With the action adventure God of War: Ragnarok, developer SCE Santa Monica Studio released the eagerly awaited sequel to God of War (2018) this year. This time, as the demigod Kratos, you’ll also plunge into exciting adventures and epic battles with your son Atreus. In our guide, we’ll show you the best skills for the father and son team so that you can give your enemies a run for their money with attack combos.
In the sequel to the video game series, Kratos as well as Atreus have been given three skill trees each. These must be leveled up in the course of the story with the ability points received. Kratos has the ability categories of technique, ranged combat and melee at his disposal. For Atreus, it’s instinct, archery, and aggression. The best skills in each category are presented below.
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God of War Ragnarok: These are the best skills for Kratos
The best melee skills of the Leviathan Axe
With the Wrath of Leviathan ability, you can perform a jump attack while sprinting by holding down the R2 button. The enemy is attacked with the frost elemental damage, causing them to stagger. When using this attack, pay attention to the time in which Kratos performs the technique, because during this time you can take damage without being able to defend yourself.
With the Evasive Storm ability, you perform a boomerang attack. This approach allows you to deal damage to enemies while dodging. The vortex throwing technique can also prove useful. Interrupt your melee attack and take the combat stance. Now press the R2 button to hurl your axe at the enemy. This melee and ranged combo will stagger normal enemies or even knock you to the ground.
The best ranged abilities of the Leviathan Axe
Arguably the best ranged ability for the Leviathan Axe is the Vengeful Sickle at levels 1 and 2. Hold down the R1 button to charge the weapon, and if you throw it at the enemy, it will keep spinning for more follow-up hits. Normal enemies cannot continue to attack when hit with the throw attack during the weapon rotation, and you can deal further damage with the Chaos Blades.
The best technique skills of the Leviathan Axe
One of the best abilities of the Leviathan Axe is Permafrost. When performing melee attacks, you take no damage and charge the axe with frost when hit. When the weapon is fully charged, you deal additional frost damage when attacking with the axe. In addition, a bonus is granted to the values of runic power and luck. The improved form of this ability is the icy permafrost. Once you have unlocked this improvement, you can deal extra damage by shooting frost waves with a charged weapon. If successfully hit, this can also interrupt enemy attacks or cause opponents to stagger.
With the frosty rise ability, you can make an upward attack while in active frost guard status. This flings your opponent into the air and deals higher frost damage.
The best melee skills of the Chaos Blades
The best melee attacks with the Chaos Blades in God of War include the ability Whirlpool Chaos and Chaos Cloud. When attacking with vortex chaos, dodge forward and press the R1 button. Kratos then performs jump attack, which he combines with a spin. The attack does less damage, but makes you more mobile in combat. To trigger Chaos Cloud, attack five times by pressing the R1 button and then finish the attack combo by pressing the R2 button. With it, you perform a powerful jump attack that deals fire damage and staggers normal enemies or sends them flying.
The best ranged abilities of the Chaos Blades
One of the best ranged abilities for the Chaos Blades is the Hyperion’s Grip. To use them, pierce your opponent with the blades and pull yourself towards them by pressing the R1 button. With your hit you cause stun as well as higher damage. Hyperion’s grip can be leveled up from level 1 to 2. Besides this ability, the blazing explosion is one of the best attacks in God of War Ragnarok. When using this you pierce the opponent with one of the blades and with R2 you attack additionally with the second blade. This sparks two waves of fire on a successful hit and does additional damage.
The best technique skills of the Chaos Blades
For the Chaos Blades, the Scorched Earth ability has proven itself, which is divided into 1 to 3 levels. While attacking with the flame whip, press the R2 button to ignite a fire explosion on the ground with the blades. The short wait during the application of the technique is worth it, as you can use it to interrupt even attacks from stronger opponents.
To stand your ground against stronger enemies or bosses, the Chaos Blade skill Burn is recommended. If you deal damage to your enemies without getting hit yourself, you charge the blades with fire. Once you’ve fully filled up the bar with it, press L1 and triangle to unleash the charged flame elemental damage on your enemies. If you have unlocked the raging burn skill expansion, the blades deal explosion damage in addition to fire when attacking.
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God of War Ragnarok: These are the best skills for Atreus
The best instinct skill for the archer
One of the best skills in Atreus’ skill category is Vigilant Protector. Once executed, the young archer attracts the attention of opponents for a short period of time. Once that happens, you can attack undisturbed with full Kratos power and also perform stronger attack combos.
The best archery skills for Atreus
To be able to stun your opponents, you can use the ability Sonic Effectiveness. A hit with the sonic arrows can stun your enemies, dealing damage over a wider area. A good addition to this is sonic echo: When you attack enemies hit by sound, you trigger a sound wave that also stuns nearby enemies.
The best aggression skill
Equipped with the Punch ability, Atreus will stagger your opponents when hit. Follow-up attacks can also trigger the stun state.
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