Best skills in Assassin’s Creed Shadows

Between two characters, both with six distinct skill trees each, you’re spoilt for choice in Assassin’s Creed Shadows. There’s everything from brutal counters to a bamboo shoot which lets you stealth underwater. Picking the best skills is no easy task, especially since many of the high-level skills actually have unique unlock requirements attached. Plus, you can only have two weapon skills and two character skills equipped at once as well, forcing you to make tough decisions.

At the start of the game, all you’ll need are mastery and knowledge points to unlock new skills. Later on though, as you get your eyes more powerful skills, you’ll also need to meet various quest milestones.

Best Assassin’s Creed Shadows skills

Naoe and Yasuke have very different approaches in Shadows. Naoe, the shinobi, is designed around stealth, with half the health of her samurai counterpart and less damage in combat. Yasuke is a walking tank, ignoring all notions of subtlety as he charges in and starts swinging. As such, both characters have wildly different builds and skills.

Keep in mind that each weapon type also has its own skill tree, so you won’t be able to use some of the skills below unless you’re using the correct weapon type. I’ll include a variety of weapon skills so you’ve got some options depending on your favourite.

Best Naoe skills

Best Yasuke skills

How to unlock all skills in Assassin’s Creed Shadows

Below you’ll find all the skill unlock requirements for Naoe and Yasuke. There are a few I’m still figuring out how to get, though these are likely found in the remaining investigation boards since most are tied to investigations like The Godai Shinobi, Nobutsuna’s Students, and so on. I’ll update these once I’ve tracked them down.

Locked Naoe skills:

Locked Yasuke skills: