5 best early-game Foundation skills you should unlock in Black Myth Wukong

Foundation skills in Black Myth Wukong help you conserve your stamina while sprinting and dodging. They also aid you in fortifying defense and offense by making you more efficient with Light Attacks. Additionally, they are important to improve attributes like Health, Mana, Stamina, and Attack Power.

Now, there are a ton of skills to unlock under the Foundation tree, so you might struggle to pick a starting point. We’ve got you covered, though, as this article lists the five best early-game Foundation Skills in Black Myth Wukong.

Note: This list is subjective and solely reflects the opinions of the writer

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What are the 5 best early-game Foundation skills in Black Myth Wukong?

1) Robust Constitution

Robust Constitution increases HP (Image via GameScience)

Enemies in Black Myth Wukong hit hard. Even the fodder enemies you run into are capable of taking you out in a few hits. Now, you don’t have a ton of HP at the start of the game, which can make survival difficult. However, you can increase your Maximum Health by pouring points into the Robust Combustion skill.

Robust Combustion can be upgraded six times, and maxing it out will make a ton of difference during the early hours of the game. Even putting a few points into the skill is beneficial, so it should be one of the first things you improve in the Foundation tree.

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2) Simian Agility

Simian Agility helps save stamina (Image via GameScience)

You will find yourself dodging just about every attack in Black Myth Wukong. However, each dodge will come at the cost of Stamina. Much like you, your enemies can also use combos in battle, so you will often have to chain multiple dodges together to efficiently get out of harm’s way.

However, this can be quite taxing on your Stamina bar. This is where Simian Agility comes in. Unlocking this skill will moderately reduce the amount of Stamina it costs to dodge.

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3) Swift Engage

Swift Engage is excellent for increasing the range of your Light Attacks (Image via GameScience)

More often than not, you will come across some very mobile enemies in Black Myth Wukong. These foes will try to distance themselves from you, which makes it difficult to keep track of them and land attacks. However, this isn’t much of an issue if you have Swift Engage unlocked. This skill increases the range of your Light Attack Starter, thus making it much easier to close in on your foes.

Moreover, there are two levels to Swift Engage, and getting both can provide a massive increase in the range of your attacks. This skill can help you take on and defeat some of the tougher enemies during the opening hours of Black Myth Wukong.

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4) Mobile Spin

Mobile Spin can be used to close in on archers (Image via GameScience)

Staff Spin is one of the many abilities you can use to tackle foes in Black Myth Wukong. While using Staff Spin, your character stands in place and spins their staff around to deflect any incoming projectiles. However, standing in place also leaves you vulnerable to enemy attacks and is also kind of inefficient.

It is recommended that you unlock the Mobile Spin skill during the early hours of the game. With Mobile Spin, you can move forward while using Staff Spin, thus allowing you to close in on ranged enemies. This makes it much easier to pick off archers, who will constantly interrupt you if left to their own devices.

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5) Effortless Finisher

Effortless Finisher is one of the best Foundation skills in Black Myth Wukong (Image via GameScience)

Most of your attacks in Black Myth Wukong will be Light Attack Combos. Since you’ll be using these moves a lot, it only makes sense that you get the most out of them. With the Effortless Finisher skill, you will gain more focus whenever you land the second move of a Light Attack Combo. Focus points can then be used to land devastating Heavy Attacks and make short work of enemies.

So, if you have the Effortless Finisher skill unlocked, you’ll be able to use Heavy Attacks more often, thus allowing you to swiftly deal with most enemy encounters in Black Myth Wukong.