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Ghost of Yotei
Best Build Loadouts
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☆ Undying Armor | Spider Lily
┣ Jubei | Snow Drift | Takezo | Black Dye
┗ Reliquary | Fox Puzzles | Riddles | Kubo
★ Armor | Weapons | Charms | Best Armor
┗ Walkthrough | Quests | Platinum | Map
This is a list of all best loadouts in Ghost of Yotei. Learn more about how to get all weapons and charms for all loadouts in early and late game here!
Best Early Game Build Loadout
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 Armor of the Undying |
Perks: ・If weapon aligned, Staggering enemies restores a major amount of Health. ・If weapon aligned, the window to perform Perfect Parry and Perfect Dodge is increased by a moderate amount. ・If weapon aligned, Focus Attacks have a moderate chance to increase Stagger damage. |
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 Katana The trademark curved single-edged blade of the Japanese. The katana is an all-rounder melee weapon that can be used in general situations and is best used against sword-wielding enemies. Its moveset focuses on precise and fluid slashes.  Dual Katanas Dual-wielding katanas allows for varied offense that can come from any side. These weapon combination is designed to deal with spear-wielding enemies. Its moveset focuses on heavy strokes aimed to finish fights with as few slashses as possible  Odachi The Odachi are heavy two-handed katanas with massive blades designed to cull large enemies. Its moveset focuses on heavy strokes aimed to finish fights with as few slashes as possible.  Yari The Yari are traditional straight-headed spears that allow having longer reach during combat. They excel at dealing with sickle-wielding enemies. Its moveset focuses on swift sweeps, lethal stabs, and elevating yourself with the shaft.  Kusarigama The Kusarigama is a sickle with a ball-n'-chain attached to its end, making it capable attacking from afar and unconventional angles. Alongside being a weapon for stealth, it is capable of disarming shield-wielding enemies. Its moveset is comprised of hooks, quick takedowns, and swings that cover you.
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 Hankyu A Hankyu is a half bow that is easy to manuever with, allowing you to nock arrows and shoot them quickly. However, this will have lower range and accuracy.  Yumi A Yumi is a heavy bow that is known for its sniping and one-shot potential, allowing you to take out priority targets from places unseen. However, a longbow takes time to aim and shoot!
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 Metsubushi Metsubishi refers to a the debilitating powder that Atsu can blow to blind enemies.
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| Charms | |||||
 Charm of Thoughtful Restoration
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 Father's Charm
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 Charm of Futsunushi
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 Charm of Mount Yotei
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 Takezo's Charm of Bold Deflection
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 Charm of Last Chance
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| Recommended Skills | |||||
 Perfect Dodge
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 Perfect Parry
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 Shifting Strike
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This build promotes survivability and balance and also helps you learn the ropes of Perfect Parrying and Perfect Dodging attacks because one of the armor's perk is to improve parry and dodge window. All of the pieces of this build can be obtained as soon as you finish the prologue, letting you be strong before you even go to the next region to gather the rest of your weapons.
The only downside of this build is the constant need to switch weapons to take advantage of the armor because of weapon alignment making you pay more attention to the enemies weapons. However, this can be mitigated by learning Shifting Strike so that each weapon switch unleashes a fast heavy attack on an enemy, eliminating the short but crucial downtime when switching weapons.
Early Game Weapons and Armor Loadout
Armor of the Undying
You can obtain the Armor of the Undying by completing the Undying Samurai Tale, which starts at a small camp near Nakagoya Spring, north of Ishikari Plain.
The armor's perk allows you to play more offensively while still offering solid healing, making it one of the best early game armors.
How to Get the Armor Of The Undying
Try to Obtain All Weapons as Early as Possible
The Armor of the Undying shines more if you have all the weapons readily available on you. Weapon unlocks are tied to Sensei Tales and you do not need to progress the main story or revenge tale for you to get it.
List of All Weapons and How to Get Them
Early Game Charms Loadout
Pair the Armor with Health and Defense Charms
| Charm | Details |
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Charm of Mount Yotei
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Effect: Reduce all damage taken by a minor amount
How to Get: Finish the puzzle of the Reliquary of Courage by turning all 4 nearby statues towards Mount Yotei itself. |
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Charm of Thoughtful Restoration
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Effect: A reflection ripples in the water and the mind. Gain a minor increase to maximum Health
How to Get: Dip in the Yotei's Shadow Hot Spring |
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Charm of Last Chance
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Effect: Heal technique triggers automatically when suffering lethal damage from combat.
How to Get: Buy from Taro the Scavenger for 150 Coins |
Your goal for the early game is to increase your health and defense to survive more than one hit from the enemies.
Equip Parrying Charms
| Charm | Details |
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Charm of Futsunushi
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Effect: Parries, Perfect Parries, and Perfect Dodges are easier to perform.
How to Get: Found in the Faithful Leap Shrine |
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Father's Charm
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Effect: A gift from your father, so your sword flows like a brush stroke. Perfect Parries regain a minor amount of Health.
How to Get: Found in the Mount Yotei Shrine at the end of a path |
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Takezo's Charm of Bold Deflection
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Effect: Parrying inflicts a minor amount of additional Stagger damage.
