Best Skills to unlock early in God of War Ragnarok
This guide shares the best Skills for Leviathan Axe and Blades of Chaos to unlock in the early game in God of War Ragnarok to make you overpowered early.
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There are a number of powerful abilities and skills to make use of in God of War Ragnarok, but if you want to optimise the strongest Kratos possible, there are some you'll need more than others. Here is a selection of the best skills to unlock early in your playthrough.
Best Skills to unlock early
There are a few factors that we have kept in mind while selecting the best skills for both Leviathan Axe and Blades of Chaos that you can unlock in the early game of God of War Ragnarok, most with Weapon Upgrade 1 or 2. These factors are increasing sub-stats while getting an attack or skill, long-range attacks, short-range AoE, increasing Elemental attack damage, and some heavy hitters.
Leviathan Axe
Here are the different Leviathan Axe skills you must focus on unlocking during the early game:
Permafrost
We recommend the Permafrost skill, especially to players who forget chaining attack combos in battle and start mashing the default attack button.
With Permafrost unlocked, you can perform Melee attacks quickly without sustaining damage to the power of Leviathan Axe and inflict Frost damage with every hit. Moreover, it also gives a bonus stat boost to Luck and Runic when it's active.
Vengeful Sickle I
The Vengeful Sickle is a long-range skill where you can throw the Leviathan Axe at an enemy, causing it to Spin and Slice for multiple hits.
When combined with Blades of Chaos's Vaporize Frost and Rushing Chaos, you can melt through enemies' HP in no time.
Freezing Throw II
Freezing Throw II expands the original Freezing Throw attack by adding an AoE Frost blast that you can chain with Chaos Blade attacks with Vaporize Frost unlocked to deal more damage to enemies.
Extinguish Flame
Extinguish Flame skill gives you bonus damage when you use the Leviathan Axe's attacks against enemies affected by the Burning effect of the Chaos Blade.
Glacial Rake
One of my favourite and most effective skills to use in God of War Ragnarok, Glacial Rake, attack rips out ice shards from the ground that travel forward and strike opponents repeatedly with high Frost.
Serpent's Snare
A high damage skill that allows you to apply a Frost effect on a group of enemies quickly. When you use the Serpent's Snare skill on a weak enemy, you deal massive damage while throwing the enemy in the direction of your liking, which on impact creates an AoE Frost explosion that launches other nearby enemies.
Blades Of Chaos
Here are the different Chaos Blade skills you must focus on unlocking during the early game:
Vaporize Frost
Like the Extinguish Flame skill for Levithan Axe, you can unlock Vaporize Frost to deal more damage to enemies affected by the Frost effect.
Immolation
The Immolation skill will allow performing melee attacks in quick succession without sustaining damage to the Blades of Chaos's power-up and inflicting Burn damage on hit. It also boosts Luck and Runic attacks when it's active.
Blazing Explosion I
Blazing Explosion I is an excellent long-range skill to deal significant damage and apply the Burn status effect to a group of enemies. It's an upgraded version of Blazing Surge that you can perform by aiming the Chaos Blade and then holding the R2 button to throw both Blades and a fiery pulse of energy, causing a damaging explosion and dealing massive Burn.
Since the skill has a decent build-up time, we recommend you unlock its Skill Mod and use the Protection Mod token to make sure you don't take much damage from enemies while performing the attack.
Rising Chaos
Rising Chaos is a single target focus attack that allows you to leap towards an enemy and deal with successive rapid spinning attacks that hit multiple times.
Hyperion Grapple I
The Hyperion Grapple I is a great skill that will allow you to quickly move around the battlefield toward enemies or deal with pesky airborne enemies that are pretty infuriating.
During the Hyperion Pull, you can hold the R1 key to perform the Hyperion Grapple I to launch toward the grounded enemies and stun them on impact or slam airborne enemies to the ground.
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