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black myth Wukong is just packed with
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hidden items special mechanics and even
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secret bosses including some in the
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starting region that you don't want to
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miss out on for example once you talk
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with the wise master who you'll find
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within the first hour or two he'll
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enchant your gourd you probably already
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saw that this lets you collect the
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spirits Left Behind after defeating a
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boss which each give you a special
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ability basically letting you transform
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into that boss briefly and use one of
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their attacks but the enchantment also
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gives you another benefit when you
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collect wandering Spirits so one of the
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green floating ones you find tucked away
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in corners and side paths it will give
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you a healing charge back in your gourd
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so if you could use a bit of healing and
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your gourd is already full it's smart to
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drink from the gourd before collecting
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the spirits you might also want to think
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about saving those spirits to collect
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after you've cleared out enemies in the
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surrounding area so you can use the
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spirit to gain a bit of healing back
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without resting at a shrine eventually
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you'll also come across some regular
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enemies that are glowing blue and these
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guys also give you a special spe IR
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ability plus absorbing the spirit will
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fully recharge your gourd that's true
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for bosses as well and by the way if you
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took down a boss early on like the
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wandering white you might have been a
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bit confused about why you couldn't
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collect the spirit but don't worry
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Spirits for any bosses defeated before
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getting the enchantment will be saved
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for you under the cultivate Spirits tab
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at the shrines these Spirit abilities
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can be pretty strong so it's definitely
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worth seeking out bosses to collect them
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and some bosses are missable you can go
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back to them later but you might want
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those abilities before moving forward
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and keep in mind the spirit abilities
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have a passive bonus as well for example
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the wandering white gives you plus 20
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defense so you definitely want to do a
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lot of exploring and also check the shop
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inventories often for example I was
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surprised to find when I went back to
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the first region after moving on that
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there was this back scratcher curio for
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sale in the shop the game doesn't really
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tell you this but after you complete a
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region new items will become available
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in the shop in that region and you need
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to go back to find them this back
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scratcher curio gives a really nice
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boost to your max stamina so it's
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definitely worth checking those out
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something else the game doesn't really
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tell you about explicitly are relics
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which you get after defeating a regional
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boss these relics give some options for
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nice special abilities but you need to
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go into the menu and choose which one
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you want to activate it so you want to
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check for that after completing each
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region you also definitely want to be
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searching around every Arena after a
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boss fight there's pretty much always at
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least one special item around the Arenas
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or a special object to interact with
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that will unlock something later on
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you've probably already found items like
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the celestial medicine pills which
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increase your max Health Mana or stamina
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but there are much more complex secrets
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too like if you ring all three giant
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Bells found near bosses on Black Wind
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Mountain it will unlock a special Shrine
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you can travel to for a secret boss
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fight secret bosses at these shrines
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give special vessel items with unique
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abilities as well as some other rewards
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back out exploring though you want to
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keep an eye out for chests that are
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disguised to look like environmental
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objects like these chests that look like
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logs now if you have the deluxe edition
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you'll also get a special curio called
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the Windchime after reaching the second
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Shrine in the game the game doesn't tell
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you about this but the Windchime gives a
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nice little boost to movement speed and
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you won't have any other curios to equip
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at this time anyway so it's definitely
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worth using not always being clearly
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told you've obtained new items or that
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there are new items available in the
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shop is definitely a pattern in this
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game so you always want to be checking
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things like curios every so often to
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make sure you're not missing out on
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something good another example is it's
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not totally clear that you can craft the
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Pilgrim's armor once you reach the Guan
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Temple Shrine right before heading into
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a boss fight there are a lot of armors
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like this that will just show up as
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craftable at shrines as you progress and
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they just get better and better as you
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go so always check to see if there's new
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armor available to craft you might have
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also noticed these numbers next to some
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of the perks on gear items these
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indicate how many pieces of that armor
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set you need equipped in order for the
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effect to be activated generally you
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want to make sure you have enough pieces
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from a set equipped to have at least one
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of those abilities active so you don't
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want to mix and match armor too much but
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there is certainly potential to create
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some builds that mix a few different set
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pieces now I also want to show you some
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hidden useful combat tricks and the best
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skills to grab early on but first let's
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check out a few settings you might want
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to adjust first off there are Auto
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targeting and auto lockon settings which
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are both off by default Auto lockon is
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something you're probably familiar with
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from other games it just means your
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camera is automatically going to rotate
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to keep an enemy in view so you can
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track them more easily and don't have to
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do it manually but Auto targeting is a
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little different turning this on will
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make your attacks automatically land on
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the enemy when you're close enough for
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them to do so by default it's off and
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you actually need to direct your attack
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a bit with the movement stick towards
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the enemy to make sure it lands
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personally I like leaving this off but
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if you feel like your attacks just
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aren't Landing a lot of the time try
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toggling it on there's also this setting
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for descriptive information which is
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actually really nice because it lets you
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view the descriptions for items like
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potions without going into the menu you
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just hold the button down longer and
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they pop right up if you're using a
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controller you can also toggle input
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type between A or B it's on a by default
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but for me B is more like what I'm used
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to in other games you can also swap jump
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and Dodge if you want to and on PC
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you'll have an additional setting for
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controller type which just forces the
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game to display either Xbox or
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Playstation glyphs if you're seeing the
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wrong ones I'll also point out the
