Dodging instead of deflecting
The Immortal Dash is for repositioning and Crimson Attacks, not your default defense. Every dodge skips the Qi charge and the stagger a deflect would have given you. Reserve dodges for when you cannot read the attack or must cross distance.
Misreading Crimson Attacks
Crimson Attacks flash red and black — plain red-and-white attacks are still parryable and players routinely fear them by mistake. Learn the difference: only red+black is unparryable. For the green-aura Crimson variants, the Tai-Chi Kick is your counter.
Ignoring your own Internal Damage
When you take Direct Damage, all your Internal Damage converts to Direct Damage at once. Stacking Internal Damage on yourself through sloppy imprecise deflects or risky jades (like Qi Swipe) can kill you on the next hit. The Recovery Jade cuts the regen delay from 5s to 3s and raises it to 12 HP/s — take it when a fight pressures you.
Wasting the Medicine Pipe
The pipe heals 60 HP base (up to 120) and has 2 to 8 charges. Do not sit at near-full HP and burn a charge, and do not ignore Pipe Vials and Pipe Refill Stations that top it off. The Quick Dose Jade shortens the heal animation from 0.85s to 0.51s, which matters when you are healing mid-pressure.
Leaving CPU unspent
Computing Power starts at 2 and reaches 10. A budget you do not fill, or fill with jades whose triggers never line up (e.g. a parry jade on a build that never parries), is wasted power. Fill the budget with jades that share a trigger — see the Jade CPU guide.
Forgetting the Talisman cashes in Internal Damage
Deflecting and slashing builds Internal Damage, but it only becomes real damage when a Talisman detonation converts it to Direct. Players who never talisman essentially fight with half a kit. Even a basic Qi Blast spends the Qi you worked for.
Over-investing in one expensive Jade
A single 3-CPU Jade can crowd out two or three 1–2 CPU jades that reinforce the same plan. Coverage across your budget usually beats one flashy pick — the best Jades tier list shows the trade-offs.