When you are playing an action-packed game, you want to have the best skills right from the start. In a game as big as God of War Ragnarok, skills not only make the combat encounter different but also at the same time will make you feel good doing them. The game does get difficult, but having some good skills on your back will save you from plenty of game-overs. This guide will let you know all about the best skills that you can unlock in God of War Ragnarok.
How To Unlock New Skills In God Of War Ragnarok?
You will need to upgrade the weapon to gain access to the next tier upgrades for the skills. Upgrading it will raise the weapon stats as well.
- Leviathan Axe – Requires Frozen Flame to level up.
- Blade of Chaos – Requires Chaos Flame to level up.
- Draupnir Spear – Requires Gale Flame to level up.
- Thrungva – Requires Folkvangr Whetstone to level up.
Some of these materials are easily obtainable during the main questline, but some of them are hidden behind side quests and hidden bosses.
List Of Best Skills To Unlock Early In God Of War Ragnarok
Vaporise Frost (Leviathan Axe)
If you are like me, you like to freeze the enemies before they make any move. While you could hit the frozen enemies with more axe chops, with the skill Vaporise Frost, after you freeze the enemies, take out the Blade of Chaos and start doing insane combos on the enemies. Vaporise Frost allows the frozen enemies to take more damage from the blades. A must-have skill if you are starting in the game. You need to get used to the system as quickly as possible, as most of the gameplay will rely on the status effects.
Extinguish Flames (Blade of Chaos)
The exact opposite of the previous skill ‘Vaporise Frost’. Any enemy you burn with the blades will take more damage from the Leviathan axe melee attacks. Both Vaporise Frost and Extinguish Flames are perfect if you are switching between weapons mid-fight.
Make sure to pull the other weapon fast because the status effects don’t stay on the enemies for too long. Picking up the timing of the effect’s duration will help you immensely in the later fights in the game. Vaporise Frost and Extinguish Flames– are two of the best skills you need to have right away.
Frozen Ascent (Leviathan Axe)
Lifting the enemies in the air and start-pulling a 4-hit slash combo in mid-air is something you don’t want to miss out on when you are playing a game like God of War. You need to be in the Frost Awaken state wielding the leviathan axe to do the Frozen Ascent.
There are combos you can do once you juggle multiple enemies in the air since Frozen Ascent is an AOE-based skill. After a quick frozen status, change the weapon to Blade of Chaos and slam the enemy to the ground. It is one of the best skills you need to unlock right away. Once you get the hang of it, you will be doing this move even in the new game +.
Glacial Rake (Leviathan Axe)
It is one of the coolest moves in the game, where you drag your axe on the ground and release a tidal wave of ice shards in front of you. Glacial Rake is one of the best ways to add the Frost Status to the enemies. Frost status not only makes the enemies slower, but you can also add other skills to do more damage to them.
Serpent’s Snare (Leviathan Axe)
A brutal move to do in the game, where Kratos will grab the enemy with his axe and throw their body at a distance creating massive damage and a frost explosion on impact. A perfect technique to execute if you are dealing with groups, just pick one of them with the axe and throw his body at his friends. Or better, in some areas, you will be so high up in the air, that it will make sense to use the Serpent’s Snare on the enemy to throw them out of the platform into the abyss.
Flame Whiplash (Blade of Chaos)
Having a hard time burning down enemies? Then open up the flame whiplash, where you swing your blades until it burns up and hit anyone who comes your way.
More swings will lead to more charge, pick a perfect time and place far away from the enemies to move, so by the time the enemy gets close to you, you can rearrange their face with the fire from Blade of Chaos. Then you can quickly pull out the axe for extra damage with the Extinguish Flame skill active.
Chaotic Rampage (Blade of Chaos)
Chaotic Rampage turns the blades into a solo-focused damage weapon, instead of AOE damage, Chaotic Rampage allows the blades to deal high damage to a single enemy. A perfect skill for the boss fights or any remaining enemies in the area.
All the skills mentioned above can be improved by adding Skill Mods. Unlocking Skill Mods for any skill requires you to perform the same skill a certain number of times. You can go to the menu to check the numbers, it is separated into Bronze, Silver, and Gold. When you reach the Gold status for a skill, you will be allowed to add Skll Mods to improve the skill.
The skill mods will be different amongst the skills in the game, some of them increase defense while some will add more elemental bonus damage to the skill. The game allows you to switch between the skill mods and deactivate the skills from the menu. If pressing the buttons makes Kratos pull out different sets of combos then you have the option to deactivate the skill to make it more optimized for your playthrough.
Along with weapons and skills, Shields also form a vital part of combat in the game. If you are looking for which ones are the best shields in the God Of War Ragnarok, we have put up a detailed guide explaining exactly that.