Assassin's Creed Valhalla - How to get Advanced Assassination

How to unlock Advanced Assassination in Assassin's Creed Valhalla

You can assassinate powerful enemies with the Advanced Assassination skill, which allows you to kill a high-level enemy in one hit with a timing-based attack. You can get it by unlocking the following skills in order of the center of the skill tree: Stealthy>Raven path>Melee>Stealthy>Routing>Melee>Health>Advanced assassination. It takes eight skill points to unlock this ability if you follow the specified route.

You can get skill points quite easily in Assassin's Creed Valhalla, so you can get your hands on this skill very early in the game if you favor it over ranged and melee abilities. You won't get the hidden blade until a few missions, anyway, so you have time to complete side quests and optional raids to rack up your skill point savings. Once Sigurd returns from his adventures abroad with his new Assassin friends in tow, they will give you a hidden blade and teach you the means of assassination. This happens about an hour or two after starting the game, so you can start killing enemies stealthily very early on.

If you'd rather not worry about this skill, you can enable Guaranteed Assassinations in the settings menu if you prefer a more traditional Assassin's Creed experience. It's not the experience we wanted, but Ubisoft heard complaints from fans about the assassination system in Origins and Odyssey and wanted to offer this option to die-hard fans of the franchise.

Assassin's Creed Valhalla is now available for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X | S, Google Stadia, and Amazon Luna.