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The boy wonder, Robin featured inGotham Knightstakes his place as the morestealth-focused characterof the group with excellent skills for misdirection, remaining undetected, and manipulating his enemies to create advantages — making him an amazing character to play for those who enjoy a more stealthy approach to the game.
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Robin’s skill trees consist ofSlugger, Shadow, Tinkering, and Knighthood. Each brings fun benefits to Robin and the way he plays. Here are the best skills that you may look for in these trees.
Best Slugger Tree Abilities
Slugger offers Robinincreases to Critical Chance and Critical Damageas well asimproved damage when striking enemies from behind, but its better skills are certainly its ability to apply Elemental Effects and allow Robin to take advantage of them.
Elemental Decoywill allow Robin’s Decoy Momentum Ability toapply a large amount of Elemental Effect damage to an enemy that attacks it, pairing well with the following skill in the treeExploding Decoythat allowsthe Decoy to leave behind a puddle of Elemental residuewhich will deal Elemental Effect damage to any enemy that walks into it.
The Elemental Effect Damage applied to the enemy from these skills is determined by Robin’s melee weapon, so be sure to find a melee weapon that uses your preferred element. If you’re struggling to pick, Cryogenic is a useful Element to go for.
Finishing off the tree,Elemental Focus: Critical Chance and Critical Damage are increased by 20% against targets with an active Elemental Effect applied to them,which will allow Robin to increase his damage after the use of Elemental Decoy and Exploding Decoy to help Elemental Effects.
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Best Shadow Tree Abilities
The Shadow Tree is Robin’s gold mine of skills that will allow him to become the best Stealth-based character in the game. This tree features skills that will allow him to exploit the enemy’s unawareness and remain undetected as he takes each of them down.
Turnabout Takedownis a simple but incredibly useful skill that will allow Robin touse Takedowns and Stealth Strikes on large enemiessuch as Bulldozers, Shockers, and Godmothers. This skill will allow Robin to deal huge damage to these miniboss enemies or even outright kill them with a single use — especially when paired withStealth Damage+, which will increase his stealth strike and takedown damage by 20%.
An ode to the old Arkham games,Vantage Hanging Takedownis a skill that allows Robin toperform a special takedown from vantage pointsthat will hang the target upside down from the vantage point, leaving them screaming and flailing. Pair this with theVantage Hanging Takedown Mine, which will drop a proximity mine that lures enemies after performing a Vantage Hanging Takedown; this combo allows Robin to manipulate his opponents and shepherd them into certain areas, taking them down entirely from within the shadows.
At the end of the tree,Shadow Renewal is a useful tool that will restore 25% of Robin’s health after he performs a successful takedownon a target, granting him impressive self sustain.
Best Tinkering Tree Abilities
The Tinkering Tree greatly improves Robin’s ability to both apply and resist Elemental Effect damage as well as allowing him to improve his ranged attacks.
Elemental Charge, the opening skill of the tree,increases the speed of Robin’s Elemental Effect Build-up by 25%,allowing him to apply Elemental Effects much faster, which he can then take advantage of with the tree’s final skills.
Enhanced Elemental Effectscauses Elemental Effects applied by Robin tolast twice as longas usual.Elemental Burstis another excellent skill; when Robin deals Elemental damage, it will grant him a 5% chance to deal additional AoE Element Damage and reduce the enemies Elemental Resistance by 50% for 10 seconds. This coupling of skills turns Robin into anexcellent character for controlling opponentsthrough the use of Elemental Effects such as Cryogenic, Bioelectric, and Concussive — or by simply dealing huge amounts of damage through Incendiary and Toxic.
Though a somewhat moresituationalskill,Enhanced Sticky Pelletswill cause Robins Sticky pellets to deal 33% more damage and last up to 10 seconds, this makes his Sticky pelletsgreat for use as traps and luresto bait enemies into certain areas and lure them into stepping on the pellets.
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Best Knighthood Tree Abilities
Once unlocked bycompleting the Knighthood challenges as Robin, The Knighthood tree offers further ways to improve Robin’s ability as well as directly improve hisMicrobots Ultimate by reducing its cooldown or increasing the number of spawned microbots.
Stealth Takedown+will grant Robin a series ofbuffs for 15 seconds after performing a takedown, increasing his Damage, Critical Chance, Defense, and Elemental Effect build-up, allowing him to start fights with a huge advantage against his opponents.
Aerial Attack Smokewill offer Robin a hit-and-run type of play style — hitting an opponent with an aerial attack will be followed by acloud of smokethatallows Robin to re-enter stealth.
Slideways Takedown allows Robin to disrupt enemy formations and take out valuable targets that may otherwise be well protected and difficult to approach.The skill allows Robin to use AR modeto target an enemy and teleport them to himself where he will then perform a takedown.
