Project Slayers 2 Breathing Styles
Breathing Styles are the swordfighting techniques of the Slayer path. Each style reframes your moveset, stamina economy, and matchups โ so your pick defines your entire build. Below is every style revealed in early access and developer previews.
Obtaining a Breathing Style
A launch-build walkthrough puts every trainer gate on one line: 5,000 Wen, level 25, 30 Demon Horns and 5 Beast Cores. The horns and cores are night-time drops from demons in caves and in the open, so the material farm rather than the fee is what actually spaces out a first style.
- Direction from spawn: Serpent sits straight down from spawn in front of the bear quest, Insect is east past the butterfly estate under the wisteria tree, Wind is near the bear village, and Thunder is up the mountain behind the bear spawn.
- Thunder is gated twice: its trainer wants the axe and mace, and the set item that unlocks them comes off a boss at a low drop rate, so budget a farm before routing to it.
![[Beginners Guide] PROJECT SLAYERS 2 EVERY Breathing Trainers Locations and Requirements](/images/yt/pIl5BrvFfYM.webp)
Source: trainer walkthrough by Of.Saints (September 14, 2026), transcribed from its captions. Costs and locations are what that build showed - re-confirm them in the live client, since launch-day patches are routine.
Slayers reach level 25 before a Breathing Style becomes available, so the first hours are spent on bandit quests, gear and skill-tree points. Once you unlock a style you keep the clan you rolled at character creation, and the two combine into your build. The game is out now, so the gates below are read from the live client where possible โ trainer locations, quest chains and spin odds are still the most patch-sensitive values on this page, so re-check any of them that decides an hour of your time. How to get a breathing style in Project Slayers 2, in short: reach level 25, farm the trainer materials, then clear the trainer task list.
Every Breathing Trainer Location, From the Released Build
Creator XenoTywalks the full roster in one pass, which is the part the four direction notes above only sample from a single early-access walkthrough. The route column below is transcribed from that run's captions: treat it as directions, not as coordinates.
| Style | Route from a landmark you already know | What the trainer asks for |
|---|---|---|
| Serpent | From the mother-bear area, go straight up the mountain on the same side as the starter zone. | Beast cores or beast horns. |
| Sound | Over the same mountain and then a long climb: gates, a second wall, and a dark cliff above the ocean where the trainer hides at the bottom. Bring stamina for three climbs. | Demon horns (the run quotes ten). |
| Stone | From Urokodaki's house on the waterfall side, follow the ridge down to a temple and climb; the trainer stands next to Stone's trainee. | The mason axe, dropped by the stone trainee standing beside the trainer โ a weapon-class gate, not just materials. |
| Thunder | Down the waterfall from the same house, across the bridge, then up the mountains behind the bamboo until you reach the top. | Not shown in this pass. |
| Wind | From Tengen's spawn, turn left to the waterfall and drop into the secret spot below it. | Not shown in this pass. |
| Water | Straight down from the mother bear, jump the cliff by the water and cross to the house. The trainer is inside โ either hold the interact key while pressed against the wall, or swim in through the underwater entrance below. | Not shown in this pass. |
| Insect | From the starter village follow the ridge across the wall and drop down: the trainer stands at the slayer corpse next to the house. | Not shown in this pass. |
| Flame | The far end of the map: past the reaper spawn and the boulder training, through the gate, over a bridge and behind the house. | Demon horns. |
Every request in this family is the same two gates applied to a different trainer, so the answers are written out here rather than on one page per style. How to get Sound Breathing in Project Slayers: over the same mountain behind the bear spawn and up the long climb past the gates, with ten demon horns as the material gate. How to get Sound Breathing in Project Slayers 2 is that identical climb and the same gate โ the trainer has not moved since launch, so the numbered and unnumbered spellings of the question return one route. How to get Flame Breathing in Project Slayers: the far end of the map, past the reaper spawn and the boulder training, through the gate, over a bridge and behind the house, gated on demon horns again. Project Slayers 2 Stone Breathing and how to get Stone Breathing in Project Slayers 2 are the same route: from Urokodaki's house on the waterfall side, follow the ridge down to the temple and climb, then bring the mason axe that the stone trainee drops. How to get Wind Breathing in Project Slayers 2: from Tengen's spawn, turn left to the waterfall and drop into the secret spot below it โ the same trainer-plus-material pattern as the other launch styles, with the exact material gate not yet shown in this coverage pass, so read what the live trainer asks for when you reach him. Wind sits in A tier as a close-range multi-hit shredder built for posture-breaking brawls. Full Wind Breathing guide โ Thunder, Water, Serpent and Insect follow the same trainer-plus-material pattern in the table above.
