Many skills in Donkey Kong Bananza can help you during the early game. Here’s a list of some skills based on combat and utility.

Donkey Kong Bananza has many skills that you can upgrade to make DK more powerful and efficient during combat and exploration. However, upgrading skills requires Skill Points, and you get those from collecting Banandium Gems. Moreover, collecting five Banandium gems nets you one Skill Point.
Skills in this game are not easy to upgrade. Some skills can take more than 100 Banandium Gems to upgrade due to the high Skill Point cost. Therefore, it is best to focus on a few select skills in the early game to have a smoother gameplay experience. To help you out, here’s a list of the best skills you should upgrade first in Donkey Kong Bananza.
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Best Skills To Upgrade First in Donkey Kong Bananza
Here are the skills you should upgrade first based on both Combat and Utility:
Best Early-Game Combat Skills

Health
This upgrade is very simple, as each level of Health increases DK’s heart by one. There are a total of seven levels to this upgrade, and maxing it out brings your max health to 10 hearts. It is best to invest at least three levels in this skill before the fourth layer, where you start losing more health than before to enemies and terrain.
Apple Juice
When you lose all your health, Donkey Kong perishes, which resets the level. However, Apple Juice packs serve as a reviver and bring your health back to full when used. The Apple Juice skill allows you to carry multiple packs, with one being added at each upgrade. It is recommended to invest at least one level of this in the early game, which allows you to carry two Apple Juice packs at once.
Bananergy
In Donkey Kong Bananza, DK can transform into different forms that each have special abilities. However, there is also an energy meter that shows how long you can stay in the Bananza form each time you transform. Bananergy skill upgrades extend the time you can stay in the special form. Moreover, the upgrades are very cheap, so invest at least three points in this skill.
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Best Early-Game Utility Skills

Better Sonar
Donkey Kong can beat on his chest and send out waves. The waves mark any type of Banandium Gems, treasure, and fossils near DK. The Better Sonar upgrades increase the range of this ability to help you find items from far away. Investing at least one point in this skill helps you locate Banandium Gems much more efficiently throughout the game.
Surf Surf
This is a single-point upgrade that allows Donkey Kong to surf over water bodies while holding a chunk. The reason for getting this upgrade is that you can slide on poison and lava, which normally consume a lot of health on contact. This upgrade makes exploration much safer and easier in certain regions.
Punch Power
Donkey Kong Bananza features a destructible environment, which DK can punch through to traverse and explore. However, the ground slowly starts to become much tougher to punch through as you progress to further regions. By upgrading the Punch Power skill by one level, Donkey Kong can easily break through the ground in the first four layers of the game.
This concludes our article on the best skills to upgrade first in Donkey Kong Bananza.

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