Swordsman is the application of using a blade in the art of combat.
Characters with this ability []
Master Swordsman[]
- Alternate Michael - Michael shows high proficiency in swordplay, easily deflecting Gabriel's blows, although he chose to use hand-to-hand combat to finish him off.
- Gabriel - Gabriel displayed great swordsmanship profiency, showing impressive moves with a sword, fighting sporadically and swiftly. He even held off Michael from the Apocalypse World in a sword fight but eventually proved no match for him.
- Lucifer - Although rarely using blades, he was still capable in swordsmanship, defeating several demons with aid from Castiel with a single Angel Blade despite being weakened.
- Castiel – Castiel is highly proficient in swordplay. His proficiency in swordsmanship is shown by how he is capable of easily defeating other Angels as well as inhuman beings with angelic weaponry even when up against several opponents. At one point, he was able to fight against the stronger Gog wielding a large sword using an Angel Blade for a reasonable length of time due to his superior skill, managing to hit him once, before being overpowered. He even easily defeated Kabaiel with a normal angel blade whereas the Grigori was armed with a superior angel sword.
- Sam Winchester - Although using bladed weapons less often than his older brother and not being as proficient as Dean, Sam is still shown to be considerably capable in swordplay, displaying the ability to wield bladed weapons, often knives but sometimes also Angel Blades and other weapons with blade-like appearance with great proficiency, managing to kill off physically more powerful creatures using only a Knives or improvised swords.
- Angels – Several of them are capable of wielding an Angel Blades. Many of the angels are skilled in killing swarms of Demons, angels, and monsters with just the blade on hand.
- Crowley – He is shown very capable in wielding an Angel Blades. Crowley is capable of easily disarming foes and killing them off-guard.
- Dean Winchester - Repeatedly, Dean displayed outstanding skill in swordsmanship, wielding blade-like weapons or knives with great skill to defeat physically more powerful creatures. He even managed to kill an entire nest of vampires while a vampire himself with a single blade, and while in Purgatory, Dean was able to easily kill many monsters and even incapacitate Leviathans by decapitating them with a blade he crafted in the monster realm. was able to use the broken pieces of an Angel Blade to overwhelm Magog wielding his sword and eventually use Magog's sword to kill him. On another occasion, he used a shovel as an improvised weapon to briefly trade blows with Ramiel wielding the Lance of Michael. While wielding Alternate Kaia's spear, Dean was able to use it with even greater proficiency than she did, allowing him to trade blows with the Alternate Michael better than she did and forcing him to use more effort in dodging Dean's slashes and twirls. Dean was also able to wield Death's Scythe to devastating effect against the being who had the power and status of Death twice, both to lethal effect, swiftly stabbing the original Death to kill him, a move that caught the Horseman completely off-guard, and managing to accurately only cut Billie's shoulder as he wasn't trying to kill her and upon getting close swiftly hit said wound with the blunt part of the Scythe before holding the Scythe dangerously close at her neck, Billie barely managing to block it with her hand, while Dean was not trying to kill her yet as he wanted her to stop killing his friends first, with Billie only disarming him by catching him off-guard.
- Gordon Walker - A veteran hunter specializing in killing Vampires, Gordon was extremely skilled with blades, capable of easily besting and killing the bloodsuckers via decapitation and easily killed Scott Carey with a large knife before he could react.
- Bobby Singer - Despite his old age, as a veteran hunter with decades of experience, Bobby has proven himself quite capable in using bladed weapons. He was able to use knives skillfully against Dean twice, forcing Dean to put in effort to disarm him in the first and managing to swiftly stab him when he was off-guard in the shoulder in the second time. He also easily killed two demons with the Demon-Killing Knife.
- Mary Winchester - Trained in the arts of hunting by her family, who come from a long line of hunters, Mary has proven herself to be highly competent in using bladed weapons. She was able to skillfully use both an angel blade and a crowbar against the angel Anna Milton, cutting her hand with the former weapon and squarely impaling her in the chest with the latter. After her resurrection and training with Arthur Ketch and the British Men of Letters, Mary's skills grew even sharper. Using an angel blade, she proved capable of easily killing an angel and a demon and slaying an entire nest of vampires with a single blade, swiftly decapitating two vampires from the Morest nest. She even managed to kill a Werewolf enhanced by Michael's grace by knocking him to the ground swiftly with blows from an axe before decapitating him with a machete.
- Ramiel - Due to his millennia of experience, Ramiel was an excellent swordsman as he was able to wield the Lance of Michael with outstanding skill to easily critically injure the Seraphim Castiel and also battle and overwhelm Sam, Mary and Dean Winchester with ease, using the lance's blunt points to hit them non fatally and quickly disarming Dean of the hatchet he used to fight back Ramiel.
- Lily Sunder - Having spent a century training with Enochian magic, Lily became skilled in using an angel blade. Lily is capable of killing two unnamed angels of Ishim's flight while stealing their angel blades for her own use . The greatest extent of her skills are when she proceed to clashes angel blades with angelic flight leader Ishim on her own before she was overpowered.
- Cain - Wielder of the First Blade and Father of Murder, Cain was proficient in swordsmanship, using the First Blade to slaughter the Knights of Hell and lesser Demons with ease..