One spelling note, because the search data keeps returning both orders: breathing styles Project Slayers 2 and Project Slayers 2 breathing styles describe exactly the same roster. Word order changes nothing here, and there is no second list hiding behind the flipped phrasing.
Source: Kiyoren (creator walkthrough), used to corroborate the Wind trainer route from Tengen's spawn. The exact material gate isn't shown in this clip, so confirm the live trainer's item requirement when you arrive.
Best breathing style in Project Slayers is the superlative form of the same roster question, and it is a question about ordering rather than about a hidden stat: no developer table of damage numbers is published, so every post-launch ranking grades the eight playable styles on kit behaviour instead. Read across those rankings the answer this site gives is Thunder, and for the same reason each time โ its skills start almost instantly, which is hard to react to โ with Sound the closest thing to a consensus second. Project Slayers 2 thunder breathing is also the clearest reminder that "best" is question-dependent: Thunder leads on burst and gap-closing, which is a duelist's answer, while a boss farmer reading the same ladder rewards sustained damage and coverage more. The style-by-style comparison behind this answer is printed on the cross-source tier list rather than being asserted once here.
A second spelling note, because the roster query also arrives without the number: all breathing styles in Project Slayers and all breathing styles in Project Slayers 2 return the same list. Dropping the number does not reach the 2020 original here โ the unnumbered phrase is the brand spelling of this game, which is why one roster answers both.
That answer is dated, and the date matters more than usual this month: on October 5, 2026 one of the three rankings this site compares scrapped its ladder and republished it split into PvE and PvP. Thunder kept its top band there, which is why it is still the answer above, but Water Breathing moved from the bottom band to the top of both new ladders on the back of the largest buff any style has had since launch โ it now stuns on a move that can be used out of hitstun. If you are choosing today and you are not chasing the instant-startup duelist playstyle, Water is the pick the newest evidence supports. The dated comparison, including the placements that did not move, is on the cross-source tier list.
If you are searching how to get demon horns in Slayers 2, or how to get beast cores in Slayers 2, both requests resolve to the same farm. How to get demon horns in Project Slayers 2, and the same question with the number dropped, are one request: one location, one drop table, one route. Two released-build runs point at the same spot: the cave underneath the mother bear. Low-tier demons spawn there in groups of around six, they drop beast cores and demon horns, and a sickle-flail boss in the same cave hands back roughly triple horns. Both runs also recommend bringing two or three players, because the spawn density is what makes the farm fast rather than the drop rate.
A third reading (Fungzy, September 19, 2026), transcribed from the video captions, farms a different spot entirely: drop from the starter town, cross the bridge beside the lake and waterfall, and the village NPCs below drop the core at roughly one in three. The creator sets his spawn in that village before farming, which is the same advice the cave runs give. The two routes sit on this page together on purpose โ it is a disagreement about the best farm, not two names for one place.
Two credible readings disagree on the price. The early-access walkthrough transcribed earlier on this page reports 5,000 Wen plus level 25, 30 Demon Horns and 5 Beast Cores. A post-launch run on a maxed account reports level 25 plus 10,000 Wen and 20โ30 demon horns, with no beast cores mentioned. Both agree on the level gate and on demon horns being the real bottleneck, so budget for the horns first and treat the cash figure as the part most likely to have been retuned after release.
Styles are not finished when the trainer hands them over. The post-launch run puts the style-grind station at the butterfly estate, where you buy gourds at roughly 8,000 Wen each and need somewhere in the region of 400,000โ800,000 Wen to cap one out. The same run flags a Part 1 change worth knowing before you spend: there is no separate breathing barin Slayers 2 โ everything runs on the stamina bar โ and the payoff at the cap is a small health increase plus a movement-style boost, which is a lot of money for a little gain.
- Watch it before you pick, not after: travel is the real cost of a first style, so seeing how far apart the trainers sit is what makes the fee and the material grind above feel worth budgeting for.
- Re-confirm the route on the way: trainer placement is the most patch-sensitive detail on this page, so treat a route that no longer matches the map as a moved trainer rather than a broken guide.
Video verified through the YouTube oEmbed API on 2026-09-19 (title and channel as returned by the platform). Route, gate and cost details above are transcribed from the captions of that run and of one other released-build guide; automatic captions mis-render proper nouns, so where a trainer is named on this page we use the character name the style already points to rather than the caption spelling. Cash figures are the ones the runs quoted and are the first thing a balance patch moves.
