Black Myth: Wukong – All Martial Arts Talents List Guide

Discover everything you need to know in our All Martial Arts Talents List Guide for Black Myth: Wukong!

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In Black Myth: Wukong, your character progresses by unlocking Foundation talents in three different skill trees: Stamina, Martial Arts, and Survival. These Foundation talents primarily dictate your combat efficiency. Therefore, you will want to give priority to unlocking them with Spark Points especially early in the game.

Furthermore, you will need to defeat enemies to make progress towards Spark Points. First, 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 Martial Arts Talents – Black Myth: Wukong

Martial Arts Talent Tree - Black Myth Wukong

In Black Myth: Wukong the Martial Arts tree includes a total of 11 different skills that can improve and upgrade attacks, or morph them into something new. The Staff Spin is an active ability that will protect you from projectiles, for example. Furthermore, even the basic Light Attack can be improved upon. None of these abilities will increase resource pools like Stamina and Survival, but they will make combat more versatile and your character more powerful.

Below are all the Martial Arts Skills and Talents:

Swift Engage

Talent Name: Swift Engage
Foundation Skill Line: Martial Arts
Description: Each talent level significantly increases the engage distance of the Light Attack Starter.
Type: Passive
Sparks Cost: 1

Unlocking the Swift Engage talent will turn your first light attack against an opponent into a small gap closer. Thus, allowing you to dash to your enemy for a starting hit. This gap won’t be very big when you start, but there are two levels to unlock and the effects will stack.

Mobile Spin

Talent Name: Mobile Spin
Foundation Skill Line: Martial Arts
Description: Moving forward while using Staff Spin initiates Mobile Spin. The Destined One spins his staff around his body, deflecting projectiles.
Type: Passive
Sparks Cost: 1

The Mobile Spin talent is a fantastic upgrade to the basic staff spin ability that will allow you to spin the staff while moving. Moreover, this move will now be able to deflect incoming projectiles such as arrows. This talent is a great way to improve your defense and increase your mobility at the same time.

Effortless Finisher

Talent Name: Effortless Finisher
Foundation Skill Line: Martial Arts
Description: Grants more Focus when the second move of Light Attack Combo hits an enemy.
Type: Passive
Sparks Cost: 1

Unlocking Effortless Finisher will grant you more Focus whenever you successfully connect a second swing with your staff during a Light Attack Combo. The challenge of a Light Attack Combo is to continuously strike the enemy with successive hits without missing. However, triggering the passive effect of the Effortless Finisher shouldn’t be hard, because it only requires a second hit.

Intrepid Lunge

Talent Name: Intrepid Lunge
Foundation Skill Line: Martial Arts
Description: Initiate Heavy Attack during Mobile Spin to quickly engage and stagger the enemy.
Type: Passive
Sparks Cost:

Next in the Black Myth: Wukong – Complete Guide List Martial Arts Skills and Talents article is Intrepid Lunge, which allows you to start a heavy attack while in the middle of a Mobile Spin. Combining these two moves will allow you to approach an enemy while under fire, and then immediately hit them with a powerful blow without sacrificing your defense or health.

Soaring Strike

Talent Name: Soaring Strike
Foundation Skill Line: Martial Arts
Description: After Sprinting, Light Attack Starter temporarily deals more Damage.
Type: Passive
Sparks Cost: 1

The Soaring Strike talent is a simple way to generate a damage boost by simply running up to your opponent. This isn’t a strategy you will want to use against all enemies, but it can definitely be viable and only costs a single Spark Point to unlock.

Silver Lining

Talent Name: Silver Lining
Foundation Skill Line: Martial Arts
Description: Increases the Focus gained from blocking projectiles with Staff Spin.
Type: Passive
Sparks Cost:

Silver Lining can increase your Focus generation by prompting the gauge to build whenever you block projectiles during a staff spin. This is another situational perk and during the early game when Spark Points are in short supply, it’s not something you will want to prioritize. Later on, however, it can be a nice passive boost, especially if you use the Staff Spin ability a lot.

Punishing Downpour

Talent Name: Punishing Downpour
Foundation Skill Line: Martial Arts
Description: After six successful hits with the first four moves of Light Attack Combo, Light Attack Finisher deals extra area damage.
Type: Passive
Sparks Cost: 2

The Punishing Downpour talent has somewhat complicated requirements in order to trigger the effects of the extra area-of-effect damage from your Light Attack Finisher. It requires six successful hits with the first four moves of Light Attack Combo, which will depend on player skill to perform consistently. However, if this is something you’ve mastered, consider equipping the Kang-Jin Staff, which will turn the AOE into Thunder Damage.

Sturdy

Talent Name: Sturdy
Foundation Skill Line: Martial Arts
Description: Grants significant Damage Reduction during Light Attack Finisher.
Type: Passive
Sparks Cost: 1

The wording on the tooltip might be confusing but the ‘damage reduction during light attack finisher’ refers to the incoming damage you may be receiving. Not the damage you are dealing out. In Black Myth: Wukong, a lot of times you will be attacking while under pressure. You may have to choose to take damage to complete a combo and get the higher damage. The Sturdy talent will help make that less punishing.

Graceful Whirl

Talent Name: Graceful Whirl
Foundation Skill Line: Martial Arts
Description: Significantly reduces the Stamina cost of Staff Spin.
Type: Passive
Sparks Cost: 1

Every physical movement in Black Myth: Wukong will cost some of your stamina resources, even basic light attacks. The Staff Spin is no different. Therefore, if you like using the Staff Spin and appreciate the additional protection it provides then you should invest in the Graceful Whirl so that you can use the ability more often. Moreover, it only costs a single Spark Point, which is a decent investment for the return.

Hidden Strength

Talent Name: Hidden Strength
Foundation Skill Line: Martial Arts
Description: When Stamina is depleted, a weaker Light Attack Finisher can still be performed.
Type: Passive
Sparks Cost: 2

Normally in Black Myth: Wukong, if you run out of stamina, then you can no longer perform any physical attacks. However, the Hidden Strength talent will allow you to bypass this somewhat so that you can finish your light attack combo even when your stamina is gone.

Focused Spinning

Talent Name: Focused Spinning
Foundation Skill Line: Martial Arts
Description: Massively increases the Focus gained from successful hits with Mobile Spin.
Type: Passive
Sparks Cost: 1

The final talent in the Black Myth: Wukong – Complete Guide List Martial Arts Skills and Talents article is Focused Spinning, which will greatly increase the amount of Focus you can gain on successful this with your Mobile Spin. Focus is a vital resource in the game, which will build up into points you can spend to strike powerful Heavy Attack blows.

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