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headgear setting this lets you turn a
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piece of headgear invisible if you don't
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like the look but you'll still have it
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equipped so you're not sacrificing any
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benefits but let's talk about skills I
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think the most important thing to
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realize is that the stances category has
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a lot of important ones to grab early on
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in addition to the stance specific
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skills there's also the focused attack
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series all the way on the left side here
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these unlock based on how many points
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you invest in the rest of the skills on
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this page and they give you additional
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Focus charges which is super important
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since focus is a really key part of the
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combat system we'll talk more about
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focus in a second but I would highly
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recommend investing most of your early
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skill points into skills on this page
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putting a few Sparks in the top row
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skills of each of the trees in the
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foundation category is also a good idea
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but you're going to want the bulk of
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your first 20 to 30 Sparks in the
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stances category and specifically I
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think it's best to focus on the ones
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under the default smash stance as well
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as a few of these extra skills on the
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left side I know it's tempting to start
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using pillar and thrust as soon as you
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can unlock them and you should totally
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try them out that's the beauty of being
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able to Respec your skills which you can
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do by going into the reignite Sparks
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option at a shrine you can reset all of
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them just one category or individual
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Sparks but here's the thing with stances
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they become so much more effective once
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you invest Sparks into their trees so I
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think it's best to focus on one stance
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first instead of spreading points across
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all of them smash can deal a lot of
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damage quickly and it's really easy and
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fast to charge up if you unlock Force
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Unbound and invest some points into
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Quick hand so I would defin Ely
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recommend focusing on Smash first in
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that smash tree you're going to find
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Resolute counter flow winding wind and
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Skyfall strike all of which I would grab
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early and try to get used to using their
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Associated combos as soon as you can
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they're a really good way to deal damage
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and you're much safer than you think
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while using them to pull off Resolute
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strike you need to have at least one
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Focus charge built up which is this
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glowing dot in the bottom right gauge
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then land at least one light attack and
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then immediately hit the heavy attack
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button but if you have more than one
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Focus charge built up then you can hit
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heavy attack again to do the Skyfall
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strike I'll get into more detail on
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those combos and a bunch of other combat
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tips in a dedicated video but let me
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show you some simpler combat tips first
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my favorite and the one I use all the
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time is the jump attack while holding
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the movement input towards an enemy just
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jump and hit the light attack button
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you'll jump off them dealing some damage
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and gaining a fair amount of focus
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buildup the best thing about this though
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is that it's fast and Pops you back out
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to a pretty safe distance you can also
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just keep repeating it as long as you
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stay close close enough and have the
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stamina to do it I find this move really
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useful to fall back on when an enemy
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isn't giving me a clear window to attack
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with a normal light attack combo you can
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also enhance this jump attack by hitting
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the heavy attack button immediately
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after the light attack button while
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you're still in the air this deals more
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damage and it's one of the rare
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instances where using the heavy attack
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without a focus charge builtup is
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actually useful now the full regular
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light attack combo is five moves long
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with the strongest hit coming from the
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Fifth and final move notice how each of
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the first four moves has the staff
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swinging backwards towards the screen
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and you at the end that's the best
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signal I found to use to paste my button
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presses and avoid button mashing it's a
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good idea to practice this outside of
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combat and just do one move at a time to
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get a feel for when they end it's right
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before the end that you want to hit the
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button for the next one but keep in mind
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attacks use stamina and you won't be
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able to pull off that powerful fifth
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move if you don't have any stamina so
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you don't want to totally just Spam
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light attacks you do want to use light
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attacks a lot though because it's your
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main way to build up the focus meter
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down here in the bottom right which will
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transfer over to the charge dots when it
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gets full however you may have noticed
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that enemies and especially bosses will
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often retaliate in the middle of your
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light attack combo typically they do
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this around the third or fourth move so
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you want to try to avoid button mashing
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the light attack and instead do three or
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four very intentional presses unless you
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know for sure you're going to be able to
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land that final fifth move doing three
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or four will give you the best balance
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of getting a bit of damage in building
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up Focus to gain charges and avoiding
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getting hit now of course you want those
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charges to fuel stronger heavy attacks
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you should really think of the heavy
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attack as your focus attack button not a
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regular heavy attack it's really not
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very effective to tap it when you don't
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have any Focus charges now you can hold
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it to charge up Focus anytime you want
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but then you have to unleash the attack
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immediately and if you Dodge or get hit
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you'll lose all the charges including
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any that you built up from Landing hits
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so it's generally better to gain Focus
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from dealing damage because it's sticky
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as opposed to the hold the charge Focus
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that has to be used right away but you
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still need to be careful when you hit
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that heavy attack button because enemies
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will often run away and you'll miss
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which wastes all the focus you built up
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it's also important to realize that your
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Dodges operate in a chain of three with
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a short delay after the third so you
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want to think about dodging in sets of
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three however if you're stamina is
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depleted you'll only get the first Dodge
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animation in that three Dodge combo
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which covers the least amount of ground
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so another reason to keep an eye on that
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stamina of course you also have perfect
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Dodges and if you can pull those off
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they won't burn any stamina plus they
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have invincibility frames so practicing
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your dodging is definitely worth your
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time there's a bunch more combat tricks
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and a lot more depth to the whole combat
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system and we'll get into all that in a
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dedicated video which I'll link right
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here as soon as it's ready make sure
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you're subscribed so you don't miss
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that's it thanks for watching and I'll
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see you in the next one
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