Flame Breathing: Every Confirmed Form
A full flame run spells the chain out in one pass: the trainer never hands the style over, it is earned through a set of physical tasks (push-ups, meditation and cutting the boulder), and only after that does the style start gaining mastery and unlocking moves. The run ends at the Final Selection against the hand demon, which is where the mythic flame drops sit.
- The long tail is drop-based: the flame katana, the flame warrior and the ultimate move Purgatory are all described as roughly 1% mythic drops rather than guaranteed rewards, so a flame build is a farm before it is a loadout.
- Training is the gate, not the level: the boulder cut and the other tasks sit in front of the style itself, which is why two players on the same level can be hours apart on flame progress.
Source: XenoTy (September 15, 2026), transcribed from the video captions. Task list, drop rates and boss names are what that build showed - they are launch-week observations, not a developer statement.
Project Slayers 2 Flame Breathing, move by move, from the official showcase by Ouw Productions(2026-08-20). Descriptions follow the developer's own narration.
Beast Breathing: The Update 1 Moveset
Ouw Productions walks the full Beast Breathing kit in the Update 1 showcase. The narration names each move and shows the animation, so the move list below follows the developer's own labels rather than caption guesswork.
- Throwing Strike: hurl both blades into a spinning frenzy; any enemy caught is locked in a stun, dragged along the path, and hauled back when the blades return.
- Crazy Cutting: laugh and taunt an enemy to their face; if they strike during the taunt you teleport above them, slow everything down, and shred everything around you. At close range it doubles as a direct attack.
- Slice and Dice:dive from the sky in a storm of slashes and finish with a cut as you land, with aim assist covering the slower descent. Landing it unlocks a pierce that teleports you to the target wherever they are โ and it doubles as a guard break.
- Palisade Bite: vanish and reappear to sink both fangs in; a flurry of stabs ends with an X-slash that knocks the target back.
- Devouring Rush: hold to charge a relentless spinning barrage of slashes, then release to slam both blades down; on a connecting hit you grab and hurl the enemy into the air and tear them apart as they fall.
Source: Ouw Productions (October 14, 2026), transcribed from the video's official English captions, re-read on October 30, 2026 to add the fifth move. Move names are the developer's own labels; Beast Breathing is an Update 1 style, so confirm its unlock route in the live client.
What the showcase does not give you: a trainer location, a material gate or a level requirement. That is two of the three parts of every other unlock on this page, and none of them appears in the video, so this page does not invent them. Until the style is live and the trainer can be walked to, treat Beast as a kit you can plan around rather than a route you can run.
Project Slayers 2 Beast Breathing, move by move, from the official showcase by Ouw Productions(2026-10-14). Descriptions follow the developer's own narration.
![[Release Prep] Slayers 2 | Flame Breathing Showcase](/images/yt/-OpckIaf83Q.webp)
Flame Katana moveset demo ยท official build, recorded before launch.
Flame Katana forms:
The user dashes forward in a trail of flames, then instantly chains two vertical slashes on contact, launching the target into the air.
The blade ignites and the user leaps forward with a blazing slash that slams into the ground โ a heavy, grounded opener.
A circular slash rips open a vertical flame cyclone. It works both as an M1 counter and as a standalone damaging skill.
Tapping the skill sends a tiger projectile forward; it bites the opponent, then crashes into the ground and explodes.
Holding the skill unleashes a flurry of slashes that takes the shape of a crashing flame tiger โ a longer, committed pressure sequence.
The user engulfs themselves in hellfire, triggers a cascade, dashes through the target and finishes with a cinematic double slash.
Flame From Level One: A Full Mastery Run
One creator takes a fresh slayer to fully mastered Flame Breathing, with the trainer task list shown on camera.
- The Flame task list, on camera: meditation, push-ups, boulder split, aim training, cup training and a flame-trainer fight are all shown in sequence before the style is granted โ a longer gate than the sound route documents.
- Supreme clan alongside the style: the run also rolls the clan the creator calls the strongest Supreme option for slayers, pairing the roster table on the clans page with the mastery grind.
Source: Going From NOOB To PRO In 1 Video! (Project Slayers 2) by PhoenixVids, transcribed from the video captions; title and channel verified through the YouTube oEmbed API on 2026-09-24.
