Nioh: How to Get the Best Ninja Skills

 Nioh: Best Ninja Active Skills

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Active skills are abilities that you actually perform. For the Ninja tree, these revolve around small, thrown weapons, and specially made medicine that can boost your abilities or prevent certain types of damage. These must all be readied or else they can’t be used, and they have finite uses. They’re basically free consumables that you get, and once readied you can see them in your inventory with green counts. You don’t have to buy more or craft any when wasted, just visit a shrine and all will be restored.

Kunai: You’ll need to unlock the Shuriken first, but this thrown blade is more powerful. Considering the fact that they don’t do much damage to begin with, you’ll want something with a bit more oomph to really bring down enemy Ki. You’ll be able to carry seven of these deadly blades once unlocked, and they are perfect for drawing enemy attention or interrupting attacks so you can get in and dominate. Raising the level of this skill (which requires beating The Way of the Ninja Dojo mission on Adept and Veteran) lowers the Jutsu cost, making room for more Ninja skills in your repertoire.

Medicine Shikin-gan Pill: Paralysis is a serious issue in Nioh, something anyone who’s faced Hino-Enma can attest to. More often than not, getting paralyzed instantly means a gave over, more so than the other status affects you can be inflicted with. This remedy allows you to resist paralysis for a set period of time, giving you space to kick ass.

Blinding Shell: Ranged enemies can be hell in Nioh, so this Ninja skill halts them temporarily. Any enemy caught in the blast of what is essentially a flash grenade will be unable to used ranged weapons, allowing you to close the gap.

Fire Mega Horoku-dama: To be honest, most of the grenade style weapons aren’t very powerful, proving to be more of a minor annoyance to enemies you’d actually need to use them on. This Ninja skill grants you one really powerful grenade that’s great in a pinch or against an annoying boss.  You’ll have to clear Way of the Ninja: Novice first, but you unlock that right after the first mission.

Improvised Projectile: This is a must have for players who love to rely on Bows or Guns. You’ll receive two scrolls that allow you to fire either of those weapons even if you have no ammo.

Smoke Ball: Become a true shinobi (or Batman) as you instantly surround yourself with a cloud of smoke to make a swift getaway. This is useful for Dual Sword and Kusarigama builds as they’re usually low on health and strength, so they can definitely be caught in tricky situations.

Quick Change: After completing Way of the Ninja: Novice, you’ll be able to unlock this scroll that allows you to survive a death blow, giving you time to pop an Elixir or get the heck out of danger. With how easy it is to be instantly killed, this can be useful in a pinch.

Sneak Attack: Backstabbing enemies will be a lifesaver in many parts of the game. Being able to do massive damage on an enemy before they have a chance to react will make your life much easier in Nioh. 


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