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Although you’ve already got more than enough combat variation at your fingertips in Silent Hope, a delightful isometric hack and slash, your heroes have access to nine additional skills, too. These are their hero skills, and each one can unlock progressively stronger skills that aid them in battle.
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PostsWhether you’re looking for additional damage-dealing moves to enhance your offense, stat boosts that increase defense, or something in between, there’s a hero skill that can help. Each hero’s skills seek to improve on their already unique method of combat, offering access to stronger attacks, stat boosts, and more in Silent Hope.
This guide is a work in progress! As we continue our coverage of the game, we'll be back to update this guide with even more helpful information about hero skills in Silent Hope.
Hero Skills Are Advanced Attacks
Though you'll already be familiar with your seven heroes and their unique fighting styles as you begin getting into Silent Hope, as you begin to level up your heroes, they'll be rewarded with one skill point per level they grow.
As soon as your first hero levels up a bit, you're introduced to hero skills, additional skills unique to each fighter that hit harder, dampen damage taken, and offer special boosts.
In Silent Hope, each hero has access to three skills at any time, and the combination of them (once all skills are unlocked) is truly up to you! Hero Skills allow you to create unique builds of your heroes and shape their abilities in a way that works for your playstyle, prompting unique playthroughs and encouraging exploration.
Hero Skills in SIlent Hope are divided into three types of moves, and each one is color-coded.
- Offensive or melee skills are denoted in a red outline on the skill select screen. These often require more contact and deal direct damage to enemies, and require close quarters to use.
- Defensive or ranged skills are given blue outlines when selecting them. These keep your hero at a distance, and may either be a defensive move, it may move enemies away from them, or it may simply just note that you don't need to be up close and personal to use this skill.
- Stat boost skills are probably the least common and have green outlines in the menu. These don't damage the enemies around you, but offer extra perks to your hero like additional defense or dodging.
When first unlocking a Hero Skill in Silent Hope, you'll need to pay one skill point to unlock the skill. After this, you can increase the skill all the way to Level Five by investing more skill points.
The first upgrade is one skill point, the second costs two, and so on until reaching the final level.
When rebuilding a hero after gaining access to new Hero Skills, it may be wise to reset your hero before reallocating their skill points, so as not to spend skill points on skills you're not actively using.
Unlock New Classes To Access Additional Skills
Just like their regular classes, no two heroes have any of the same skills, since these Hero Skills are focused entirely on your hero's individual fighting style.
And while you'll never find a skill totally outside that hero's wheelhouse, with each one sticking to their primary forms of combat and weaponry, every hero has nine possible skills that they can learn throughout the course of Silent Hope.
Only three skills are available at the beginning of Silent Hope. However, on the skill screen, you can see all of each hero's skills, even before you can unlock them.
These other skills are available after unlocking the class listed below that trio of skills. You unlock a new class at Level 15 for each hero, and the final class is unlocked after completing the story.
After gaining access to a new class, you're able to access that class' skills regardless of which class you're currently playing as the character. For example, your Farmer can still use her Farmer skills even if you're currently playing her as a Rancher.
Higher classes have more powerful skills, so unlock different things and experiment with different combinations of moves for each character to find the Hero Skills that fit best to your play style.
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