Two More Community Passes: Trainer Route & Breathing Ranking
A filmed trainer-location tour that mirrors the written table on this page, plus a creator tier ranking of every breathing style. Both are post-launch opinions โ trainer placement is the most patch-sensitive detail here, so re-check any route that no longer matches the map.
![[Slayers 2] HOW To GET Your BREATHING STYLE + EVERY SLAYER Trainer LOCATION](/images/yt/OAsCnaMmQMk.webp)
- It starts at the bear area: the walkthrough opens by routing to the mother-bear location, the same first trainer the written table names, then shows the rest of the trainer circuit on camera.
- Beast cores come from beast spawns: the run points at the area where beasts spawn so you can farm the cores a trainer asks for, rather than hunting them one at a time.
- Every style gets a tier: the creator ranks all breathing styles from worst to best, opening with one of the starter styles placed in the bottom tier and arguing each style's strength is situational rather than absolute.
- Read it as opinion, not a lock: the grades are one player's read of the live meta, useful for a first pick but not a developer statement โ the tier table on this page is built from the same reasoning.
Videos verified through the YouTube oEmbed API (titles and channels as returned by the platform), with the caption tracks transcribed for these notes. Automatic captions mis-render proper nouns, so no trainer or style name is spelled out from the transcripts, and letter grades are opinions to confirm in the live client.
Wind Breathing: Every Shown Form
Wind Breathing in Project Slayers 2, as recorded in the official showcase by Ouw Productions(Aug 30, 2026). Form names follow the developer's narration; in-game labels may differ slightly.
Confirmed forms:
A powerful two-hit vertical slash. The first strike stuns and suspends airborne targets, and the heavier second slash launches them backwards.
The user spins rapidly to create a horizontal cyclone of slicing wind that deals continuous damage before a heavier final slash knocks the target away.
A downward slam that unleashes four vertical slashes. If the initial claw connects, pressing the skill again teleports the user above the target for a second purifying claw.
Used at range, a vertical cyclone travels in the aim direction instead of staying on the caster.
Used at close range, the cyclone forms around the user and deals continuous multi-hit damage.
The user leaps up and unleashes three massive slashes. If the final slash connects, they teleport to the target at high speed.
At close range the skill triggers a cut-scene finisher: targets are launched into the air, hit by three massive slashes, then slammed into the ground by the last one.
- โข Three of the seven entries are input variants rather than separate skills โ the same skill behaves differently on tap versus hold, and at range versus close up. Learn both halves of each before judging the style.
- โข Wind has a mobile long-range poke (Rising Dust Storm) and a committed ground finisher (Idaten Typhoon close range), so it can pressure at distance and still close a fight.
- โข The tap version of Dust Whirlwind Cutter suspends airborne targets, which makes it a natural combo extender after any launch.
For a second opinion on where Wind sits against the rest of the roster, this community tier list ranks every Breathing Style and Blood Demon Art shown so far.
![I Ranked EVERY Breathing & Blood Demon Art... [Slayers 2 Tier List]](/images/yt/uF2D27J4NTE.webp)
Creator ranking, not a developer statement โ treat it as one experienced player's ordering.
All Breathing Styles in Project Slayers 2
Ranked by viability, with "best for" reflecting each style's showcased mechanics rather than a raw damage number.
The Project Slayers 2 breathing styles list is short on purpose: every post-launch ranking we can read names the same 8 Breathing Styles backed by 3 Slayer weaponsโ and, importantly, they name the same eight names. Stone Breathing on Slayers 2 is the clearest example of how stable that list is: its developer Q&A showcase is one of the older entries here and it has never left the roster. The cards below are that roster. Sun and Mist are tracked separately at the bottom of this section, because they appear in three published rosters exactly zero times between them.
Thunder Breathing
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Instantaneous gap closer and burst assassin archetype. Thunderclap and Flash pierces blocks at maximum speed.
- Thunderclap and Flash (Sixfold)
- Lightning Ball
- Heat Lightning
- Rumble and Flashing
Water Breathing
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The most versatile balanced style. Features wide AoE defense (Dead Calm) and fluid counter-attacks.
- Water Surface Slash
- Water Wheel
- Drop Ripple Thrust
- Dead Calm (11th Form)
Flame Breathing
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High-impact explosive melee devastation. Every slash leaves lingering burn embers and heavy stagger.
- Unknowing Fire
- Rising Scorching Sun
- Blooming Flame Undulation
- Rengoku (9th Form)
Wind Breathing
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Aggressive multi-hit cyclone pressure. Shreds enemy stamina shields rapidly in close quarters.
