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Level Up Fast in Assassin’s Creed Shadows: Top Pro Tips for New Players

2025-03-31 · 8 min

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  1. Hello, welcome back to a new Assassin's

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  2. Creed Shadows video. Today we're going to

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  3. be talking about how to level up really

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  4. quickly to get to endgame and get past the

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  5. beginning stage of the game as quickly as

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  6. possible without wasting too many times

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  7. doing side quests. Now side quests are a

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  8. great way to get XP and maybe a bit less

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  9. monotonous than just grinding, but if you

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  10. don't really care about stuff like side

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  11. quests and just wanted to focus on the

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  12. fighting and the combat and leveling up,

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  13. then You want to go to a place where

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  14. there's lots of enemies, and there's

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  15. usually lots of enemies in a place like a

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  16. castle. Osaka Castle is a pretty good

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  17. castle, especially the military district

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  18. has many enemies to fight, and you can

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  19. level up really quickly just by running

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  20. around this area and killing loads of

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  21. enemies. And enemies aren't too hard to

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  22. kill here, they're pretty easy. So you got

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  23. an enemy there, you can just assassinate

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  24. him, get 5 XP. It's pretty good. And then

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  25. you can get some loot. And what do we get?

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  26. We've got some iron sand and a mikan,

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  27. which is orange in Japanese. Get some

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  28. rations. So as you know, you can also

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  29. build a stronghold hideout in this game,

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  30. and you're gonna be needing resources to

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  31. build those. And you get those mainly from

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  32. killing stuff and looting stuff like this.

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  33. Oh, you got a comfort tree flora for my

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  34. stronghold hideout. And then you do all

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  35. this stuff here, and then you just go

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  36. around the castle. And that's probably the

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  37. best way to level up in Assassin's Creed

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  38. Shadows. So then you run around here and

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  39. then you just kill the enemies. Look how

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  40. steep these stairs are. It's more like a

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  41. ladder than a staircase. And then you go

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  42. around here and then you can sneak around.

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  43. There's usually loads of enemies, uh,

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  44. apart from today, I guess it's their day

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  45. off or something. And then you go around,

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  46. there's some over there, so we can do like

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  47. a stealth, stealth attack.

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  48. So when you're doing stealth attack, you

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  49. want to aim for the most dangerous enemy,

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  50. probably that samurai-looking guy here.

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  51. How do they not see me? And then you can

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  52. take out these unarmored guys

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  53. effortlessly,

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  54. like so.

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  55. Okay, kill this guy.

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  56. Oh, look at that, 5 XP already, easy.

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  57. So you just want to do that and grind and

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  58. grind and grind until you level up so you

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  59. get more of the abilities, because the

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  60. game's pretty good, but in the beginning

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  61. you don't really get many of the

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  62. abilities. So you gotta level up to get

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  63. the abilities. Oh,

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  64. there's loads over there. So what you

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  65. want to do is sneak up on them. And that's

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  66. level 7 guy, and that's level 5 guy.

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  67. Well, there's quite a lot over there

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  68. actually, so we're gonna sneak around.

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  69. We want to kill as many as we can.

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  70. I assassinated the wrong guy.

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  71. Now it's 5 versus 1.

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  72. Just don't let them surround you.

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  73. That's one down.

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  74. You get so much XP doing this,

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  75. it's actually insane.

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  76. So that guy, what's he doing?

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  77. I think they're ranged than me. Oh, he's

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  78. got a gun. It's not very Japanese-y.

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  79. Oh, he just rolled out of his musket.

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  80. Easy, easy. Look at all the loot.

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  81. Oh, we got some mons, heavy brush, hay

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  82. brush. A fan.

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  83. And that's probably like 40 XP right

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  84. there. There's an enemy down there. He

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  85. looks— oh, that's a Daisho. It's a samurai

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  86. Daisho. So you want to sneak up on him.

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  87. He's got a funny helmet. Oh fuck, he saw

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  88. me. How did he see me?

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  89. Oh, he's got— oh my God, he's got a

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  90. big pole and he keeps attacking.

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  91. God, he hit the wall, did he?

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  92. Ow, I'm out of health.

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  93. Oh my God, I got one more health.

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  94. Damn.

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  95. Oh my God, I got no kunais.

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  96. Oh, and that's how you get killed by a

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  97. Samurai Daiso. Okay, trying again. Um,

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  98. you want to level up quickly as possible.

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  99. I'm going to try the Samurai Daisho again.

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  100. This time try and get an assassination. I

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  101. don't think you can assassinate them,

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  102. that'll be too easy.

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  103. Oh, you can take some of the health off.

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  104. Yowch,

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  105. he keeps attacking.

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  106. That is how you do it, easy.

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  107. What do I get? Oh. Oh, I got a Diligent

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  108. Katana and a mastery point. So we go

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  109. to the mastery section.

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  110. What can I get? I can get 2% increased

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  111. damage. Wow. Or I

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  112. get breathing.

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  113. What's that one? Shoji-do assassination.

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  114. I might get the damage.

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  115. Yeah, I might get that. Might as well, I

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  116. mean, what else are you gonna get? Okay,

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  117. now it's raining.

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  118. I think there should be 2 more samurai

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  119. daishos and then you can get the loot at

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  120. Got enemies.

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  121. You just

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  122. one-shot everyone. The assassinate skill

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  123. is pretty overpowered.

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  124. Got a ration.

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  125. Wait, did she stab him in the nuts?

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  126. It's not cool, man.

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  127. Oh, is that another Daisho?

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  128. Why is

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  129. he taking his bow out?

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  130. Easy kill. For some reason he took his bow

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  131. out.

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