Best Kusarigama Build Guide in Assassin’s Creed Shadows

This Assassin’s Creed Shadows guide focuses on making the best Kusarigama build for Naoe.

Kusarigama is a very versatile weapon that draws out the full potential of an assassin. In Assassin’s Creed Shadows, Naoe uses a variety of weapons that suit her playstyle and personality. As a shinobi, she uses Kusarigama to deal with a bunch of enemies at the same time. The damage output might not be the greatest, but it does help in containing multiple enemies at once. If you want to master this weapon, read this guide.

In this Assassin’s Creed Shadows guide, we will help you make the best Kusarigama guide for Naoe.

Assassin’s Creed Shadows Kusarigama Build Overview

Mainly Assassin’s Creed focuses on killing enemies in shadows. However, life is not easy each day, and you might have to fight multiple enemies at once. Yasuke is built like a tank and excels in fighting enemies head-on. On the other hand, Naoe can sometimes struggle with hordes of enemies, but Kusarigama can help in these situations. This weapon can also help in close-quarters combat. Here are some pros and cons related to Kusarigama:

Pros	Cons
Good against multiple enemies.	Deals less damage than other weapons.
Great help in close-quarter combat.	Only good at close to medium range.

Related: Best Tanto Build Guide in Assassin’s Creed Shadows.

Best Kusarigama Build in Assassin’s Creed Shadows

• Weapon: Featherstorm
  • Rarity: Legendary
  • Default Engrave: Instantly charge posture attacks when hitting multiple enemies.
  • Secondary Engrave: +72% armor damage when hitting multiple opponents.
• Headgear: Peasant Hat
  • Rarity: Legendary
  • Default Engrave: +100% of an adrenaline chunk upon entering combat.
  • Secondary Engrave: Ground attacks now remove 2 health segments on hit.
• Armor: Legendary Onna-musha Kosode
  • Rarity: Legendary
  • Default Engrave: Knock down enemies by sliding into them.
  • Secondary Engrave: Attacks have a 3% chance to remove 1 health segment on hit.
• Trinkets: Fluttering Moth
  • Rarity: Legendary
  • Default Engrave: +15% to stats with only a Kusarigama equipped.
  • Secondary Engrave: +10% to stats on equipped Katana/Tanto/Kusarigama.
• Tools:
  • Kunai
  • Shuriken
  • Smoke Bomb

This build is designed to produce maximum Kusarigama value. However, you can also use other weapons like Tanto to get good value out of this build.

Skill Tree for Best Kusarigama Build in Assassin’s Creed Shadows

Kusarigama

Skill	Knowledge Rank
Entanglement	1
Feral Outburst	1
Big Catch	2
Exposed Wound	2
Multi-Target Expert	3
Cyclone Blast	3
Hard Fall	3
Lasting Storm	4
Feral Frenzy	4
Critical Proficiency	6
Enhanced Impact	6

Shinobi

Skill	Knowledge Rank
Prodigy	1
Grappling Hook	1
Shallow Water Breathing	1
Ascension Boost	2
Vault	2
Igan Roll	2
Evasive	3
Lightning Kicks	3
Destabilizing Vault	3
Immobilized	4
Ninja Fall	4
Efficient	5
High Vault	5
Sweep The Leg	6

Assassin

Skill	Knowledge Rank
Executor	1
Ground Assassinate	1
Shoji Door Assassination	1
Hidden Blade	1
Eagle Vision	1
Night Crawler	2
Improved Ground Assassinate	2
Double Assassinate	2
Assassination Damage 1	2
Vigor 1	3
Reinforced Blade	3
Improved Sense	3
Frontrunner	4
Vigor 2	4
Assassination Damage 2	4
Hand of The Creed	5
Vigor 3	6
Assassination Damage 3	6

Also read: Best Longbow Build Guide in Assassin’s Creed Shadows.

Assassin’s Creed Shadows Best Kusarigama Build Explained

If you like getting aggressive with Naoe and want to stunt on enemies, this best Kusarigama build is going to help you a lot. This whole thing relies on knocking enemies down, inflicting great damage using various engravings and abilities. You can also use a lot of different combos with this build. This build focuses on these aspects:

• Rampage in close-quarters combat.
• Knock down enemies and break their armor.
• Create chaos among opponents.
• Focuses on clearing multiple enemies at once.

How To Use This Best Kusarigama Build in Assassin’s Creed Shadows

Kusarigama is very fun to use as a weapon in Assassin’s Creed Shadows, and on top of that, it deals enough damage. Here are some quick how-to use tips that will help you during combat:

• Try to knock enemies to get an extra damage bonus. This way you can weaken multiple enemies at once. Moreover, with the help of headgear engraving, you can remove 2 health segments on hit.

• Kusarigama has the Feral Outburst ability that is enhanced by Exposed Wound and Feral Frenzy to deal multiple instances of damage at once.

• With the help of Multi-Target Expert and weapon engraving, you can produce great damage numbers when dealing with multiple enemies.

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