- Dust Whirlwind Cutter
- Claws-Purifying Wind
- Clean Storm Wind Tree
- Black Wind Mountain Mist
Sound Breathing
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Dual-cleaver percussion combat. Builds a rhythm gauge on consecutive hits, widening parry windows and detonating explosive micro-bombs that break hyper-armor.
- Bursting Bloom
- Roar
- Exploding Beads (tap / hold)
- Resounding Slashes
- String Performance
Serpent Breathing
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Coiling, whip-like blade arcs built for relentless multi-hit pressure, with a hold-to-grab that breaks blocks. Two of the three published rankings put it at A or S; the third withholds a rank until it can be judged on the same criteria.
- Serpent Slash
- Coil Choke (hold to guard-break)
- Venom Fangs
- Twin-Headed Reptile
- Slithering Serpent
Insect Breathing
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Precision poison-application strikes that bypass heavy demon regeneration. Ranked A by both outlets that place it, and tied to the Kocho clan for the poison payoff.
- No released-build move list published
Stone Breathing
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Hyper-armour heavy style built on a flail and axe. Its attacks are hard to interrupt, which makes it a real PvP option, but it is melee-locked and slower than the faster kits โ every ranking places it in the lower half.
- Volcanic Conquest
- Seismic Burst
- Upper Smash
- Stonewall (tap / hold)
- Arcs of Justice
Sun and Mist are the two styles players most often assume are playable, because they are the two that matter most in the story. All three published post-launch rankings name the same eight styles, and neither of these appears in any of them, so they are tracked here rather than ranked โ if a future patch adds one, it moves up into the roster above.
The progenitor of all breathing styles in the source material, and the one every launch-roster list leaves out. No post-launch ranking names Sun as a playable Slayers 2 style, so treat anything you read about it as inherited from the franchise rather than observed in this client.
Disorientation and clone feints inherited from the source material. Like Sun, Mist is absent from every launched-roster list we can read, so it is tracked here rather than ranked.
Cross-check the rankings on the three-source tier list, which shows where the published style and demon-art placements agree and where they contradict each other. Move names in the cards above are transcribed from released-build footage; automatic captions mis-render proper nouns, so the style a move belongs to is authoritative while an individual spelling may not be.
Stone Trainer Route: A Second Recorded Landmark
This short route starts at the Mother Bear map marker, passes the open-eye boss and follows the uphill path before climbing to Gyorei. The longer trainer loop above approaches from Urokodaki's house instead; they are two approaches to one Stone trainer, not two versions of the style.
Source: Ishiken (September 18, 2026), transcribed from the English captions and verified through YouTube oEmbed on September 25. The automatic captions garble the material names, so this clip is used only to corroborate the route; check the live trainer panel for the current item requirement.
Official Showcase Coverage
Every style the developers have demonstrated on the official channel, newest first. Being shown is not the same as being final โ treat this list as evidence, not as a promise.
| Breathing Style | Official showcase | Our coverage |
|---|---|---|
| Beast Breathing | Oct 14, 2026 | Full five-move kit transcribed above; trainer and material gate not yet published. |
| Sound Breathing | Sep 10, 2026 | Featured in the homepage combat briefing, with the rhythm gauge explained. |
| Wind Breathing | Aug 30, 2026 | Full seven-form breakdown transcribed above, including tap/hold and range variants. |
| Flame Breathing | Aug 20, 2026 | Full six-form breakdown transcribed above. |
| Stone Breathing | Jan 4, 2026 | Demonstrated with a developer Q&A; the cross-source comparison for it sits on the tier list page. |
| Water Breathing | Dec 6, 2025 | Ranked below; showcase predates launch preparation. |
| Thunder Breathing | Nov 21, 2025 | Ranked below. Deputy President Knoxity confirmed Thunder Breathing will feature 2 combat variants. |
The studio confirms Insect Breathing as playable. Available channel uploads predate the Slayers 2 rename, so its evidence status here is roster-confirmed while the showcase table remains reserved for videos published under Slayers 2. See the Demon-side equivalent on the Blood Demon Arts coverage list.
How to get Thunder Breathing in Project Slayers
Identical in both spellings: reach level 25, clear the trainer up the mountain behind the bear spawn, and satisfy his weapon requirement first. Thunder is the one double-gated style in the game โ the trainer wants the axe and mace, and the set item that unlocks them drops from a boss at a low rate โ so budget a farm before you route to it. The full gate-by-gate walkthrough is in the Thunder section above, and its ranking sits on the tier list.
