Best Skills to Get Guide or Like A Dragon: Ishin
This page contains a guide on the best abilities to get for Like A Dragon: Ishin! (LAD Ishin/Yakuza: Ishin), including recommended Combat Style abilities to unlock on the ability panels, the cost of learning each ability, details on why to get each, and other useful tips.
Like A Dragon: Ishin Best Combat Styles
Recommended Skills to Get Early
| Skill Name | Type | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Greater Finishing Blow | Sword | – |
| Ability Description | Perform an additional jumping slash after the four-strike combo Finishing Blow. Can be difficult to land, but powerful | |
| Serene Heart | Sword | – |
| Ability Description | Regain your guard after it’s broken. Enemies attacking in quick succession can overwhelm you, so guarding is vital. | |
| Komaki Dharma Tumbler | Brawler | – |
| Ability Description | Avoid attacks that may be difficult to dodge by rolling away after evading. | |
Since you will only have access to the single sword during the early stages of the game, “Greater Finishing Blow” should be the first ability you unlock. This allows you to extend combos for more damage against regular enemies and bosses.
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Afterwards, work on getting “Serene Heart” and “Komaki Dharma Tumbler” as these are both useful to improve survivability no matter what weapon you have equipped.
Recommended Skills to Get During the Middle and Late Stages (from Chapter 3 onwards)
| Skill Name | Type | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Health Increase 1 | Brawler | – |
| Ability Description | Extends your Health Gauge beyond what a level-up would give you. | |
| Greater Rate of Fire | Gunman | – |
| Ability Description | Increases your rate of fire with guns during Rush Combo and special abilities. | |
| Heat Increase | All Combat Styles | |
| Ability Description | Raises the maximum rank of your Heat Gauge. Use more Heat Actions and special abilities- crucial upgrade! | |
| Attack Speed Boost | Sword | – |
| Ability Description | Increases the speed of Rush Combo attacks in Swordsman style, giving your enemies fewer chances to strike back. | |
| Gunman Rank 9 | Gunman | – |
| Ability Description | Strengthens the power of basic attacks, Finishing Blows, and Heat Actions in Gunman Style | |
| Splendid Skill: Fair Weather | Sword | – |
| Ability Description | Push away enemies from your guard. Enemies who’ve been deflected will stumble, enabling counterattack. | |
| Swordsman Rank 9 | Sword | – |
| Ability Description | Strengthens the power of basic attacks, Finishing Blows, and Heat Actions in Swordsman Style | |
“Health Increase 1” which upgrades your health bar is an obvious choice throughout the game as it allows you to soak up more damage before you need to heal up.
Unlocking “Greater Rate of Fire” should be your next target as this will allow you to burst down most enemies from a safe distance using the pistol. This ability will become even more reliable for clearing encounters easily once you obtain the extremely powerful Golden Gun from the Gambling Hall. Later, you should focus on improving the damage dealt per shot by getting the “Gunman Rank 9 ability”.
It is also recommended to unlock “Heat Increase” as soon as possible. Doing so will upgrade your Heat Gauge’s maximum capacity to use Heat Actions and Special Moves more often which are especially useful against bosses and enemies with high HP and defense.
Skills such as “Splendid Skill: Fair Weather”, “Attack Speed Boost”, and “Swordsman Rank 9” are mostly unlocked for dealing with bosses. Most story encounters against bosses can be won by frequently stunning them using a counter (Splendid Skill: Fair Weather) before unloading with a barrage of sword strikes before they recover.
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