Best Abilities In AC: Odyssey

A charged bow strike that deals outrageous damage, but uses three adrenaline chunks. This is a fantastic opener to a fight, and a way to drop some powerful enemies in one shot.

Deals ranged damage in a three-meter area, dealing solid damage to every enemy inside. This is exponentially better the more enemies are in the radius, and can be used mid-fight or as an opener.

A charged bow strike that deals great damage, and increases damage the more charged the shot is. Poison and Fire buildup is increased.

An arrow that deals extraordinary damage, has increased range, and can be controlled in midair for precise shots and shots.

For ten seconds, deal 20% extra damage and become incapable of being dealt lethal damage. The real value in this is the ability to stave off death, giving you the chance to get yourself into a better position.

Heal 25% of your health, allowing you to sustain yourself in prolonged engagements.

Slow time for 5 five seconds, allowing you to fight nearly uncontested. This is particularly useful when outnumbered by enemies, giving you a ton of different offensive and defensive options.

An extra-lethal stealth attack. Considering a lethal stealth attacks enable you to eliminate an enemy without alerting any others, this can make a tremendous difference throughout the game.

This increases assassination damage by 20%, and enemies are automatically looted when you assassinate them. Ensuring an assassination is lethal is crucial to staying undetected, and automatically looting enemies is going to save you a lot of time in the long run.

A charged melee attack that either knocks enemies back or gets inside their shield. A great ability for fighting enemies with shields.

This increases warrior damage by 20%. This is going to make a particular difference in fights against bosses.

This increases hunter damage by 20%, and ensures you don’t consume arrows when you use a hunter ability. This is going to save you a tremendous amount of arrows, especially when using attacks that fire many arrows at the same time.

Shoot up to four enemies with a single ability, dealing solid damage to every enemy. If you have some distance from a group of enemies, this can be particularly effective.

Slow time for five seconds when spotted by an enemy, and lock onto enemies with ease.

Deal an extraordinary amount of damage on a weapon combo that consumes three adrenaline chunks.

Imbue your weapons with a fire effect for 15 seconds, building up flame over time that burns the enemy with a damage-over-time (DoT) effect when full.

Deal damage and break small shields. This is invaluable when fighting shield enemies.

Imbue your weapons with a poison effect for 15 seconds, building up poison over time that deals DoT to enemies and reduces their damage and armor when full.

Launch toward an enemy at range, assassinating them, with the possibility of chaining one more enemy. If you have two enemies that cannot be taken out individually without alerting each other, this can sometimes be the only way to deal with the situation quietly.

Reveal all chests, hidden passages, and enemies inside 15 meters. During exploration, and when sneaking in areas with a lot of enemies, this is going to get heavy use.

Fire an arrow that can pass through objects and enemies, dealing solid damage. This is going to be very situational, but one of the only ways to damage an enemy in the right circumstance.

Stun and deal damage to enemies inside three meters. This is useful when surrounded, but ideally when you have another more powerful ability to capitalize on it.

Reduce the noise you make while moving and assassinating. This is going to make stealth situations easier, but the noise reduction doesn’t come into play super often.

Call a Lieutenant to your side to attack enemies for 30 seconds, allowing you to escape, or giving you backup.

Stun nearby enemies for six seconds, giving you time to escape a hopeless situation. This can be an easy way to reset your stealth options and regain the ability to assassinate enemies.

Increase your armor by 30%. If you get hit often, this will come into play regularly. But if you’re adept at dodging enemy attacks, this ability isn’t going to help much.

Tame an unconscious wolf, and have that wolf fight alongside you. This can only be done with one wolf at a time.

Gain the ability to craft paralyzing arrows a non-lethal ranged option. If you aren’t looking to take enemies down non-lethally, this won’t have much use.

Fire three arrows at the same time in a horizontal line in front of you. This gives a kind of shotgun palette that can hit multiple enemies at once. At its best this can be very useful, but situations in which enemies line up perfectly for this are going to be rare.

Increases the fire buildup caused by Flaming Attacks by 25%, igniting and dealing DoT to your target quicker.

Increases the poison buildup caused by Poison Attacks by 25%, dealing DoT and reducing your target’s armor quicker.

Launch toward enemies, dealing damage and knocking them down. This can be difficult to aim properly, and will occasionally lead to you missing enemies entirely.

Become invisible when out of conflict. You will not be able to move without becoming visible, and this will drain stamina quickly.

A melee attack using the Spear of Leonidas, knocking an enemy down and dealing heavy damage.

Launches an enemy, dealing damage. Targets won’t die, but can be recruited. This ability looks incredibly cool, but is extremely situational and does not do much damage.