How to get Insect Breathing in Project Slayers
The trainer stands at the slayer corpse by the butterfly estate, reached by heading east from the starter village until the wisteria tree. Beat the level 25 gate first, exactly as with any other style. Two published direction sets describe the walk differently, so the trainer table above keeps both readings rather than picking one; the style itself is unanimous A because its poison bypasses demon regeneration, and its downside is that it plays at knife range.
The trainer table above is built from one creator's released-build pass. Kiyoren walked the same route independently, so where the two disagree on a direction that is a real conflict between sources rather than a transcription slip โ which is exactly why the table keeps both readings instead of picking one and calling it settled.
Water Breathing, and How to Get It
Project Slayers 2 water breathing is the style almost every guide recommends first, so it is worth writing out on its own rather than leaving it as one row of a table.
The trainer is Sakonji Urokodaki, and he is the easiest one to reach in the opening hours: go to the mother-bear cliff and drop into the house below it. There is more than one way in, so a run that cannot find the door can come at it underwater instead. Once you have the style, the forms that come with it are Water Surface Slash, Water Wheel, Drop Ripple Thrust and Dead Calm, the eleventh form.
Two things make it the recommended starting pick. The first is that Dead Calm gives the style a defensive answer no other early kit has, which is what makes it forgiving while you are still learning the stamina economy. The second is narrower but more useful than it sounds: a recorded clear of the Slayer exam says a player without water would have struggled on the exam's parkour section, and the written guides put Water among the styles that make that timer easier. If the level 45 exam is your next milestone, this is the style that carries you through it, and the quest order is on the Final Selection guide.
If you are already thinking about clan synergy, the clan ranking on this site names Urokodaki as the water clan, buffing water damage and cutting stamina cost, with Tomioka named ahead of it as the rarer water option. The gate itself is the same one every trainer charges, spelled out in the table below.
- The unlock is a task list, not a purchase: the run works through training tasks and parkour dungeons before the style is handed over, which matches the pattern every other trainer follows.
- One named fight is part of the gate: the run has to beat Sabito before the moves come with it, so the water route is the one that turns a named duel into a prerequisite rather than an optional detour.
- The moves are then unlocked progressively: the route spends its second half on individual move unlocks rather than a single hand-over, which is why mastery keeps mattering after the trainer is paid.
The released build moved this style twice, and the moves matter more than the launch theorycrafting around them. Water was buffedin the first balance pass โ the same pass that cut Thunder, as recorded on the cross-source tier list โ and a maxed-water run published on September 22, 2026 calls it the best style in the game for single-target and boss damage while agreeing it is not the style for clearing crowds of enemies.
Three details from that run are worth having before you commit to it. The final form is Dead Calm, and it arrives at the end of the mastery track rather than early, so the style is not at its best while you are still unlocking. The clan it pairs with is Tomioka, which the run describes as a legendary clan you can buy outright for roughly 100 spins rather than rolling for. And the mobility people like about it comes from holding the first skill rather than from a dedicated dash, which is the part that changes how the style feels in a chase.
Title and channel read back through the YouTube oEmbed API; route details are the creator's own order of play and the task names a recorded run, not a developer checklist, so treat the sequence as one working path rather than the only one.
How to Get Every Breathing Style: The Gate, Style by Style
How to get thunder breathing in Project Slayers, how to get sound breathing in Project Slayers and how to get insect breathing in Project Slayers all resolve to the same answer, and so do how to get stone breathing in Project Slayers 2, how to get serpent breathing in Project Slayers 2, how to get water breathing in Project Slayers 2 and how to get flame breathing in Project Slayers: one gate, eight trainers. They are answered once here instead of once each.
