Best Duo Skills In Ys X: Nordics

Summary

• Ys X: Nordics features powerful and unique Duo Skills that require strategic selection based on enemy encounters.
• Some early Duo Skills like Admas Saber offer defensive benefits but lack the impact of more offensive options.
• Skills like Ragna Disaster provide massive damage output, debuffs, and AoE effects, making them crucial for challenging battles.

The brave Ys series is beginning to hook more players with each marvelously polished title. Ys X: Nordics takes you straight into another one of Adol’s journals. After becoming bound to the Norman Princess, Karja, they both must work together to defeat the immortal creatures known as the Griegr and free Obelia Gulf from their torment.

You have access to many skills throughout the adventure to engage these enemies in complex, deep combat. By combing both Adol and Karja’s united strength, you can unleash brutal Duo Skills in Duo Mode. These skills are your most devastating tools for obliterating any foes that stand in your way. Knowing which are the best to equip in your three slots is important.

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Admas Saber

A Wasted Skill Slot

Admas Saber is one of the early Duo Skills you unlock that focuses on defense. It shields you both from attacks when activated and then Adol will slash back at the opponent, knocking them back, giving you some space to either attack back or reposition yourself.

Unfortunately, this just ends up being quite weak as you would be better off equipping a skill that does more damage, since you can guard almost every attack while in Duo Mode. The perks of it being a counter-attack are nullified when almost every enemy or boss has lenient attack patterns that give you more than enough time to strike them back after guarding.

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Cross Edge

Simple Yet Effective

The first Duo Skill you can unlock is Cross Edge. This attack is a straightforward move that has the two heroes vertically slash up in a cross shape to launch foes. It has a decent Power of 285, but with little other effects outside the damage, it feels more like a Solo Skill than a Duo one. As you unlock more skills later in the game, it becomes outclassed fast.

Other early-game skills have good effects or strong Power stats, but Cross Edge only has a decent Strength stat and the Launch effect, which is very common in the Duo Skills. The only positive it has over other skills is the cheaper SP cost with it only using 80 SP, which could make you want to use it if you dislike how much other options use.

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Dueluces Burst

The Power Of A Princess And An Adventurer

With the power of water and fire at your disposal, some of the Duo Skills unleash lethal attacks, mixing the two elements for damage like no other. The Dueluces Burst skill has a fire and water ball spinning together as projectiles until they collide together where they will shortly vacuum up nearby enemies to then explode and launch them in a spectacular bang.

While being quite easy to spam from afar alongside decent damage, this skill just doesn’t do enough to warrant equipping over the other ones. If this skill perhaps gave the enemies Burn or Frostbite, or maybe was just a bit stronger in the Power stat, then you would see it being a must-use, but as it is, it is only a good disruption tool, which is not great for 90 SP.

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Double Smash

A Powerful First Impression

Double Smash is the very first Duo Skill you obtain, but do not assume that this means it is weak. This skill is a high power skill that has both Karja and Adol leap up and then slam back down, causing the smash effect on any enemies caught in the attack.

With the second-highest Break stat of all the Duo Skills and a decent Power of 310, this is a skill that can be great for any Break build. You may want to focus Karja around Break skills, but if you have this Duo Skill, you won’t have to dedicate all her skills to Break-focused effects.

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Twin Vortex

Let ‘Em Rip

One of the most deadly looking Duo Skills has to be the Twin Vortex. In this attack, both Adol and Karja become a giant Beyblade tornado, spinning everything around them and launching it all up. This can rip through and control the battle in your favor by displacing the enemies all around you while getting some nice damage.

Now this all sounds like it would make a great skill, and it is with its decent attack and giant AoE hit box. However, then you look at how much SP it costs; 140! This is way too much for an attack that really does not do much at all, only launching foes to briefly stun them. If the cost was only 100 -110 SP, it would be fine, but as it stands, it doesn’t make wasting 140 SP worth it.

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Blazal Cross

Slashing On Through

Blazal Cross is a tricky skill with a huge payoff of damage. This involves Adol and Karja dashing diagonally past one another and then finishing with a slash each to send a giant V-shaped beam ahead of where they stopped. Issues start to form with this once you try to use it, however, as it requires you to be lined up perfectly, which makes it feel quite awkward in combat.

If you can master how it works and get the right spacing to use this skill, it is very strong with its Power stat of 380, but we recommend practicing using it on smaller enemies before equipping it for any story or boss fights. The last thing you want to do is waste 110 SP and leave yourself vulnerable right in the face of your enemy.

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Hárr’s Judgment

Fire From The Depths

Combust your foes away with Adol’s Duo Skill that puts his blazing powers at the forefront. Alongside Karja, they strike the ground together to charge up an eruption of flames in a line that causes Burn debuffs, alongside slamming and then launching all foes caught in the mini volcanoes.

Many Duo Skills often have a small range, but this one shows the destructive power of Adol with a massive 350 Power stat and a large damaging area. Only costing 120 SP, it is cheap for such a destructive skill.

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Xena Striker

You Are The Weapon

The shackle that binds both Adol and Karja is not always a restriction for the two, and they both find creative ways to use it to their advantage. Xena Striker has them swinging the other using the Mana shackle right into your foes, causing either a massive explosion of flames or a sharp crash of ice.

The attack not only looks powerful but is also able to tear through enemies, causing the respective Burn or Frostbite effect depending on who you swing. Alongside a strong stat for Strength, Break and Power, this skill is a secret powerhouse that can deal with whatever is in your path, all while applying helpful debuffs.

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Niflmuspel

Cracking Through Enemy Defenses Like Ice

This skill focuses on Karja’s powers, in which she will freeze the enemies in front of her and then Adol jumps up to smash the ice, causing the launch effect. This also gives the enemy the Frostbite effect and has the highest Break stat of any Duo Skill at 3.8. This means that you can easily shred through an enemy’s Break Bar with a simple skill use.

The Frostbite debuff really takes this skill to another level. It grants the effect of doubling any damage dealt by your attacks while it is active, which is incredible when stacked with a broken Break Bar. Surprisingly, it is one of the cheaper Duo Skills at 100 SP, which means you can fully capitalize off the enemy’s state with a strong Solo Skill after.

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Frostflame Twinslash

A Thousand Slashes Of Pure Destruction

Combining both of our heroes’ strengths once more, this skill sees them rushing forward and rapidly slashing many times to annihilate everything. The best part of this skill is it has the vacuum effect, which causes nearby enemies to be sucked into the attack, meaning it is one of the best skills for dealing a ton of AoE damage.

This skill is costly to use with it taking 190 SP, but can be well worth it if you just need to quickly get rid of a large group, as the vacuum and launch effects will guarantee you will be able to completely wipe out any number of foes. The flashy anime-looking attack really does a great job portraying just how strong it is.

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Ragna Disaster

The Final Ultimate Super Mega Duo Skill Of Mythic Legends

This skill is the final Duo Skill and is well worth the grind. Ragna Disaster is quite possibly the most destructive skill in the series yet. Using a whopping 200 SP, both Adol and Karja will begin firing giant hyper-powered beams that deal tons of damage. Not only does this devastate the entire battlefield with the AoE, but it also causes Frostbite and Burn debuffs.

Furthermore, this skill also happens to be the strongest in the game in terms of stats. It sits at a massive 575 Power, and a huge Strength stat of five. If you use this skill while you have your Revenge Gauge maxed, there will be little that can survive the destruction that follows.