Techniques make the Ghost Man of Tsushima, and investing your skill points in the right ones can make your life easier when trying to defend your homeland from invaders. In this guide, we are going to go over some of the techniques that we have found to be the most useful while playing the game.
The best positions
We'll start with the easiest part to hedge, the positions. The positions are all suitable for dealing with different types of enemies, so they are all equally important. If you are fighting a certain type of enemy, invest more technique points in that position to open up new options for fighting them. We recommend all players to use the Flowing Strikes technique in the water stance, as this will allow you to quickly work on shield enemies, which is very common in the majority of fights.
The best samurai techniques
It is worth investing in the entire Samurai Deflection Tree, as it will contain important parry abilities like the Unyielding Spear and Unyielding Sword parries. This will allow you to parry previously unblockable attacks, allowing you to enjoy the Perfect Healing Parry more often. The Perfect Mending Parry will restore health each time you successfully remove it. Perfect Dodge is also an incredible ability, letting you perform a vicious counterattack while dodging at the last second.
The best ghost techniques
Standoff is an incredible technique, allowing you to instantly take out enemies from a fight. This should be improved as much as possible to maximize the number of easy kills you can pick up at the start of a fight.
Recover Health and Iron will allow you to heal or bring you back with a small amount of health if an enemy is about to kill you. The entire Focused Hearing Tree is also worth investing in, as it allows you to track enemies from much further afield.
Mythical techniques
The best mythical technique is definitely Heavenly Strike. This allows you to do an unstoppable attack that will deal bonus damage to a staggered enemy, and while that resolves the costs, it can quickly take out awkward enemies from a fight.
