Combat Tips to Know Before Starting

Here are combat tips you need to know before starting Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown. Read on to learn combat tips and useful combat abilities to help you emerge victorious from your battles.

Combat Tips and Tricks

1. Heal Up When Your Health is Low
2. Dodge Unstoppable Attacks
3. Block Enemy Attacks
4. Ranged Attacks Can Be Parried
5. Equip Powerful Amulets That Suit Your Playstyle
6. Use Your Bow and Chakram
7. Complete Artaban's Challenges

Heal Up When Your HP is Low

During combat with an enemy, remember to keep an eye on your health and remember to consume a Healing Potion if your HP is low. You may also go to the nearest Wak-Wak Tree to rejuvenate your health and fill up your empty health potions.

Healing Potions can be upgraded, enhancing both their effectiveness and the number you can carry at once.

How to Heal

Dodge Unstoppable Attacks

You can see unstoppable attacks if the enemy is giving off a flashing red glint before an attack.

Unstoppable Attacks cannot be parried and you'll have to resort to dodging them to avoid getting damaged.

How to Dodge

Parry Enemy Attacks

You can effectively parry enemy attacks if you time your blocks at the precise moment the enemy is about to strike. It's crucial to keep in mind that each enemy behaves uniquely, requiring careful observation to successfully execute a parry.

Successfully landing a parry on shielded enemies render them vulnerable.

How to Parry

Ranged Attacks Can Be Parried

Accurately time your parry to easily deflect ranged attacks from enemies just as the projectiles are about to hit.

Equip Powerful Amulets That Suit Your Playstyle

Amulets are equipped by Sargon to gain different advantages in the game. Amulets can be upgraded to make them even more effective. Do realize that you must equip amulets strategically as there will be a limit to how many you can equip at a time.

In the beginning of the game, Sargon will have access to three Amulet slots. It is best to get hold of Amulet Slots scattered throughout the game in order to increase the amulet necklace's capacity.

How to Get All Amulets

Use Your Bow and Chakram

The Bow and Chakram offer free-aim functionality, enabling precise targeting of specific enemies perceived as threats, you may also use this for some mechanisms in the game.

Note that your bow arrows can run out so it's best to use them wisely. Alternatively, you can stock your arrows by interacting with arrow stands or by defeating some enemies.

Complete Artaban's Challenges

Complete Artaban's Challenges in The Haven to further understand the combat system and learn combos that you can perform on enemies. You may also opt to train with a dummy enemy here to practice your skills on the basics of combat.

Completing Artaban's Challenges provides you with Time Crystals that can be used to purchase items.

How to Farm Time Crystals

Useful Combat Abilities

These combat techniques are advanced abilities learnt by Sargon throughout his journey to enhance his formidable skills.

1. Vengeful Counters
2. Time Powers
3. Athra Surges
4. Charged Attacks

Vengeful Counters

A Vengeful Counter is a type of parry that when executed correctly, Sargon will perform a finishing move that swiftly eliminates the enemy.

You must Look for a flashing yellow glint emitted by an enemy as a signal to initiate their attack.

Time Powers

Sargon can use different time powers throughout the game that prove valuable in both combat and non-combat scenarios. You may use these to your advantage whenever faced with multiple enemies at once to gain the upper hand.

Time Powers are very useful in traversing Mount Qaf because they help you solve puzzles and reach places that are otherwise difficult to reach.

All Time Powers and How to Unlock Them

Athra Surges

Athra Surges are powerful ultimate attacks Sargon can perform. These deadly attacks can be unleashed upon filling up the Athra Meter.

How to Unlock All Athra Surges

Charged Attacks

A unique ability Sargon can perform is a Charged Attack. This is a slow but heavy damage inflicter.

It's important to exercise caution because you may need to watch out for enemies attacking as charging your attack does not make you invulnerable.

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