Black Myth Wukong's best skills and abilities

The best Black Myth Wukong skills enhance the Destined One's best abilities and attacks, making them mightily powerful. For example, the Composure and Exhilaration skills add useful improvements that you'll benefit from often.

This obviously comes at the cost of improving the rest of the Destined One's powers (although there are some notable exceptions) in Black Myth Wukong, but doubling down on the good stuff will help you a lot. Below, we’ve outlined our recommendations for the Black Myth Wukong’s best skills and abilities, as well as how to respec and reset them.

All Black Myth Wukong best skills

Having played through Black Myth Wukong, these are our recommendations for the best skills that new players should prioritize getting ASAP, or at least try out with a strong eye to keeping them:

• Composure (Foundation/Stamina): Allows you to dodge during the light attack combo without ending it. Considering how often you use this combo and that its most significant impact comes when you end it, this actually makes reaching the ending viable.
• Punishing Downpour (Foundation/Martial Arts): If you land enough hits in the light attack combo, the finisher does extra splash damage. Devastating when you're fighting groups or agile enemies, especially when paired with Composure.
• Exhilaration (Staff Stances): Grants small health regen when consuming a focus point - but considering how often you spend Focus points, that's substantial.
• Force Unbound (Staff Stances/Smash Stance): Allows you to charge your Smash while sprinting. A great way to open fights - close the distance and stove their head in.
• Deadly Dance (Thrust Stance/Staff Stances): Spending 4 Focus Points allows players to do a heavy attack immediately when rolling back or perfect dodging. This is the game-changer upgrade that brings Thrust Stance up to par with the Smash Stance.
• Spirit Shards (Immobilize/Mysticism): Because mana in Black Myth Wukong is so hard to regain, this upgrade repaying some of the Mana cost of the helpful Immobilize spell if you can crash them is really helpful.
• Everything for the Rock Solid Spell (Alteration): The Rock Solid parry spell learned in Chapter 2 is incredibly useful in battle, and just about every skill on its tree is helpful. Max this spell out for the best result.

How to respec and reset Skills in Black Myth Wukong

At any point you can respec your skills in Black Myth Wukong by going to one of the Shrine Checkpoints and selecting the option to "Reignite the Sparks" in the Self-Advance menu.

This is a cost-free and consequence-free way to get all your skill point "Sparks" back, meaning you can rebuild your version of the Destined One at any point.

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