Dead Island 2 Skills - Best Skill Cards To Equip And Best Build

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There are dozens of skill cards to unlock in Dead Island 2, but they are not all equally beneficial. Here are the best skills in Dead Island 2.

By Mark Delaney on

Dead Island 2 uses a deep skill card system that allows you to further customize your Slayer character beyond their initial starting build. You'll unlock new skill cards early and often throughout the 15-hour story mode, but they won't all come in handy. Some are much better than others, including an early binary decision that, though it can be reversed, features a clear better and worse option. Here are the best skills to unlock in Dead Island 2.

The skill tree is broken into four categories: Abilities, Survivor, Slayer, and Numen. This guide will contain light spoilers as some late-game skills give away plot points, so just know that in advance. If that doesn't bother you, then continue onward. Even if you are spoiler-wary, you can still read about the best skills in the first two categories, Abilities and Survivor.

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This one is very important, as you can only equip dodge or block. You can change them at will, but everyone on our team agreed: Dodge is superior.

Similarly, you can equip flying kick or drop kick, but not both at the same time. The flying kick does more damage, but the drop kick sends zombies flying in a way that both gives you breathing room and is honestly a joy to witness.

You'll eventually have your choice of three special moves in this slot, and though we like them all, Dash Strike is a