Assassin’s Creed Odyssey includes a variety of abilities in which you can invest your abilities. You can unlock abilities in the warrior, assassin, and hunter skill trees as you level up and progress through AC Odyssey. Most of those abilities are useful to some extent, but some are better than others. Unlocking the best abilities will make it somewhat easier to complete the game, particularly the Gateway to Atlantis questline that includes some ferocious mythical creatures to slay. These are some of the best abilities in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey that you should unlock sooner rather than later.
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Hero Strike
Hero Strike is a sweeping attack with which you can inflict 100% assassin damage. Although included within the assassin tree, this is also a skill you can utilize in active combat. So, it effectively gives you a high-damage attack for open combat. When levelled up to maximum, it’s a potent attack that can inflict lots of damage on more lightweight enemies.
Rush Assassination
Rush Assassination is an absolute must-have ability for launching surprise assaults on enemies from a distance. It enables you to throw the Spear of Leonidas at enemies to deal 150% damage. What makes this ability extra special is how you can chain up to three more attacks. Thus, you can inflict high damage on four enemies at once with Rush Assassination. Rush Assassination can be devastating when you’ve also upgraded other abilities that increase assassin damage output.
The Rush Assassination description
Spartan Kick
Ancient Greece is full of big mountains and high cliffs you can kick enemies off with the Spartan Kick ability. Spartan Kick inflicts up to 250% Warrior damage on its own. However, you can kill enemies in one go by luring them toward and kicking them off high cliffsides. Even if the falls aren’t always high enough to be fatal, kicking enemies off high cliffs will always inflict lots of damage.
Shield Breaker
Shield Breaker is a must-have ability for dealing with the many guards who carry shields in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. It enables you to rip shields from enemies and inflicts some damage as well. Thus, it turns shielded guards into non-shielded ones, which makes it somewhat easier to hit them in open combat.
The Shield Breaker description
Revelation
Revelation is no good for combat, but this ability makes it much easier to find loot. Utilizing Revelation highlights where nearby loot is within its radius. So, this ability enables you to find more items and drachmae. You’ll be utilizing Revelation all the time when you’ve unlocked it.
The Revelation description
Predator Shot
Unlocking Predator Shot gives you one of the highest-damage arrow attacks in the game that inflicts 600% more damage than a standard bow strike. However, the best thing about Predator Shot is that it enables you to control the arrow in slow motion like a guided missile. This makes it easy to inflict extra high-damage headshots on enemies with this ability.
The Predator Shot description
Second Wind
Second Wind is among the best abilities in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey to unlock because it enables you to replenish 25-50% energy during active combat, depending on what level it’s at. Utilizing this ability with regularity will keep the Eagle Bearer alive more often, especially when fighting bosses like mythical creatures and legendary animals. Although retreating from active combat also replenishes health, you can’t always rely on such a tactic. So, unlock the Second Wind ability ASAP.
Overpower
Overpower is a massively powerful attack you can unleash in active combat with three adrenaline segments. Utilizing this ability does make killing enemies somewhat easier because it’s much stronger than standard attacks. Another advantage of Overpower is that you don’t need to assign it to an ability slot. Overpower is not an ability you can unlock in the early game, but get in when you can.
The Overpower description
Ghost Arrow of Artemis
Ghost Arrow of Artemis is a high-damage arrow attack that inflicts 360% more damage when fully upgraded. That alone makes Ghost Arrow of Artemis worth unlocking, but this ability also enables you to shoot through walls, rocks, and pretty much anything else that would block a standard arrow. Being able to shoot through walls enables you to target the white frames of enemies from behind walls without them seeing you. This enables you to aim, hit, and kill enemies with high-damage arrows without them seeing you.
The Ghost Arrow of Artemis description
Warrior Damage
Warrior Damage is a passive ability that makes all your standard attacks stronger. Level three Warrior Damage increases your attack damage by 40%, which is quite a significant boost. This ability will always make it easier to kill enemies, and you don’t need to activate it in any way.
Those are ten of the best abilities in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey to get you through the game. There are other good ones, such as Gear Master, Battlecry of Ares, and Critical Assassination. I also recommend unlocking them, but the ten abilities above are the best ones to invest 25-30 ability points in.
