Swallow Dance

Swallow Dance (飛燕連脚) is a classic technique of the Tales series. This is one of the most well-recognized unarmed fighter artes of the series.

Arte Description and History
This arte is an anti-air arte that can be used to hit airborne enemies or to push grounded enemies into the air. This arte has appeared in most games as a rising triple-kick combo, in which characters jump diagonally towards the target while spinning higher into the air with each kick. In Tales of Eternia and Tales of Symphonia, the arte can be followed up immediately with any air arte, due to the unique combo system that allows the unarmed fighter characters to link these different types of artes together.

Although this arte is one of the main attacks of the unarmed fighter's repetoire, a swordsman variant also exists, in which the character does a rising double-kick combo followed by a downward thrust with the equipped weapon. This version of the arte is convenient during the early parts of the games that feature it, but since the first two strikes are considered to be unarmed attacks, damage is significantly weaker due to the loss of the weapon's damage bonuses. Therefore, the swordsman version of this arte usually becomes obsolete later within the games.

In the original Tales of Destiny, the swordsman version is used by both Stahn Aileron and Leon Magnus, but in the remake versions and in Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology, only Stahn learns it. Instead, Leon obtains Swallow Talon as a replacement.

In both versions of Tales of Symphonia, a Wind elemental property can be added to Regal Bryant's attack through the use of the Opal accessory, the Sylva Seal: Wind arte, a Wind elemental weapon, or the Green Quartz item, to replace Swallow Dance with the more powerful Wind-based arte Super Swallow Dance, if Regal has used Swallow Dance over 200 times. Additionally, but only in the Japan-exclusive PlayStation 2 version of this game, a Lightning elemental property can be added to Regal's attack through the use of the Sardonyx accessory, the Tethe Seal: Lightning arte, a Lightning elemental weapon, or the Purple Quartz item, to replace this same arte with the more powerful Lightning-based arte Hienraikyaku, again if he has used the original arte over 200 times. This additional new arte does not appear in the GameCube version.

Mothership Titles
Tales of Phantasia - Cress Albane Tales of Destiny - Stahn Aileron, Leon Magnus, Lilith Aileron (Kick Attack) Tales of Phantasia (PSX) + Full Voice Edition (PSP) - Cress Albane Tales of Eternia - Farah Oersted, Celsius (Swallow Dance) Tales of Phantasia (GBA) - Cress Albane (Swallow Dance) Tales of Symphonia - Regal Bryant, Celsius, Abyssion, Farah Oersted (Swallow Dance) Tales of Legendia - Senel Coolidge (Swallow Dance) Tales of Destiny (PS2) + Director's Cut - Stahn Aileron Tales of Innocence - Hermana Larmo [Tales of Xillia]]-[Jude Mathis]

Escort Titles
Tales of the World: Narikiri Dungeon 3 - Leon Magnus, Lilith Aileron Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology - Fighter class, Ninja class, Stahn Aileron, Senel Coolidge (Swallow Dance) Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World - Regal Bryant (Swallow Dance) Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 2 - Fighter class, Ninja class, Monk class, Celsius, Cress Albane, Farah Oersted, Senel Coolidge

Fan-Translated Names
Tales of Phantasia (SFC) (DeJap Translations): Dual Kick Tales of Phantasia (PSX) (DeJap TranslationsAbsolute Zero): Swallow Attack Tales of the World: Narikiri Dungeon 3 (Kajitani-Eizan): Swallow Dance

Tales of Phantasia
Japanese Description: 二段げりから突きへとつなぐ三連続技. 密着して使うの基本 Romanization: ''Nidan gerikara tsuki e totsunagu sanrenzoku waza. Micchaku shite tsukau no kihon'' Translated Description (DeJap Translations): "Kick the enemy then strike them with your weapon twice."

Tales of Destiny
Localized Description: "A 3 part attack consisting of 2 kicks and a weapon attack."

Tales of Eternia
Localized Description: "Rise into air with each consecutive attack."

Tales of Phantasia (GBA)
Japanese Description: 二段蹴りから突きへとつなぐ連続技 Romanization: Nidangerikara tsuki e totsunagu renzoku waza Localized Description: "Combo that starts with a double kick and ends with a thrust."

Tales of Legendia
Localized Description: Base: Rapid Spinning kicks in mid-air.

Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology
Localized Description: "Base: Strike an enemy with a flurry of spinning kicks."