| Style | What the unlock adds on top of the standard gate | Trainer, in short |
|---|---|---|
| Water | Training tasks and parkour, then a named duel against Sabito | Urokodaki, below the mother-bear cliff |
| Flame | Physical tasks first โ push-ups, meditation and cutting the boulder โ and only then does the style gain mastery | Rengoku, at the far end of the map past the reaper spawn |
| Thunder | A waterfall descent followed by a mountain climb is the walk; the gate itself is the standard one | Jigoro Kuwajima, down the waterfall from Urokodaki's house |
| Wind | A drop into a hidden spot, which is the only unusual part of the route | Sanemi Shinazugawa, left from the Tengen spawn at the waterfall |
| Sound | A long dark climb to an ocean cliff before the trainer is reachable at all | Tengen Uzui, over the mountain from the mother bear |
| Serpent | The trainer asks for beast cores or beast horns on top of the standard materials, so the farm doubles | Up the mountain from the mother bear |
| Insect | A corpse-site trainer rather than a house, past the butterfly estate, with the standard gate behind her | Shinobu, in the released build |
| Stone | Needs the mason axe that the stone trainee beside the trainer drops, so that drop comes before the gate | Gyomei, along the temple ridge past Urokodaki's house |
Who the Sound trainer is โ and who โTengen Uzuiโ is
Tengen Uzui is the Sound Hashira from the Demon Slayer anime, and the trainer table above keeps the name community videos used for it. Guides published after the September 2026 launch instead call the Sound Breathing trainer Tengai, place him in Iceveil Valley, and list Uzuias a clan paired with Sound Breathing (slayer2.org trainer table, updated October 4, 2026; slayers2wiki.com Sound Breathing entry; Roblox Den and Bloxodes Sound unlock guides). One guide describes the trainer only as โTengen-inspiredโ. No developer-published NPC name appears in the sources checked on 2026-11-08, so the in-game name plate is the tie-breaker: read it in your own client before assuming the anime character is an NPC. Other Roblox games (Demon Slayer RPG 2 in 2022, Weak Legacy 2) do use a Tengen Uzui NPC, which is the likeliest reason the name leaks into Slayers 2 searches.
Wording note: how to get breathing in Slayers 2, thunder breathing Slayers 2, how to get thunder breathing in Slayers 2, stone breathing Slayers 2, how to get water breathing in Slayers 2 and slayers 2 demon horns all resolve to the trainer table and the material-farm block on this page; best breathing in Slayers 2 is the ranking question answered on the tier list.
The standard gate behind every row above is the one on this page: 5,000 Wen, level 25, 30 Demon Horns and 5 Beast Cores. The materials are the part that actually spaces the unlock out, because demon horns and beast cores are night-time drops from demons in caves and in the open โ the cave under the mother bear is the farm the community names, and its occupants also drop the beast cores the serpent trainer wants. If the ask for horns is what is blocking you, the demon-horn farm is described on the Slayer vs Demon guide.
Which Breathing Style Should You Pick?
Water โ defensive forms and Dead Calm invulnerability make mistakes forgiving while you learn the engine.
Thunder โ Thunderclap and Flash gives the fastest gap-close and guard-piercing burst in 1v1s.
Flame โ burn pressure keeps demon regeneration pinned and does the work on raid health bars. Sun is not in the launch roster, so it is not offered as a pick here.
Sound โ rhythm parries and AoE reward players who read opponents. The after-image feints people expect to pair with it belong to Mist, which is not in the launch roster.
Where These Placements Come From
The move lists above are transcribed from released-build footage and from the official showcases; the roster itself is the eight names that every post-launch ranking agrees on. Damage numbers and cooldowns are deliberately not published here, because they move with every balance patch and nobody has a developer table. Placements are compared side by side on the cross-source tier list instead of being asserted once.
Compare with the Blood Demon Arts guide or the full Wiki database.
Leveling One Style from a Fresh Account
Creator CarsonOnRBX started a new account and pushed straight to Water Hashira.
- It is a route, not a tour: the run is a straight line from a brand-new account to a ranked breathing style, which is the fastest way to see how a finished style plays.
- Mastery is earned in combat: style levels come from using the moves against NPCs, so a style you enjoy using levels faster than one you only unlock.
- Travel is the real cost: most of the run is moving between trainers and grind spots, so movement unlocks pay for themselves early.
Timings in this video are one creator route inside the Early Access build, recorded before launch tuning; the live client may differ.
What Unlocking Sound Breathing Actually Costs
A full in-client run that starts at character creation and ends with a complete Sound Breathing kit, recorded in the Early Access build.
- Appearance first: the run opens by matching the character to the target Hashira, so cosmetics are part of the intended path rather than an optional extra.
- Four repeatable training tasks: push-ups, meditation, hand training and cutting a boulder are the tasks named in the route, which makes the gate a short grind rather than a single quest turn-in.
- Task pool, per later walkthroughs: boulder splits, meditation, mizu and notos are named in one route, and underwater rocks in Project Slayers 2 appear in several more as part of the same gate. Meditation itself is a prompt minigame โ stand at the trainer spot, hit the button prompts in time, and the bar completes at its peak โ which is how to meditate in Project Slayers 2 without mashing blindly.