How to Get: Defeat the third disciple at the Dueling Tree |
We also need to take advantage of the increased parry window timing from the Armor of the Undying therefore equip charms that gives benefits when parrying.
Best Late Game Build Loadout
| Armor | |||||
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 Bounty Master Armor |
Perks: ・Perfect Parry and Perfect Dodge windows are increased by a major amount, but regular Parries are disabled. ・A Perfect Parry enables 3 additional counterattacks. ・All Spirit Gains are increased by a massive amount. |
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| Melee | Ranged | Quickfire | |||
| Dual Katanas Dual-wielding katanas allows for varied offense that can come from any side. These weapon combination is designed to deal with spear-wielding enemies. Its moveset focuses on heavy strokes aimed to finish fights with as few slashses as possible
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Hankyu A Hankyu is a half bow that is easy to manuever with, allowing you to nock arrows and shoot them quickly. However, this will have lower range and accuracy.
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 Kunai A Kunai is a small throwable blade that can be deployed quickly with deft hands. It is best used to stagger and interrupt enemies out of their attacks.  Smoke Bomb Smokebombs are tools that produce a cloud of smoke on impact. This conceals the user's position, allowing for a swift escape during its duration.  Tanzutsu The Tanzutsu is a small firearm best used for situations you need to quickly deal a burst of damage without much trouble. However, you will need to reload after firing once!  Oni Flame The Oni Flame allows you to coat your currently equipped melee weapon with flame, allowing them to deal additional damage and set foes ablaze.
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| Charms | |||||
 Charm of Homusubi
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Charm of Mount Yotei
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Charm of Futsunushi
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 Charm of Masakado
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 Charm of Fiery Rage
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 Charm of Stolen Flame
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| Recommended Skills | |||||
 Improved Onryo's Will
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 Dance of Wrath
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 Improved Ghost Stance
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This build is all about using Quickfire Weapons for clearing out hordes of enemies to charge the Improved Ghost Stance or stagger a single enemy to dish out huge damage with Oni Flame and Dance of Wrath. Some of the pieces from the early game build are still the same while the others can be obtained and be fully upgraded right after starting Chapter 2.
The only significant downside of this build is sacrificing survivability. You are more prone to damage and can only rely on parrying or dodging to heal. However, getting the Improved Onryo's Will skill eliminates the need to heal in the middle of battle, making revive a better solution for survivability.
Late Game Weapons and Armor Loadout
Bounty Master Armor
You can obtain the Bounty Master by completing the Soma the Condemned Bounty. The armor's perk demands you to sacrifice survivability as it disables regular parries in exchange for dealing three hits if you perform a perfect parry.
This allows you to kill a total of three enemies, charging the Ghost Stance faster or strike three times to a boss after a parry and the strikes counts as unblockable and the enemies can't block or parry it.
Equip Dual Katanas as Your Primary Weapon
For this build, we recommend using the Dual Katanas as often as possible, as they deal low damage but hit fast and can combo well with quickfire weapons. This lets you strike an enemy relentlessly without the risk of getting hit as long as you have the ammunition for it.
Get All Quickfire Weapons Fully Upgraded
This build is centered around getting the full potential of quickfire weapons. You want them all fully upgraded to increase the maximum capacity, particularly the Oni Flame.
Late Game Charms Loadout
Fire Enhancing Charms
| Charm | Details |
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Charm of Homusubi
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Effect: Inflict increased Fire damage to enemies.
How to Get: Found in the Winding Tears Shrine at the end of a path |
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Charm of Stolen Flame
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Effect: Automatically ignite your weapon by Parrying a fire attack or Blocking a Fire Arrow. While ignited, your weapon is unblockable.
How to Get: Win two games of Zeni Hajiki with the NPC found at Oni's Breath Inn |
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Charm of Fiery Rage
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Effect: Increased duration of Oni's Flame by a moderate amount.
How to Get: Win two games of Zeni Hajiki with the NPC found at Benten Inn |
This is the backbone of this build where we enhance the Oni Flame as much as possible to make it unblockable, has longer duration and deal more damage.
Generally Good Charms
| Charm | Details |
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Charm of Futsunushi
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Effect: Parries, Perfect Parries, and Perfect Dodges are easier to perform.
How to Get: Found in the Faithful Leap Shrine |
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Charm of Mount Yotei
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Effect: Reduce all damage taken by a minor amount
How to Get: Finish the puzzle of the Reliquary of Courage by turning all 4 nearby statues towards Mount Yotei itself. |
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Charm of Masakado
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Effect: Onryo's Will revives you at full health.
How to Get: Found in the Amber Respite Shrine |
In this build, you do not use your spirit to heal and instead only relies on perfect parrying or Onryo's Will to heal yourself. As it turns out, if you have visited all the Hot Springs, it is much more efficient to use Onryo's Will to fully heal yourself instead of using the healing technique since both ways costs the same two spirit orbs.
Another advantage of using Onryo's Will is the brief period of time where enemies will back away and not attack you which gives you space and time to think.
Improved Onryo's Will Skill Effects
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