Metal Legion Guitar

Offensive Artifact. Rock out with your guitar, damaging and applying conditions to opponents around you, then slam the ground, damaging and stunning opponents in the area.

For a short time after using this skill, your first weapon skill is replaced with your stealth attack, even when not stealthed. — In-game description

Metal Legion Guitar

Profession

Thief (skill list)

Specialization

Antiquary

Slot

Profession mechanic

Type

Offensive Artifact

Game link

API

76582, 76591

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Metal Legion Guitar

Offensive Artifact. Rock out with your guitar, damaging and applying conditions to opponents around you, then slam the ground, damaging and stunning opponents in the area.

For a short time after using this skill, your first weapon skill is replaced with your stealth attack, even when not stealthed.

 Damage: 323 (0.8)^?

 Damage: 222 (0.55)^?

 Final Smash: 1,009 (2.5)^?

 Final Smash: 4 (0.01)^?

₃ Metal Legion Guitar (10s): Your first weapon skill is replaced with your stealth attack, even when not stealthed.

 Confusion (8s): 146 Damage, 16 Damage on Skill Use

 Stun: 2 seconds

 Stun: 10.5½ seconds

 Number of Targets: 5

 Pulses: 4

 Interval: 1 second

 Radius: 240

 Defiance Break: 200

 Defiance Break: 150

— In-game description

Related traits

Deadly Arts

• Exposed Weakness — Deal increased strike damage to your target for each unique condition on them.
• Improvisation — Use stolen skills twice. Reduce the cooldown of all equipped utility skills when you steal. Cooldown effect will only trigger if all utility slots are filled and if at least one of your active utility skills is on cooldown. Does not affect inactive sequence skills.

Trickery

• Pressure Striking — Enemies you interrupt are inflicted with torment. This trait can only affect enemies with defiance bars once per interval.

Antiquary

• Card Swap — Gain access to Reshuffle. Remove conditions from yourself whenever you reshuffle your artifacts or use an artifact skill.
• Prolific Plunderer — Gain an additional artifact slot. Whenever you pilfer, you gain an additional, random artifact. You can use one additional artifact when you pilfer with Skritt Swipe.
• Meticulous Custodian — Your artifacts have increased effectiveness. Beneficial artifact effects last longer.
• Exhilarating Ephemera — Gain increased damage for a period of time after using an artifact.
• Enterprising Aristocrat — Gain initiative and barrier whenever you use an artifact skill. You take reduced strike and condition damage whenever you have barrier.
• Possessive Hoarder — Artifacts grant boons to allies when used. Offensive and defensive artifacts grant different boons. Barrier granted through Magpie's Defense and Enterprising Aristocrat is now also granted to allies as well.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
April 14, 2026	Reduced the power coefficient on pulses from 1.2 to 0.8 in PvE only. Reduced the power coefficient on the final smash from 3.0 to 2.5 in PvE only.
January 13, 2026	All artifacts now use the same weapon-type scaling when calculating damage, regardless of the weapon type equipped. Increased the radius from 180 to 240.
October 28, 2025	Visions of Eternity release: Metal Legion Guitar has been added to the game. In addition to its previous effects, for a short period of time after using this skill, your next autoattacks are sneak attacks, even when not in stealth. Increased the power coefficient of initial damage pulses from 1.0 to 1.2 in PvE only. Increased the power coefficient of the final smash from 2.0 to 3.0 in PvE only. Increased the confusion duration from 6 seconds to 8 seconds in PvE only.
August 19, 2025	Metal Legion Guitar was available during the Visions of Eternity elite specialization Beta Event.