Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Best Skills and Character Upgrades

An assassin must be a master in the art of stealth, dextrous, versatile, and capable of doing what needs to be done with the requisite finesse to leave no trace behind. A Viking invader on the other hand, can afford to be a lot less subtle.

In Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, it’s your choice which path Eivor chooses to take: the melee-brawling Viking warrior, the illusive assassin, or a cunning and dangerous mixture of the two.

Where Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’s Skills and character upgrades were quite straightforward, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla takes a much more sprawling approach to the system, with a celestial cosmos of minor stat increases to mull over.

And that’s before you even get to the Skills themselves – powerful abilities which swing the tide of combat in your favour, alongside the regular swinging of your axe.

Across the Viking invasion of medieval England – given the violent nature of your intentions – there’s a lot of battling. This means that getting the right combat Skills to supplement your favored style of character build is vital to your smooth progress and enjoyment.

Here are some of our picks for the best Skills in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, as well as how to upgrade your character effectively.

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Character Upgrades

Shrouded in smoke and boasting more percentages than a Wall Street stock ticker, the Skill and character upgrade screen in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla can be a bit of an information overload.

However, there’s something vital which isn’t immediately obvious from the start of the game: you can reset and redistribute your skills at any time during your adventure – completely free – so you don’t have to agonize over every stat point you spend.

There are 40 different skills in total, and in practice, there are three things which determine where to spend your skill points:

• Whether you want to favour melee, ranged, or stealth skills
• Whether you want to make use of Abilities
• Which animal affinity your current and favourite weapons are

The three directions on the Skill board can be very roughly divided into three categories: melee up from the middle, ranged to the right, and stealth to the left.

All three directions have their own bow skills – light bow up, hunter bow right, and predator bow left – which is why I say very roughly. If you choose to invest your points into the red skills at the top of the board, you’re not going to be a useless archer for example, so don’t worry about specializing too much.

Think of each route more as a focus than the only thing you can use. This is backed up by the range of different stat nodes that you’ll acquire whichever path you choose.

In the early game, there’s a lot of raiding and brawling, so you’ll probably want to go with the red melee Skills, but you won’t struggle if you don’t.

Your next choice is whether you want to make use of the adrenaline Abilities. These are the combat and stealth skills that you learn from Books of Knowledge that you find throughout the world.

If you like spamming these abilities, then you may want to look into building a mixed character with all of the adrenaline upgrades.

There’s one at the bottom of the board underneath Last Chance Healing, one on the left next to Chain Assassination, and finally one up and to the left next to Berserker’s Mettle.

One more thing to consider, when you look at your equipped weapons in your inventory, above their name is a picture of an animal. This is either a red bear, a blue wolf, or a yellow raven.

If you find yourself particularly enamored with a certain variety of weapon, then you should consider taking your skills down the corresponding path.

For example, Varin’s Axe is a red bear affinity weapon, so if you spend stat points going up from the middle of the upgrade screen – in the melee focused tree, some of the stat nodes will be specifically geared towards enhancing your ability with bear affinity weapons.

Since you can redistribute your points freely, you could change up your points to hit these nodes whenever you change weapons.

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Best Skills

Muddling your way through is all well and good, but it’s much easier to pick the best Skills for you in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla if you actually know what they are.

As as starting point to work toward, I usually go up to Stomp, then right to Parry Damage. Then from the middle go left to Backstab, then up to Brush with Death. This gives you a really capable melee character from the start, by which point you should have a grasp of where you want to go next.

Below is a full table of all 40 Skills, what they do, and where they appear on the board so you can plot your path.

