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Hidden Techniques in Ghost of Yotei appear as question marks on your skill trees and must be unlocked by other means such as tales and progression. Learn more about all hidden techniques, their effects, how to get them, and additional information on what these techniques are!
| Techniques | Details |
|---|
Dance of Wrath
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| How to Get: Progress through The Storm Blade tale. Effect: Onryo's Strike grows stronger, attacking and Disarming up to 3 enemies. |
Shifting Strike
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| How to Get: Visit Altar of Reflection after investing a skill point into Jump Kick. Effect: Unleash a rapid Heavy Attack when changing weapons. |
Dance of Wrath is a technique that pays homage to Ghost of Tsushima's Jin Sakai, and is unlocked by progressing through The Storm Blade Mythic Tale.
Shifting Strike encourages you to switch weapons by performing an attack as you switch weapons. This technique easily unlocked by investing a skill point into its prerequisite skill, Jump Kick.
| Techniques | Details |
|---|
Horse Charge
|
| How to Get: Progress through The Oni revenge tale. Effect: An all-out horse charge that can throw and damage large groups of enemies. Drains Spirit while in use. |
Horse Charge Efficiency
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| How to Get: Visit Altar of Reflection to learn after unlocking. Effect: Reduce the Spirit burn rate of Horse Charge by a moderate amount. |
Horse Charge Recovery
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| How to Get: Visit Altar of Reflection to learn after unlocking. Effect: Horse Charge impacts have a minor chance to recover 3 Spirit. |
To get access to the hidden Horse Skills, you will need to progress through The Oni revenge tale.
| Techniques | Details |
|---|
Hunter's Ear
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| How to Get: Progress through The Kitsune revenge tale. Effect: Detect neaby enemies by listening. |
Persistent Echoes
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| How to Get: Visit Altar of Reflection to learn after unlocking Hunter's Ear. Effect: Outlines of nearby enemies linger after using Hunter's Ear. |
Hostile Intuition
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| How to Get: Visit Altar of Reflection to learn after unlocking Hunter's Ear. Effect: Nearby enemies are outlined in red while using Hunter's Ear. |
To get access to the hidden Survival Skills, you will need to progress through The Kitsune revenge tale.
The Kitsune Quest Walkthrough
| Techniques | Details |
|---|
Ghost Stance
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| How to Get: Progress through The Saito Brothers revenge tale. Effect: Ghost stance allows you to kill enemies with deadly strikes. Get a kill streak of 7 enemies to fully charge your Ghost Stance. Taking damage resets your kill streak to 0. |
Improved Ghost Stance
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| How to Get: Visit Altar of Reflection to learn after unlocking. Effect: Reduce the kill requirement for Ghost Stance by 1. |
Standoff Unlock: Pistol
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| How to Get: Complete the Guns and Consequences quest. Effect: At the end of a Standoff, press R1 when prompted to kill an additional enemy with the Tanzutsu pistol. |
To get access to Ghost Stance and the Improved Ghost Stance, you will need to progress through the Saito Brothers revenge tale. This improves Onryo's Howl by increasing the number of enemies you can kill at once.
The Standoff Unlock: Pistol skill allows you to kill an additional enemy duing Standoffs. To unlock is automatically unlocked as you finish the Guns and Consequences quest with Matchlock Murata.
| Techniques | Details |
|---|
Wolf's Call
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| How to Get: Finish 4 Wolf Dens to unlock. Effect: Playing the Song of the Wolf near Yotei Six Camps calls the wolf to your side. |
Primal Bond
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| How to Get: Finish 10 Wolf Dens to unlock. Effect: The wolf will respond to Song of the Wolf more often and be available in more locations. |
To get access to the hidden Wolf Skills, you will need to complete enough Wolf Dens.
All Wolf Den Locations

Certain skills within your skill tree will appear as question marks, and will remain inaccessible until you progress through or finish their related tales.
Story Walkthrough and List of All Chapters
Onryo |
Core |
Melee |
Revenge |
Wolf |
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All Hidden Techniques



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