Highlights

• Hashira uses powerful breathing styles with unique abilities, each derived from different forms, such as flower or thunder breathing.
• Not all breathing styles are equal in strength, with some closer to Solar Breathing being more powerful than others.
• Each Hashira showcases impressive techniques with their unique breathing style, such as Resounding Slashes or Stone Soin.

The Hashira are some of the most powerful and talented individuals in the Demon Slayer universe. Each of them uses their own breathing styles, which are powerful skills that individuals can combine with their swordplay.

While each Breathing Style has its own advantages, some of them will inevitably be weaker than others, especially the further they are from Solar Breathing.

This is a classification of your breathing styles and
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its general power.

9 The power to imitate an insect

• Type of respiration: insect respiration
• Hashira User: Shinobu Kocho

While Shinobu is powerful in her own right and makes masterful use of her Insect Breath, she's definitely not the strongest, and requires poison to be able to kill demons, as it doesn't provide enough power to decapitate them. This style relies on speed and delivering deadly insect-like bites.

This breathing style is derived from floral breathing, which in turn derives from water breathing, a product of solar breathing. It is the most distant form of solar breathing. One of Shinobu's most powerful techniques is the Hundred-Legged Zig Zag.

8 The power of using sound

• Breathing style: sound breathing
• Hashira User: Tengen Uzai

Tengen Uzai is a beloved Demon Slayer character who demonstrated impressive Sound Breathing. This breathing style relies specifically on explosives, as it's best used with loud noises to disorient enemies with its sound. This breathing style is also known for its speed.

This style is derived from Thunder Breathing. A notable technique known for its power is Resounding Slashes.

7 The power to imitate snakes

• Breathing Style: Serpent Breath
• Hashira User: Obanai Iguro

Obanai Iguro makes incredible use of Serpent Breathing in Demon Slayer. This breathing style mimics Snake's movement, creating slithering movements. Obanai takes it a step further with his strangely shaped sword, reminiscent of a snake's body.

This Breathing Style emerged from Water Breathing, as did Flower Breathing. The Slithering Snake technique is a powerful one used by Obanai.

6 The power to manipulate fog

• Breathing type: Mist breathing
• Hashira User: Muichiro Tokito

Muichiro Tokito's breathing style, Mist Breathing, relies heavily on disorienting enemies by exploiting the obscurity of mist. This breathing style's attacks can be quite sneaky, using obscured attacks to deliver blows.

This breathing style derives from wind breathing. One of the most notable techniques in this style is the Seventh Form: Obscuring Clouds, personally created by Muichiro.

5 The power of using love

• Breathing Type: Loving Breath
• Hashira User: Mitsuri Kanroji

Love Breathing is a skill used by none other than the Love Hashira, Mitsuri Kanroji. This breathing technique utilizes incredible flexibility and agility to perform its attacks. This breathing style boasts incredible range, incorporating slashes with Mitsuri's whip-like sword.

The Breath of Love is derived from the Breath of Fire. Its most impressive technique is undoubtedly the Sixth Form: Cat-Legged Winds of Love.

4 The power to manipulate the wind

• Breathing type: wind breathing
• Hashira User: Sanemi Shinazugawa

Sanemi's Wind Breathing mimics the wind, as the name suggests. This type of breathing is highly offensive, using powerful gusts of wind to damage enemies.

The Wind Breath is one of the first to emerge from the Sun Breath, and from it emerged other Breaths, such as the Beast Breath and the Mist Breath. A powerful technique from this Breath is the Idaten Typhoon.

3 The power to imitate the Earth

• Breathing type: Stone breathing
• Hashira User: Gyomei Himejima

Without a doubt, one of the most powerful abilities fans witnessed in Demon Slayer was none other than Gyomei Himejim's Stone Breath. This power has immense destructive potential, far greater than the Breath of the other Hashiras. With her Stone Breath, Gyomei was able to go toe-to-toe with Kokushibo and his Moon Breath, a feat that cannot be understated.

In general, Stone Breathing is derived from another powerful breathing technique known as Solar Breathing. Some powerful known abilities of this Breathing include: Stone Breathing, Volcanic Rock – Rapid Conquest, and Arcs of Justice.

2 The power to imitate water

• Type of breathing: aquatic respiration
• Hashira User: Giyu Tomioka

Water Breathing, Giyu Tomioka's breathing style, is a style fans are quite familiar with in Demon Slayer, as it is used by other characters as well. This breathing style requires the user to bend their body in a fluid motion, similar to the fluidity of water.

It is one of the main breathing styles derived from Sun Breathing and will lead to the creation of other breaths, such as Flower and Serpent Breathing. A notable water breathing technique created by Giyu Tomioka himself is the Eleventh Form: Dead Calm.

1 The power to imitate fire

• Breathing Style: Flame Breathing
• Hashira User: Kyojuro Rengoku

Flame Breathing is used by Kyojuro Rengoku. This breathing style is deeply rooted in his family and is quite powerful.

This breathing style is one of the five main styles derived directly from Solar Breathing, the ultimate form of breathing. The most powerful technique that utilizes the Rengoku family's Flame Breathing is called the Ninth Form: Rengoku.