All weapons in Assassin’s Creed Shadows

There are eight weapons in Murderer’s Creed Shadows — not together with the notorious hidden blade of the Assassins. Every weapon has its personal fashion, and may solely be utilized by one of many sport’s two playable protagonists, Naoe or Yasuke.

On this Murderer’s Creed Shadows information, we’ll go over the checklist of weapons accessible to Naoe and Yasuke, and supply some particulars on the way you get new weapons, alongside details about how weapon afflictions work. Or in the event you’re on the lookout for a curated choice, right here’s our checklist of one of the best weapons in Murderer’s Creed Shadows.

Replace (March 28): Added details about weapon afflictions.

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Naoe begins together with her easy katana weapon, and also you’ll want to seek out her different weapon sorts as random loot drops from chests or as rewards for finishing quests. The identical goes for Yasuke — when you unlock him — as he solely has his lengthy katana whenever you first meet him.

If you wish to rapidly take a look at out every character’s different weapons, head to a gear vendor in a significant metropolis. The one in Sakai, one of many sport’s earliest port cities, may be discovered in the midst of city.

These distributors will promote frequent variations of each sort of weapon within the sport close to or at your degree cap. By spending a bit money, you’ll be able to absolutely reveal each characters’ talent bushes, so you’ll be able to look by way of them and decide the place you need to make investments your mastery factors sooner or later. (Weapon talent bushes stay hidden till you purchase their first corresponding weapon.)

Should you’re on the lookout for greater tier weapons, you will get legendary variations of every sort of melee weapon by taking up the sport’s principal story — i.e., killing the key targets in your Aims menu. Nevertheless, a few of these targets are fairly excessive degree, so that you is likely to be higher sticking with lower-rarity variations of every weapon till you degree up.

All weapon afflictions in Murderer’s Creed Shadows

All weapons within the sport, no matter rarity, deal uncooked harm, which means they merely take away well being and armor whenever you efficiently land a success. Nevertheless, some melee weapons — sometimes these with greater rarity ranges — have afflictions related to them, which deal further varieties of harm, like poison, or have an impact related to them, like daze.

There are three completely different affliction sorts that your weapons can roll with:

There are weapons in every class of melee weapon which have the possibility to have an affliction perk. (When you can technically hearth poison arrows as Yasuke, that’s a talent you’ll need to unlock with mastery factors, and equip as particular ammo — it’s not tied to any bows you’ll discover.)

In Murderer’s Creed Shadows, whether or not or not a weapon has an affliction related to it’s decided by extra than simply its identify. For instance, the Bloody Katana of Service and the Silent Katana of Wounding are each katanas that inflict bleed.

The trick right here is to disregard the identify and as an alternative concentrate on the stats. On weapons that trigger an affliction on the goal, you’ll see “[affliction type] buildup” because the fourth stat on the checklist. You’ll be able to see this in motion on the picture above, the place the legendary tanto Yukimitsu’s Revenge says “poison buildup” on its stat block, which is how you recognize it offers poison harm.

Naoe can use three weapons in open fight, as she’s primarily constructed to assault from the shadows. What she lacks in weapon energy, she makes up for together with her instruments, just like the shuriken and kunai.

Listed below are the weapons Naoe can use:

We’ll break down how every weapon works beneath.

The katana is essentially the most fundamental of Naoe’s weapons. And whereas she does sometimes maintain it inverted — which means the blade runs alongside her forearm slightly than extending previous her hand — it performs like a sword. You’ll be able to parry enemies with correct timing, or slice them to ribbons by continually urgent the assault button.

The katana’s abilities place it as Naoe’s most defensive weapon, permitting you to capitalize on parries and dodges with highly effective follow-up assaults.

The kusarigama is basically a small sickle connected to a protracted chain that has a giant, metallic ball connected to the opposite facet. Your mild assaults use the sickle as a close-quarters blade, which you should use to slice single enemies. Your heavy assault, nonetheless, sees you swing the ball and chain round your head, hitting a number of enemies directly.

The kusarigama’s abilities will let you higher management the battlefield, with some permitting you to yank enemies into one another with the weapon’s chain.

The tanto is basically only a dagger or a half-length katana. Nevertheless, the sport treats it as two daggers, since Naoe additionally extends and fights together with her Murderer’s hidden blade whereas the tanto is out. This makes for very fast combos with each mild and heavy assaults, which embody dodging across the sides of enemies to extra simply get at their backs.

The tanto’s abilities cement it because the true weapon of an Murderer, permitting you to each assassinate targets mid-combat and double assassinate unsuspecting enemies.

Yasuke can use 5 weapons when he will get into scraps. Since he lacks Naoe’s instruments, he can exchange one (or each) of his melee weapons with a ranged weapon just like the bow or teppo, which use ammo that may be bought from distributors or collected from enemy camps.

Listed below are the weapons Yasuke can use:

We’ll break down how every weapon works beneath.

The lengthy katana is a katana however lengthy. Which will sound sarcastic — and it’s a little bit, if we’re being trustworthy — but it surely’s additionally true. Yasuke is a giant man and he has a giant katana to suit. He holds the katana upright — not like Naoe — and makes use of it to duel enemies. The most important distinction from Naoe’s katana is that Yasuke’s is large enough for him to rapidly minimize by way of armor and skewer enemies so he can then elevate them into the air.

The lengthy katana’s abilities assist safe its spot as a dueling weapon, additional incentivizing you to parry assaults.

The naginata is a katana blade on a protracted stick. This factor is an element bo workers (suppose Donatello from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) and half spear. It has huge, sweeping assaults that make it nice for crowd management. The naginata additionally has very lengthy attain, which lets you assault from a safer distance than most different melee weapons, making a it an amazing device for coping with excessive degree enemies.

The naginata abilities assist push it additional into an space weapon, whereas additionally incentivizing you to place correctly, providing you with bonus harm whenever you hit enemies with its tip.

The kanabo is basically only a huge baseball bat. However as an alternative of a easy floor, it has little metallic bumps implanted into the floor to assist it deal further harm. This weapon could be very gradual, but it surely bashes by way of enemy armor and staggers them very simply.

Kanabo abilities enable you break enemies even sooner by permitting you to velocity up sequential hits and mix mild and heavy assaults collectively into devastating combos.

The teppo is a musket-like rifle. It makes use of bullets (that are finite, however simply changed on the planet) to blast by way of enemy armor and make fast work of unarmored foes. It’s agonizingly gradual to reload, nonetheless, making it nice for single pictures that lead into close-quarters fight.

The teppo’s abilities assist it develop into a extra environment friendly sniper weapon, permitting it to deal bonus harm whenever you stand nonetheless for a short while and shred armor extra effectively.

The bow is an enormous longbow that Yasuke can use to select targets off from a distance with out making a lot noise, making fight as soon as found considerably simpler. The quiver has a finite quantity of arrows, however you’ll be able to improve Yasuke’s ammo capability to carry many arrows directly. Like bullets, you will discover stations that replenish arrows world wide and in castles.

The bow’s abilities enable you hearth off arrows extra rapidly and provide you with entry to further arrow sorts, like silent arrows that give Yasuke a robust stealth choice to open a battle.

For extra Murderer’s Creed Shadows explainers, right here’s learn how to get extra data factors and mastery factors, learn how to get extra rations, learn how to get extra scouts, and learn how to get all companions and romance choices. Plus, see our all armor checklist.