Stellar Blade - Best Skills to Get

Best skills to get in Stellar Blade (Project EVE), including recommended early-game skills to unlock, best Survival skills, best Attack skills, best Beta skills, recommended order of unlocking each ability, how to respec skills, and other useful tips.

Stellar Blade - Best Skills to Get

Best Skills to Get in Stellar Blade (Project EVE)

Best Early Game Skills to Unlock First

Skill Type Skill
Survival Repulse
Skills that Increase Action Success Rates (Threat Detection, Focus Boost, etc.)
Beta Energy Recharge (Perfect Parry)
Attack Ambush
Beta Energy Recharge (Attacking

The best skills to unlock at the start of the game are the Survival skills Repulse, Beta Energy Recharge (Perfect Parry), and those that increase your chance of executing certain actions like Parrying, Blink, and Repulse. For Attack skills, get Ambush and Beta Energy Recharge (Attacking). If you are not sure which skills to spend on in the beginning, go with these.

Unlock Beta Skills afterwards.

Skill Type Skill
Beta Triplet Skills
Slash Skills

After learning the recommended early-game skills, try to upgrade at least one Beta skill. The above two types are good choices in general.

Best Survival Skills and Order of Unlocking

Order Skill Details
1 Repulse

When Eve’s sword glows purple, tilt the left analog stick + 〇

  • Essential skill for dealing with enemy purple attacks.
  • Increases the power of long-range attacks
  • Useful for targeting enemy weaknesses.
2 Threat Detection

Makes it easier to perform Blink and Repulse.

  • Increases ease of using Blink and Repulse.
  • Skills are more likely to succeed.
  • Reduced risk of failing in related actions.
3 Focus Boost

Makes it easier to perform Perfect Parry.

  • Increases ease of performing Perfect Parries.
  • Perfect Parries are more likely to succeed.
  • Reduced risk of failing in related actions.
4 Reflex Boost

Makes it easier to perform Perfect Dodge.

  • Increases ease of performing Perfect Dodges.
  • Perfect Dodges are more likely to succeed.
  • Reduced risk of failing in related actions.
5 Beta Energy Recharge (Parry)

Recharges your Beta Energy after Perfect Parries.

  • Improves Perfect Parry usefulness.
  • Increases amount of Beta Energy recovered.
  • Works well with other Beta skill-related abilities.
6 Beta Energy Recharge (Perfect Dodge)

Recharges your Beta Energy after Perfect Dodges.

  • Improves Perfect Dodge  usefulness.
  • Increases amount of Beta Energy recovered
  • Works well with other Beta skill-related abilities.
7 Double Avoidance

〇 > 〇

  • Allows you to activate evasion twice in a row.
  • Useful for keeping your distance from the enemy.
  • Unlock it if you can spare some SP.

Unlock Survival skills to improve your overall combat performance.

The Survival skills listed above are the ones that you will always benefit from in battle unless you have a very specific playstyle. Because of this, prioritize unlocking them as soon as possible.

Unlock Survival skills that improve the usefulness of dodging if you have SP to spare.

Since parrying attacks is much more rewarding in combat than evading them, try to hold off getting dodge-related skills until later if you have any SP to spare.

Best Attack Skills and Order of Unlocking

Order Skill Details
1 Ambush

When not entering combat yet, press △ behind an enemy.

  • Allows you to kill enemies in one strike when out of combat.
  • Helps you clear battles fast.
  • Useful for taking down some strong enemies.
2 Beta Energy Recharge (Attacking) Attack with ◻︎ or △ to recharge Beta Energy using attacks.

  • Increases amount of Beta Energy recovered form attacks.
  • Works well with other Beta skill-related abilities.
  • Essentially makes battles opportunities to recharge Beta Energy.
3 Aerial Blow

Press △ while in the air.

  • Ignores the enemy’s guard.
  • Useful for dealing with enemies with shields.
  • Performed in the air.
4 Beta Energy Recharge (Ambush and Assault)

Recharges your Beta Energy after Ambush and Assault.

  • Improves Ambush and Assault usefulness.
  • Increases amount of Beta Energy recovered
  • Works well with other Beta skill-related abilities.

Ambush is one of the best Attack skills while exploring areas.

Ambush allows you to instantly take down enemies from behind with a single blow as long as you are not yet engaged in comabt. This makes it useful for dealing with shielded enemies and those that are tedious to kill because of their high HP. Ambush is also useful for exploring areas and collecting items so prioritize unlocking it as you go through the game.

Aerial Blow is useful against shielded enemies.

Aerial Blow allows you to attack enemies from the air while ignoring the enemy’s guard. Unlike Ambush, Aerial Blow will not kill the target in one strike but can be used even outside of combat. This makes it a good option when Ambush fails.

Best Beta Skills and Order of Unlocking

Order Skill Details
1 Triplet Skills

L1 + ◻︎ > L1 + ◻︎

  • Boast high power without charging
  • Attack motion has few gaps.
  • Enemy posture can be reduced with additional attacks.
2 Slash Related Skill

L1 + △ (chargeable) > L1 + △

  • Wide range attack.
  • Can deal high damage when charged.
  • Can stun enemies to temporarily hinder their actions.
3 Shield Breaker Skills

L1 + × (chargeable)

  • Significantly reduces the enemy’s shield gauge
  • Deals high damage when charged.
  • Knocks down the enemy during the final hit.
4 Shockwave Skills

L1 + 〇

  • Can hit enemies from a distance
  • Attack motion has few gaps.
  • Knocks down the enemy during the final hit.

Try to limit yourself to 1 to 2 Beta skills early on.

Since Beta skills require Beta Energy to use, you will not get to use such skills too often in each battle. Because of this, try to limit the Beta skills you unlock to 1 or 2. Afterwards, focus on enhancing those that you have unlocked instead of spending SP to learn new Beta skills.

Unlock and upgrade Beta skills that you frequently use.

Try to stick to getting upgrades for Beta skills you have started to unlock early on. Getting upgrades for Beta skills will improve their power and overall effectiveness in battle. As a general rule, focus on Beta skills that you frequently use in battle.

Unlock Beta skills that can knock down enemies later.

Shield Breaker and Shockwave are also good Beta skills to get later as they can knock down enemies. This makes them useful for canceling the attack patterns and move follow-ups of certain enemies that make give you trouble in the game.

How to Unlock Skills

Spend SP at Camps to learn skills.

Skills can be learned by spending SP at the Skill Settings menu at Camps. Note that this feature is accessible at both regular Camps and Supply Camps.

How to Reset Skills

Use the SP Initializer.

You can reset skills using an SP Initializer at the Skill Settings menu. This allows you to respec and reallocate SP you used to unlock skills from any tree. You can buy an SP Initializer for 200G at the shop to reset your skills as many times as you like.

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