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Top 5 Weapons in Assassin’s Creed Shadows for New Players: INSANE Damage!

2025-03-31 · 8 min

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  1. Hello, welcome back to a new video.

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  2. Assassin's Creed Shadows, and we just

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  3. killed all of the 3 Samurai Daishos, and

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  4. I'm going to show you how to get some of

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  5. the best weapons. As a beginning player in

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  6. the game, you want to get some of the best

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  7. weapons to help you fight the rest of the

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  8. enemies, and one of the best ways to get

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  9. the best weapons in the game in the

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  10. beginning of the game is to go to the

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  11. castles, Osaka Castle in particular. You

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  12. gotta kill the 3 Samurai Daishos and then

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  13. you get access to the loot at the top of

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  14. the roof. And we'll go and go there now

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  15. and I'll show you how much good stuff you

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  16. get by killing the 3 Samurai Daishos.

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  17. Okay, so here we are. I'm just gonna open

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  18. the door, or maybe not, go around the

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  19. side. Okay, so here we have the loot box.

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  20. After killing the 3 Samurai Daisho, you

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  21. get access to the loot box. And you get no

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  22. weapons, but you get peasant clothes,

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  23. legendary light armor. So we're gonna look

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  24. at some of the best weapons in the

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  25. beginning of the game. So first of all,

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  26. we've got 8 weapons. We've got the Bloody

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  27. Katana of the Brute, we've got the Ronin's

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  28. Katana of Truth, we've got the Diligent

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  29. Katana of Malice, we've got the Fortified

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  30. Katana of Honor, we've got the Serene

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  31. Katana of Security, we've got the Serene

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  32. Katana of Wounding, We've got the Strong

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  33. Katana of Truth, and we've got Matsu's

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  34. Katana. So basically, if it says Brute,

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  35. it means it's going to do a lot of weapon

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  36. DPS. If it says Truth, it's going to do a

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  37. lot of— it's

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  38. going to do a lot of daze buildup or

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  39. adrenaline gain. If it says Malice, we're

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  40. going to do posture DPS. And Matsu's

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  41. Katana does adrenaline gain, but if you

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  42. want maximum damage, you want the Katana

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  43. of Wounding. And that does more weapon DPS

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  44. than the Brute one, but it does have less

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  45. ability damage. So it depends on your

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  46. playstyle, you go for ability damage or

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  47. katana damage. Okay, so you also got

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  48. Serene Katana of Security, does way more

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  49. ability damage versus the 278 ability

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  50. damage versus 188 ability damage.

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  51. So I mean, if you want katana ability

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  52. damage, then you're gonna go for The

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  53. Katana of Truth.

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  54. Um, yeah, it's got 294 ability damage,

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  55. but you don't really have that many

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  56. abilities in the beginning of the game,

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  57. so I would recommend going for weapon DPS.

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  58. So 63 weapon DPS with this one, it looks

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  59. pretty cool like that. And then we also

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  60. have the legendary light armor,

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  61. the Peasant Clothes legendary light armor.

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  62. Looks pretty Trendy. It's pretty cool.

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  63. So attacks have 3% chance to remove 1

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  64. health segment on hit. That's pretty good.

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  65. Upgrade Hyatt's Forge to engrave a perk.

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  66. So you want to get the Forge at the

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  67. Hideout, so that's gonna upgrade perks.

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  68. And we also got this one, more damage with

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  69. tools. This one does more crit damage,

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  70. but this one has more health. So we're

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  71. gonna go for the legendary light armor.

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  72. Um, yeah, so basically you want to do

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  73. these castles and get the loot boxes and

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  74. upgrade the forge. Oh, I leveled up!

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  75. What'd I get? I got

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  76. nothing that I can unlock at the moment,

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  77. so I need knowledge rank

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  78. 2. I don't know how to get that.

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  79. But we go for tool, we can get Quick

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  80. Throw. Hold LT and press RB to

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  81. automatically throw equipped tools at

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  82. closest enemy. Okay, could get that.

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  83. I could get that.

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  84. Okay, so you want to go get more damage,

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  85. damaging weapons. So we can now go

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  86. up here. Oh, we got a mastery point.

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  87. Um, sure, yeah, we'll go back to the

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  88. hideout, which is fast

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  89. travel unavailable.

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  90. Why? It's probably because I just landed.

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  91. It's kind of annoying like that.

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  92. Fast travel unavailable. I don't

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  93. understand why.

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  94. Well, I guess we're just gonna have to run

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  95. that 1,500

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  96. meters.

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  97. Oh, there's lots of loot in there.

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  98. I don't know how to get inside.

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  99. Oh, is that a door? Door barred.

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  100. Can't be bothered. Oh, there's an enemy.

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  101. Easy. Oh, maybe we need that because I

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  102. want to see if I can get the forge. I

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  103. don't know if I have enough materials.

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  104. Getting out of the castle is so annoying

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  105. because you can't just run up the wall.

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  106. It's probably the whole point of the moat,

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  107. to make it annoying to get in and out.

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  108. Oh, look at these enemies,

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  109. just rolling around.

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  110. Wow, this seems to do more damage. I'm

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  111. killing them way faster now.

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  112. Yeah, it definitely seems to be doing more

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  113. damage with this new sword.

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  114. Whoa, one-shot him!

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  115. I'm gonna die. Oh my God,

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  116. I've got no

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  117. health. Oh my God,

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  118. stupid lag.

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  119. Uh, desynchronize.

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  120. So I was trying to get to the hideout.

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  121. Oh God, the quests in this game are so

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  122. annoying. It's just go here, find this

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  123. guy, talk to him, and it's

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  124. always really annoying to find them

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  125. because You gotta activate your special

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  126. vision thingy.

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  127. Why are these guys so weak?

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  128. I just want

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  129. to kill stuff. I don't wanna go here, I

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  130. don't wanna go there, I don't wanna talk

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  131. to anyone, I just wanna chop people up

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  132. with my sword, please. Game devs are like,

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  133. oh wow, the player must really wanna talk

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  134. to random NPCs. No, we don't give a fuck.

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