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Discover everything you need to know in our All Smash Stance Skills and Talents List Guide for Black Myth: Wukong!
In Black Myth: Wukong, you can progress and strengthen your character build by unlocking new stances and abilities. Moreover, you can also further refine those stances by unlocking Talents. Talents are passive boosts to the stances that you unlock with Spark Points. Smash Stance is the default stance and has balanced offensive and defensive capabilities. Moreover, Smash Stance does not require a specific talent to unlock the tree, and is your main stance at the start of the game.
You earn Spark Points in the game by defeating enemies. When you defeat an enemy you will be granted Willpower. Then, after your Willpower bar fills up, you will get a Spark Point.
Finally, you can respec your Spark Points at any time during the game. This freedom will facilitate combat strategy and allow you to modify your build to take advantage of boss weaknesses or combat style.
All Smash Stance Skills and Talents – Black Myth: Wukong
The Smash Stance is your primary stance, emphasizing charging heavy attacks and combos. The left side of the talent tree increases charging effectiveness, while the right side incentivizes you to use counteracts. Since this is the main stance and unlocked at level 1, spending a heavy investment in the skill tree is advised.
There are a total of 9 Smash Stance talents available to unlock in Black Myth: Wukong, and each will grant a different type of passive boost. There are no active skills or spells available. You simply need to activate your stance to be able to use the passive abilities gained while in that stance.
Below are all the Smash Stance Talents in Black Myth Wukong:
- Force Unbound: sprinting while charging.
- Resolute Counterflow: combing nullifies damage.
- Ironbound Resolve: damage reduction after charged heavy attack.
- Winding Wind: after a counterflow, light attack for a third move.
- Skyfall Strike: after a counteract, use a focus point for hard-hitting aerial attack.
- Smashing Force: increase damage by charged smash heavy attack.
- Invigoration: gain focus for a counterattacking and resolute strike.
- Vantage Point: deals more damage depending on the focus used with Skyfall.
- Peace from Peril: perfect dodges retain focus when charging a heavy attack.
Force Unbound
- Talent Name: Force Unbound
- Description: Enables Sprinting while charging.
- Sparks Cost: 1
- Ranks:1
The Force Unbound Talent is a simple talent that allows you to Sprint while charging your heavy attacks while in Smash Stance. This is a great mobility tool and one worth taking since you are sure to be in Smash Stance at one point or another.
Resolute Counterflow
- Talent Name: Resolute Counterflow
- Description: Performing a Heavy Attack during a Light Attack Combo with a Focus Point consumed, allows the Destined One to execute Resolute Strike. During Resolute Strike, the Destined One can see through the incoming enemy attacks and nullify their damage. Enemies that have been seen through are easier to stagger.
- Sparks Cost: 1
- Ranks: 1
Stance Talents are all about improving the combos while in that specific stance. The Resolute Counterflow Talent grants the Resolute Strike attack that allows the Destined One to see through enemies, which lets you nullify damage and more easily stagger that enemy. Seeing through enemies is an effect that can be built off of for several different builds, and a Resolute Strike is fairly easy way to activate it.
Ironbound Resolve
- Talent Name: Ironbound Resolve
- Description: Each talent level considerably increases Damage Reduction upon a charged Heavy attack.
- Sparks Cost: 1
- Ranks: 2
The Ironbound Resolve Talent is a straightforward passive bonus granted for dealing damage with a charged Heavy Attack. It grants the Destined One Damage Reduction which could mean the difference between life in death in a close battle. Overall, this is a great Talent worth taking early on, especially if you are investing in the Smash Stance.
Winding Wind
- Talent Name: Winding Wind
- Description: Performing Light Attack upon seeing through the enemy initiates a Light Attack Combo from the third move.
- Sparks Cost: 1
- Ranks: 1
Upon completing a Resolute Counterflow, you can see through enemies and they glow red. This talent allows you to use a light attack for a third attack. Winding Wind is essential to combo when countering enemies and should be taken to advance in the skill tree.
Skyfall Strike
- Talent Name: Skyfall Strike
- Description: After a successful hit with Resolute Strike, performing another Heavy Attack consuming a Focus Point executes Skyfall Strike. The Destined One leverages his forward momentum, launching himself into the air with his staff to somersault forward, then unleashes a firm downward strike upon his enemy’s head.
- Sparks Cost: 1
- Ranks: 1
Resolute Strike is a decent option on its own, but the Skyfall Strike Talent allows you to build off of that combo. After you successfully hit with the Resolute Strike just do a Heavy Attack, provided you have a Focus Point to spend, to do a Skyfall Strike. Skyfall Strike is a powerful attack launched from above that hits the enemy’s head.
Smashing Force
- Talent Name: Smashing Force
- Description: Each talent level slightly increases the Damage dealt by charged Smash Heavy Attacks.
- Sparks Cost: 1
- Ranks: 2
This is a very straightforward Talent that doesn’t require a lot of explanation. Simply taking the Smashing Force Talent increases the damage dealt by charged Heavy Attacks while in Smash stance. As such,this is Talent worth taking both ranks in as soon as you can.
Invigoration
- Talent Name: Invigoration
- Description: Grants massive Focus upon seeing through and hitting the enemy with Resolute Strike.
- Sparks Cost: 1
- Ranks: 1
As with the previous, the Invigoration Talent is another straightforward and powerful talent worth taking as soon as you can if you have invested in the Smash Tree even a little bit. By performing a Resolute Strike you grant the Destined One massive Focus, which is extremely powerful. Focus is used all of the most powerful abilities in Black Myth: Wukong, so getting additional ways to generate it is very important.
Vantage Point
- Talent Name: Vantage Point
- Description: After seeing through the enemy, Skyfall Strike deals more Damage based on the number of Focus Points built.
- Sparks Cost: 2
- Ranks: 1
As a final link in the Talent tree, the Vantage Point talent builds off all of its previous entries making them all work together better and overall just become more powerful. Vantage Point makes Skyfall Strike deal more damage based off of how many Focus Points you have. As you are constantly building up focus, this can make your Skyfall Strike do a lot of damage.
Peace from Peril
- Talent Name: Peace from Peril
- Description: When charging, Perfect Dodges retain any Focus that has been built up.
- Sparks Cost: 2
- Ranks: 1
The Peace from Peril talent is essential to maintaining your focus points while doing. This incentives you to charge prior to engaging in combat even if you dodge. However, it must be a perfect dodge to retain your focus points, so make sure to practice the timing to avoid losing any focus.
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