Best Skills to Unlock First in Beast of Reincarnation

In Beast of Reincarnation, your two main characters, Emma and Ku, come with sprawling skill trees offering countless ways to tailor combat to your style. Knowing which skills to prioritize can redefine your early game and give you a significant edge.

How Skill Unlocking Works in Beast of Reincarnation

Beast of Reincarnation features a sizable and intricate skill tree divided between your two playable characters, Emma and Ku. At the very top, unique Blade Arts (for Emma) and Bloom Arts (for Ku) are tied to new flowers you collect throughout the story—these nodes unlock permanently once invested and can’t be refunded.

Below these are three core skill branches colour-coded by focus: blue for ranged, green for flower-planting abilities using hair, and red for melee skills. Each branch has a core skill that you need to upgrade before accessing deeper layers, but progressing requires meeting specific attribute thresholds—fluorescence boosts blue skills, vitality governs green, and strength fuels red.

You can easily toggle between the skills and attributes screen to check which stats need boosting to unlock or enhance your abilities. When you hit the required attribute mark, the associated skill icon lights up with an unlocking sound, signalling new powers at your disposal.

Emma’s Skill Priorities: Power and Versatility

Emma’s fighting style becomes far more effective early on by focusing first on skills like Shakuyaku, which helps to dispatch tankier enemies faster, sparing you endless hack-and-slash moments.

Getting airborne can be a game-changer, whether by floating with your hair or grappling to Ku’s Bloom Arts flowers. The Helm Splitter skill allows you to hold the attack button midair and deliver a powerful area-of-effect slam that staggers multiple enemies at once. It’s devastating when enemies cluster and highly satisfying to pull off thanks to the mobility involved. The skill’s range improves significantly as you invest in it further, maintaining its high damage.

Branching from Sprout Shukuyaku, Helm Splitter gives you a natural way to attack from above by launching off blooms and slamming down with impact.

Adding Iaido for Crowd Control

Iaido is a special skill that activates wide-range attacks while Emma draws her katana from its sheath mid-combo. The flashy move can hit several foes and provides variety beyond basic sword strikes and entanglement meter usage. It takes some setup, so using it after binding enemies makes it easier to land.

Each upgrade to Iaido adds more hits, expanding your crowd control capability—a crucial boost since Emma’s offensive options without entanglement or Bloom Arts are otherwise somewhat limited.

Why Dodging Takes a Backseat to Parrying and Rolling

Combat in Beast of Reincarnation isn’t built around dodging. Most encounters are focused on parrying to restore Ku’s resources and stagger enemies more effectively, especially during melee engagements. However, rolling remains valuable, especially for creating space against relentless elite foes.

Ku’s Skills: Versatile Support and Effective Mods

Ku’s three skill trees function slightly differently. His bloom arts enhancements and equipment mods allow you to tailor his automatic and manual abilities. His left and middle trees focus mainly on Bloom Arts mods, while the right tree governs his auto behaviors.

Choosing Ku’s skills can be complex since he complements whatever Emma’s build might be—ranged, melee, or status effects.

Among universally handy skills, Ku’s taunt takes the heat off Emma by drawing enemy attention, opening opportunities to hit from behind or recover health safely. Alongside a healing mod that purges negative status effects from Emma, it significantly boosts your survivability early on.

A couple of status effect-related mods like Status Effect Amp speed up how fast you can apply debuffs, which is a powerful start in fights. Upgrades such as Shocking Vigor and Magmatic Mantle reward you with stat buffs when attacking enemies afflicted with shock or burn, so keep an eye out for health bar indicators showing these effects.

Balancing these mods with Ku’s blooming abilities can dramatically improve your battle flow, especially since enemies in the second zone can down you quickly if you’re not careful.

Respecializing Skills Later

If you worry about locking yourself into choices too early, the game offers the chance to respec attributes, core skills, and secondary skills with some amber, but only after meeting an NPC named Makoto in the second area. That means you can experiment and refine your builds after getting a basic feel for combat dynamics.

For those looking to fine-tune their Beast of Reincarnation experience, prioritizing Emma’s aerial and wide-range skills alongside Ku’s supportive mods will set you up well for the challenges ahead.