- The style levels itself: moves are unlocked by levelling Sound Breathing after that gate, not bought from a vendor, which is the pattern the official showcase implies without stating it.
- A selection trial finishes it: the route ends against a hand-demon encounter, and the creator describes the style-specific katana plus the String Performance ultimate as a low-rate mythic drop from it, quoted at roughly one percent.
Route as played by one creator in the Early Access build and transcribed from the video captions. The quoted drop rate is that creator figure, not a published developer table, and launch tuning can change both the tasks and the reward.
How to Get Thunder Breathing: The Targeted Unlock Route
The route below answers how to get Thunder Breathing in Project Slayers 2: the trainer gate first, then the Zenitsu farm for the headline move. Thunder breathing Project Slayers 2 and Project Slayers 2 thunder breathing are the same question in two orders and both point at this one kit. What the style then unlocks is the level 45 Slayer exam, and its quest order is written out on the Final Selection guide.
A thunder-only run taken to the top of the style in the launch build is the clearest picture of what a finished breathing tree costs. The creator caps the style at 70 mastery, holds every move, and then lists what the remaining grind is actually for: cosmetics and rare drops rather than new buttons.
- Flame Thunder God is a 5% drop: the headline thunder move comes off Zenitsu rather than out of the trainer dialogue, so it is a boss farm instead of a quest reward.
- Two more pieces sit behind the same farm: the thunder katana and the thunder haori complete the set, and the run is only called finished without them because they change appearance rather than damage.
![I Pushed Thunder Breathing To Its LIMIT... [Project Slayers 2]](/images/yt/H0DHCy_gLmY.webp)
Source: JacksBGaming (September 16, 2026), transcribed from the video captions. Mastery caps and drop rates are that creator build at that date and can move with any balance patch.
A full run as Agatsuma, recorded in the Early Access build, whose first goal is a specific style kit rather than a generic Slayer start.
- One goal, pursued on purpose: the run opens by committing to a single style, and the creator treats unlocking it from the trainer as the whole point of the playthrough rather than something that happens along the way.
- Style and clan are one project: the matching clan is rolled before anything else, so the look, the passive kit and the style end up assembled together instead of being picked independently.
- Money is the first wall: a delivery quest chain and a coin grind come before the trainer, which is where a fresh account really spends its opening hour.
- Early prices, as one creator saw them: a plain katana costs a few hundred in-game cash and the better one several times that, and this run hit level 26 while clearing the coin quest line.
Route as played by one creator in Early Access and transcribed from the video captions. Prices and quest payouts are that creator observations rather than an official list, and launch tuning can move both.
Every Trainer Location in One Pass
The trainer table further up this page was assembled style by style. This run walks the whole set in one recording, which is the fastest way to see how close together they actually are.
![[EA GIVEAWAY] ALL BREATHING TRAINER LOCATIONS IN SLAYERS 2](/images/yt/LD78GG_TR2M.webp)
Transcript highlights
Two ways to reset a breathing style: pay 100 Robux, or take the free ore route. The clip also compares that price against resetting a Blood Demon Art, which it reads as the cheaper of the two. The captions triplicate every phrase, so this is a summary rather than a quote, and only the two reset routes are carried into the section below.
- Serpent is the closest trainer to spawn: the run reaches it first by walking past the first NPCs and climbing the mountain behind them, then zooming the camera out to spot the trainer from the ridge.
- The material counts are not uniform: requirements vary by trainer, with level 25 as the common floor and demon horn asks of roughly twenty or fifty depending on which style you are buying.
- Thunder is a daytime trip: the route follows the quest line to the bear village, drops past the boss spawn and then climbs โ and the creator specifically recommends doing it in daylight, which is the same warning the higher-level snow climbs carry.
- Use it as a cross-check, not a replacement: every row in the table above still carries its own source, and where this recording disagrees with a row the table wins, because the table is dated per entry and this is one pass filmed on one build.
Location run by Faldize, transcribed from the video captions. It was filmed for an Early Access giveaway, so the honest reading is that the geography holds and the per-trainer material counts are worth re-checking in your own client.
How to Reset Your Breathing Style
If you are wondering how to reset breathing in Project Slayers 2, there are two routes and neither is free. The paid route is 100 Robux. The ore route collects materials and then buys a breathing-style reset from the relevant NPC, which the developer Q&A (August 2026) confirmed. Treat it as a re-spec cost rather than a daily toggle.
Because breathing styles unlock around level 25, most players only reset once they have committed to a different build, so plan the ores ahead of time.