ultimate technique of the Avan-style with which he created to defeat Hadlar 15 years ago, looking like a shining attack. To use it properly, it is needed to learn Earth, Sea and Sky techniques with a weapon, combining Power, Speed and Aura control. With the sword it would be the Earth Slash, Wave Slash and Air Slash.

It exists in two variants: the Avan Strash Arrow, which creates a long-range air projectile attack and the Avan Strash Break, which is a direct hit of the sword.

Dai and Hyunckel learned only the Earth Slash and Wave Slash, and thus their Avan Strash was incomplete.

After Dai managed to learn the Air Slash and thus the complete version, he learned the Arrow version through the Book of Avan with the help of Nova. Dai created the Avan Strash Cross which combines the Arrow and Break type so that the opponent receives both at exactly the same time and creating an attack about 5 times as strong as the usual Avan Strash. It requires inhuman reflexes from a Dragon Knight to be performed.

It can be combined with a spell by Dragon Knights by using their Magic Sword Coup de Grâce. Dai used the Zap Strash by combining it with Zapple and the Giga Strash by combining the Avan Strash with Gigabreak which itself is a Magic Sword coup de grâce combining a sword attack with Kazap.

During the final battle against Vearn, Dai uses his completed Dragon Crest to its fullest power and potential by transmitting all of his magical power into his own sword, creating the Final Strash, a stronger version of the Giga Strash (however, it was never named).

Jump Force[]

All three versions are used by Dai in the game.

Dragon Quest Tact[]

Learned by Dai at level 80, it costs 72 MP to use and deals 400% physical Zap damage to all enemies in range. It requires 2 turns to use and can be used 3 times.

Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai - A Hero's Bonds[]

Avan Strash Cross can be obtained if one get's the Sword of Dai weapon.

Trivia[]

  • "Strash" is a coined word from both Strike + Slash or Strike + Crash.[1]
  • Dai's move was localised as "Cross" and used "C" as its initial instead of the original "X", but the upcoming tie-in "Xross Battle" scan battler game seem to indicate a new preferred way of localising this move.

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Other languages[]

Other languages
French Aban Slash (1996)
Avan Strash (2007,AHB)
Avan Strash Cross
German Avan-Strash
Spanish Corte de Aván (1991)
Avan Strash (2020)
Latin American Spanish Unknown
Italian
Dutch Unknown
Norwegian Unknown
Greek Unknown
Portuguese Unknown
Russian Unknown
Chinese Unknown
Korean Unknown

External links[]

Avan Strash in Move Avan Strash in Ability

References[]

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