Slayers 2 Serpent Breathing: How to Get It Fast

Serpent Breathing is the first breathing style ever announced for Project Slayers 2, and it has quickly become one of the most talked-about unlocks in the game. If you have been searching for a clear route to Slayers 2 Serpent Breathing, this guide covers everything: the exact prerequisites, the trainer's location, all six training tasks, every form in the skill tree, and whether the style is actually worth your time in PvP.

The short version: you need level 25, the Slayer path, 20 Demon Horns, and 5 Beast Cores before Obari will even talk to you. After that, it is a six-step training gauntlet that ends with a duel against the Serpent Trainee. Community tier lists consistently place Serpent Breathing in A-tier, so the grind is worth it — especially if you enjoy technical, guard-bending playstyles.

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Serpent Breathing Requirements in Slayers 2

Obari will not start your training until you meet every requirement. There is no partial progress and no way to skip ahead, so farm everything before you make the trip up the mountain.

How to Farm Demon Horns Fast

Demon Horns are the bigger grind of the two materials. Player experience suggests the Hoyuzo boss is the most efficient source — his subordinates reportedly drop one horn about 30% of the time, while defeating Hoyuzo himself can drop three horns at roughly a 50% rate. If you are still leveling toward 25 anyway, just kill every demon you pass and the horns will pile up naturally.

How to Farm Beast Cores Fast

Beast Cores come from Beast Born Demons, which only spawn at night in the back areas of the map. Community reports put the drop rate around 50% per kill, but there is a catch: these demons can and will jump you in groups. A player who got ambushed mid-farm described it as getting "jumped" by a pack, so pull them one at a time or bring a friend. You need five cores total, so expect roughly ten kills on average.

Where to Find Obari, the Serpent Trainer

The trainer NPC is Obari, an Iguro-inspired character standing on the cliff above Windy Peak, overlooking the starting village and the Zuko spawn point. You must have Wall Climb unlocked to scale the mountain and reach him — there is no alternate route.

His dialogue sets the tone for the whole style: "A serpent does not strike blindly. It waits. It coils. It finds the one true opening." That is essentially a mission statement for how Serpent Breathing plays in combat, which we will get into below.

Once you accept, the quest marker will guide you to each training area in order. You cannot do them out of sequence.

All Six Serpent Breathing Training Tasks

The training unlocks one task at a time. Here is the full order, where each task happens, and what you actually have to do.

Tips for the Hardest Tasks

Meditation is widely considered the most annoying task in the chain. The timing window is tight and a single mistimed click resets your streak. Slow down, watch the bar for a full cycle before your first click, and do not rush.

Boulder Push gives you a two-minute timer and restarts if you fail. Community players note the boulder can clip through some walls, which actually shortens the route if you exploit it. Push steadily and follow the white arrow rather than trying to take clever shortcuts.

Push Ups punishes early clicks — if you stand up with a red aura, the set failed. Click when the inner ring is about to touch the edge of the white circle, not when it is already there.

Beating the Serpent Trainee

The final task is a straight fight, and the trainee hits harder than you might expect. Player reports describe one particular move as "ridiculous" — a fast lunge that punishes greedy swings. The reliable strategy is to block his combo, step behind him during recovery, and chip away rather than trading hits. Bring healing items and do not panic-roll off the mountain.

Winning this fight unlocks Serpent Breathing. Head straight to your Skill Tree and start spending points.

All Serpent Breathing Forms and Keybinds

Serpent Breathing has five forms plus a mode. The moveset mimics a snake's slithering motion: attacks are not direct, they curve and meander, which lets them bend around an opponent's guard.

Each form has a fallback animation if it whiffs. Serpent Slash just strikes the ground, Coil Choke becomes a single upward slash, and both Twin-Headed Reptile and Slithering Serpent reduce to a plain dash. This matters in PvP — a missed Coil Choke leaves you wide open, so only commit when you have a read on your opponent.

Serpent's Wrath Mode

Beyond the five forms, Serpent Breathing has an ultimate called Slithering Serpent and a buff state called Serpent's Wrath Mode. The mode grants a purple aura, stat buffs, and access to a white-aura flash step that vanishes for about a second before reappearing. Community footage shows it is strong for closing distance and bursting down demons, though several players admit they are still figuring out the flash step's exact timing.

If you pair this with the Iguro clan (Mythic, 1% roll), you get a kit built specifically around Serpent Breathing and poison damage. Just be aware that a recent patch cut the clan's movement bonus from 25% to 5% and slowed the V skill's startup by 0.25 seconds, so it is less dominant than it was at launch.

Is Serpent Breathing Good? Tier List and Verdict

Yes — it sits firmly in A-tier across most published rankings. Community tier lists place it alongside four other A-tier styles, and the five major lists we compared all land within one tier of each other, which is a good sign of consensus rather than hype.

Strengths: attacks curve around guards, solid mid-range pressure, excellent for technical duelists who like repositioning.

Weaknesses: lower raw damage than Flame Breathing, requires practice to land consistently, and the trainer is genuinely out of the way.

If you are a player who wins through reads and spacing rather than stat-checking, Serpent Breathing rewards you. If you want big unga-bunga numbers, Flame is still the easier pick.

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