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It boosts Attack by 2 stages. Is that what you're looking for? Or are you trying to figure out how much of a damage multiplier each stage has or something?

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Swords Dance raises the user's Attack by two stages.

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This means your attack is doubled. Every stage adds .5x to the multiplier. (One stage is 1.5x, two stages is 2x, etc.)

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Adding some additional information to MonkeyBusiness's answer:
The "stages" for stat changes apply the following multipliers to the actual stat:
+6: 4x (8/2)
+5: 3.5x (7/2)
+4: 3x (6/2)
+3: 2.5x (5/2)
+2: 2x (4/2)
+1: 1.5x (3/2)
+0: 1x (2/2)
-1: 0.67x (2/3)
-2: 0.5x (2/4)
-3: 0.4x (2/5)
-4: 0.33x (2/6)
-5: 0.29x (2/7)
-6: 0.25x (2/8)

Basically, if the stage is positive, the multiplier is (2 + x)/2, while if it is negative, it is 2/(2 + x), with x being the stage number. If the stage is 0, there is no multiplier.

Source (in "Stage Multipliers")

Hope this helped!

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The exact numbers for each stage:
-6: .25x
-5: ~.29
-4: .33x
-3: .4x
-2: .5x
-1: .67x
0: 1x
1: 1.5x
2: 2x
3: 2.5x
4: 3x
5: 3.5x
6: 4x

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