We’ve also embedded a video run through of every single Skill at the top of this page if you prefer to see them in action:

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Skills
Skill Name:	Skill Effect:	Location on upgrade board:
Stomp	When an enemy falls, press R3 to stomp on them for extra damage	Up from middle
Parry Damage	Successful parries deal damage to the attacker	Right from Stomp
Adrenaline Fiend	Gain a damage boost and attack speed boost when 1 or more Adrenaline Slots are filled	Up from Parry Damage
Arrow Volley	Fire all loaded arrows from a light bow at once on an enemy for a stamina cost	Top right, right from Adrenaline Fiend
Perfect Attack	Press R1 again during a weapon swing to have the next one do more damage	Up from Stomp
Warrior Takedown	Press R2 to perform a violent takedown on an unaware enemy – fills a bar of adrenaline for every enemy you alert	Up from Perfect Attack
Sprint Bash	Upgrade your sprint to break through breakable objects and doors, as well as knock NPCs to the ground	Top, up from Warrior Takedown
Dual Swap	When dual-wielding, press R2 +R3 to swap the weapons in your hands	Left from Stomp
Berserker’s Mettle	A partially filled adrenaline slot won’t empty the first time an enemy hits you	Left from Dual Swap
Heavy Dual Wield	You can dual-wield two heavy weapons – but it alters the stats and handling	Left from Berserker’s Mettle
Light Bow Combo	Consecutive shots with a light bow deal more damage	Up from Dual Swap, left from Perfect Attack
Terror	After a Stun Finisher, weak enemies cower in fear and can be easily finished	Left from Light Bow Combo
Battlefield Cremation	Enemies you kill with fire attacks stay burning and deal fire damage to other enemies	Up from Light Bow Combo
Backstab	Landing a blow directly to an enemy’s back does more damage and makes them stagger	Left from Middle
Advanced Assassination	Unlocks ability to assassinate high-level targets with a timed mini-game	Down from Backstab
Breakfall	Eivor automatically does a roll which negates some fall damage after a large drop	Down from Advanced Assassination
Missile Reversal	Catch and throw back “virtually any” projectile by parrying it with L1 just before it hits	Down from Breakfall
Brush with Death	Dodging just before an attack lands slows down time	Up from Backstab
Predator Bow Combo	Consecutive shots with the Predator Bow deal more damage	Left from Brush with Death
Counter Roll	Dodge towards an enemy’s Rune Attack just before it lands to vault behind them	Left from Predator Bow Combo
Guided Arrow	Press R1 to control the arrow from a Predator Bow as it flies	Left from Backstab
Explosive Corpse	Hold R3 to booby-trap dead bodies to damage enemies who investigate	Left from Guided Arrow
Miasma	Enemies who die from your poison attacks release a cloud of toxic gas	Left from Explosive Corpse
Chain Assassination	After performing one assassination, throw an axe at a second NPC in close proximity	Down from Guided Arrow
Auto-loot	Automatically collect the loot from a defeated enemy	Down from Chain Assassinationq
Assassin’s Cantrip	After a parry, press Triangle to throw a smoke bomb and disappear	Left from Chain Assassination
Stealth Recon	Automatically highlight enemies when crouched	Right from middle
Emergency Aim	Hold L2 when being detected to snap your aim to an enemy for a chance to kill them before they raise the alarm	Up from Stealth Recon
Hunter Bow Combo	Release an arrow just as you finish drawing it to make the next one draw faster	Up from Emergency Aim
Arrow Reinforcement	Loosed arrows never break, so you can always pick them up from defeated enemies	Right from Hunter Bow Combo
Bow to Melee Link	Alternating between bow and melee hits deals extra damage	Right from Stealth Recon
Stealth Adrenaline	While in stealth, fill adrenaline slots by looting chests or picking pockets	Up from Bow to Melee Link
Bow Stun Finisher	Press R3 while aiming at a stunned enemy to trigger a finishing move	Right from Stealth Adrenaline
Sprint Attack	Press R1 while sprinting to do a special attack	Down from Stealth Recon
Battleground Bolt	Press Triangle next to a discarded weapon to throw it at another enemy	Right from Sprint Attack
Charged Shot	Fire two fully charged arrows with the Hunter Bow	Right from Battleground Bolt
Grit	Regain the “red portion” of your health bar when you hit an enemy	Down from Battleground Bolt
Last Chance Healing	When you reach critical health, time will slow down to let you heal or run away	Down from Sprint Attack
Adrenaline Upgrades	+1 adrenaline slot	There’s one at the bottom below Last Chance Healing, one next to Chain Assassination, and one next to Berserker’s Mettle

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