Talk:PvP/@comment-12305650-20150415013019/@comment-26292999-20150415014727

Yes it's possible but harder to achieve since PVP opponents are chosen from similar saniwa level (except for the last opponent) so their teams will be on similar levels to yours and will either one hit KO your swords or vice versa.

Some players will put weaker swords for PVP so if you come across this you can pitch a single sword you want to see shinken hissatsu for agasint a full team of lower level swords, but there needs to be a sufficient level gap for this to work and even then it's tricky. For example I put my level 90 Uguisumaru (without troops or horse) alone against a full team of level 30s and successfully activated his shinken hissatsu.

My advice would be to use PVP to gain some easy EXP and stick to using spare/duplicate swords to farm shinken hissatsu in maps 1-1 or 1-2 (for tachi/oodachi I find 1-3 works better) without any equips like Pandacath said.