Best Skills and Abilities to Unlock First

Here are the best skills and abilities to unlock first in Black Myth: Wukong. Find out the best Foundation skills and Staff Stance skills to unlock to get you through the game.

Best Skills and Abilities to Unlock First

Skill	Reason to Unlock First
Robust Constitution	Increases your Maximum Health. This is recommended especially for players who are new to challenging games.
Simian Agility	Reduces stamina cost when dodging. Since the game is designed to challenge players, dodging will be the primary key in surviving most of the fights and you surely do not want to lose stamina while doing it.
Rampant Vigor	Increases overall stamina. Perfect partner for Simian Agility.
Rough Skin	Increases your defense. Similar to Robust Constitution, if you are new to this type of game then this skill will be highly useful especially during early game.
Pillar Stance	Allows the player to balance themselves on the top of their staff, avoiding ground attacks during the process.
Exhilaration	Increases Health Recovery upon consuming a Focus Point. Another skills for surviving.
Steel Pillar	Steel Pillar reduces the stamina cost during Pillar Stance.

The skills chosen on this list emphasizes survivability and is recommended for beginners. These skills are great to have during early game to get you by when you are slowly learning the mechanics and getting better.

Once you're finally comfortable with the game and your skills, you can respec your character (basically reset all your points) and invest them on other, more advanced skills.

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Best Foundation Skills

Robust Constitution

Skill	How to Unlock	Required Sparks to Awaken
Robust Constitution
	Unlocked automatically at the start	1
	Effect: Each talent level moderately increases Maximum Health. Max Talent Awakening: 6 times

Found in the Survival skill tree, the Robust Constitution increases your maximum health each time you awaken this skill. This is a no brainer as you will need a lot of HP if you're gonna take on hard bosses especially during the later parts of the game.

Unless you want to challenge yourself by not increasing your HP, this skill should be one of your main priorities. Robust Constitution can be awakened 6 times.

Simian Agility

Skill	How to Unlock	Required Sparks to Awaken
Simian Agility
	Unlocked automatically at the start	1
	Effect: Each talent level moderately reduces the Stamina cost of Dodging. Max Talent Awakening: 2 times

As Black Myth: Wukong is designed to have difficult enemies, this means that you will have to dodge enemy attacks alot.

Since dodging will be one of your main survivability options in the game, the Simian Agility will reduce the stamina cost when you are dodging, making it a must get skill.

Simian Agility can be awakened twice.

Rampant Vigor

Skill	How to Unlock	Required Sparks to Awaken
Rampant Vigor
	Unlocked automatically at the start	1
	Effect: Each talent level moderately increases Maximum Stamina. Max Talent Awakening: 6 times

Rampant Vigor increases your overall stamina which will be helpful with a lot of movement like dodging in this game.

This skill can be awakened 6 times.

Everlasting Vigor

Skill	How to Unlock	Required Sparks to Awaken
Everlasting Vigor
	Unlock previous skill node.	1
	Effect: Slightly increases stamina recovery rate when depleted.

Everlasting Vigor is another skill that you should pick up(and a perfect partner to Simian Agility) as it slightly increases the stamina recovery rate when it is depleted. Even if it is small, the small boost in your stamina recovery can make a difference in battle.

Mobile Spin

Skill	How to Unlock	Required Sparks to Awaken
Mobile Spin
	Unlocked automatically at the start	1
	Effect: Moving forward while using Staff Spin initiates Mobile Spin. The Destined One spins his staff around his body, deflecting projectiles.

Unlocked from the Martial Arts skill tree at the start, the Mobile Spin is another skill that we recommend. This skill let's the Destined One spin his staff around his body which can deflect projectiles. It is a good option to protect yourself from some ranged attacks.

Rough Skin

Skill	How to Unlock	Required Sparks to Awaken
Rough Skin
	Reach Level 30	2
	Effect: Each talent level moderately increases Defense. Max Talent Awakening: 6 times

Rough Skin is good to partner up with Robust Constitution as this skill will moderately increase your defense which will boost your survivability.

This skill can be awakened 6 times.

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Best Staff Stance Skills

Pillar Stance

Skill	How to Unlock	Required Sparks to Awaken
Pillar Stance
	Reach Level 5	1
	Effect: Switching to Pillar Stance allows the Destined One to support himself with his staff and ascend to its top by holding Heavy Attack, avoiding ground attacks in the process. The more Focus Point he builds, the higher he perches. If the staff is hit by the enemy while perching, more Stamina will be consumed to maintain balance.

Pillar Stance from the skill tree of the same name is recommended to be awakened by beginners as this staff stance and the subsequent skills in this stance focus more on playing defensively which is perfect for players who wants to play safe.

The skills under this skill tree is recommended for beginners as its style emphasizes playing defensively which is perfect for newcomers in general.

Pillar Stance lets the player ascend to the top of his staff after holding Heavy Attack, which will spare him from ground attacks in the process.

Versatility

Skill	How to Unlock	Required Sparks to Awaken
Versatility
	Unlock Focused Attack II and previous node	1
	Effect: Each talent level slightly increases Damage dealt by all Varied Combos. Max Talent Awakening: 3 times

Versatility increases your damage dealt with Varied Combos. This means that the combination of light and heavy attacks will have more damage.

This skill can be awakened 3 times.

Endeavor

Skill	How to Unlock	Required Sparks to Awaken
Endeavor
	Unlock Focused Attack IV and previous node	2
	Effect: When below 1 Focus Point, the Destined One can still perform Varied Combos, but with significantly reduced damage.

Having no Focus Points can be a bit of a pain but with the Endeavor skill, you can still perform Varied Combos, albeit a weaker version than when you have Focus Points.

Force Unbound

Skill	How to Unlock	Required Sparks to Awaken
Force Unbound
	Unlocked automatically at the start	1
	Effect: Enables Sprinting while charging.

As one of the early skills that you can unlock, Force Unbound is good as you can sprint while charging attacks, adding more movement options early game.

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