How do I create a swinging sword?

I'm completely new to Construct 2, however I'm trying to create a sword swinging animation similar to Nuclear Throne or Soul Knight for a project of mine. Can anyone guide me on how to do so?

You use Construct 2 to import spritesheet and play the animation. You create the sprite animation elsewhere.

I understand that, I've done that before. However the type of swinging animation I mean is one using the engines physics as in Rotate or something like that.

Well i took a look at the games you mentioned, it is just an animation played at certain angles, which is how top down games will usually work. You use the 8 direction behaviour and the player will be facing a certain way, the sword anim will play according to that.

Sword streak with auto attack: https://www.dropbox.com/s/h0yj1w8v64103tb/saber_range.capx?dl=0