Gotham Knights features four skill trees for each playable character, with each character having access to a wide assortment of skills with which to carve out their own niche in gameplay. For Batgirl, these skill trees are “Justice”, “Grit”, “Oracle”, and “Knighthood.”
Justice gives her skills that improve her direct combat skills and allow her to deal additional damage with heavy attacks and critical hits, and it also provides her with resistance to stun while using her beatdown ability. Grit is defense focused, giving her additional health and defense, some self-healing ability, and even a limited-use self-revival ability.
Oracle gives her access to powerful hacking abilities that let her manipulate the battlefield and mess with security systems at a distance. Her Knighthood skills grant access to her unique glide ability along with a variety of combat utility skills.
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Best Justice Skills
As mentioned previously, Justice is Batgirl’s offensive-focused skill tree, and many of these skills will help her dish out tons of extra damage during combat.
Elite Beatdown & Piercing Beatdown
These two skills work in tandem to give Batgirl a tremendously powerful super attack in the form of Beatdown. By default, Beatdown is a guard-breaking flurry of attacks that dishes out some major damage, but adding Elite Beatdown makes it almost impossible for enemies to interrupt and raises her defense by 20% while she’s using it.
This alone greatly improves its usability, but investing in Piercing Beatdown too allows it to interrupt the red attacks used by enemies like the Mob Godmothers, Regulator Shockers, and Freaks using ball and chain weapons.
Heavyweight
Another particularly notable Justice skill is Heavyweight, which increases Batgirl’s heavy melee attack damage by 10% and also increases stun elemental effect buildup by 20%. Stun can leave enemies incapacitated and unable to fight back for a short time, so being able to dish it out more effectively allows Batgirl to take control of the battlefield by prioritizing the more dangerous targets.
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Best Grit Skills
The Grit skill tree provides Batgirl with tremendous survivability in combat, making her fantastic for solo play and also a great tank for drawing enemy focus during group play. These are some of the best Grit skills available.
Second Wind & Vigilante Resolve
Easily the best skill in this tree for adding to Batgirl’s survivability, Second Wind allows Batgirl to revive herself from defeat at 50% health once per fight. This allows her to recover from a terrible situation and turn things around, and if players also take the Vigilante Resolve skill she can use this skill twice in a single encounter.
Sense of Victory
A spectacular addition to Batgirl’s arsenal for the longer and tougher fights common to Villain case files and the main story, Sense of Victory allows her to restore some of her health when defeating an enemy. Any defeat will restore 4% health, but taking the enemy down with a grab strike or a takedown will restore 8% health instead, which can be fantastic for keeping Batgirl in the fight for longer.
Enemy Counter Focus
Another useful addition to Batgirl’s setup is the Enemy Counter Focus, which boosts her defense by 75% when she’s hit by enemy counter-attacks. Since counter-attacks can sometimes be tricky to spot and dodge this can be a helpful way to mitigate the damage they can cause.
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Best Oracle Skills
As the resident hacker of the group, Batgirl can weaponize these skills to great effect while exploring and in combat. These are some of the best skills available from the Oracle skill tree.
Remote Hacking & Hacking Overload
Perhaps an obvious choice, since it’s necessary to access the rest of the skill tree, but Remote Hacking is exceptionally useful when exploring the game world and sneaking around enemies. Remote Hacking allows Batgirl to disable electronic devices remotely by aiming at them in AR mode and hitting the indicated button.
Upgrading to Hacking Overload allows Batgirl to cause electrical explosions and rewire devices to target enemies. This allows her to use enemy traps and security systems against them to great effect.
Super Health Packs
This handy skill allows health packs to restore 20% more health and also enhances Batgirl’s defense by 50% for 10 seconds, making them highly useful and more efficient during long fights. In multiplayer it’s worth also picking up Health Packs + to share the effects of health packs with nearby allies, while also boosting their effectiveness further.
Shocking Devices
This excellent skill allows players to overcharge enemy guns and other electrical devices to electrocute them, stunning them and dealing some damage. This can be very useful for keeping large groups of enemies from overwhelming the player during combat and is particularly devastating against the Regulators due to their heavy reliance on technology.
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Best Knighthood Skills
The Knighthood skill tree is a bit different since it must first be unlocked via the Knighthood Challenges before any of its skills can be unlocked, and the very first skill in the tree is automatically acquired at no cost when the skill tree is unlocked. Here are the best skills in the Knighthood tree.
Grapple Pull
This skill is fantastic for increasing Batgirl’s combat mobility and simply allows her to use her grapple on enemies during combat. regular enemies will be pulled toward her while targeting large enemies allows her to pull herself toward them. This allows her to fluidly extend her combos and continue pressing the attack, and can also be used to pull enemies away from allies.
Enhanced Combo
Another great skill for Batgirl is Enhanced Combo, which adds an extra attack to both her melee combo and her ranged combo, extending her combos and allowing her to dish out more damage. The melee combo’s final hit also becomes a knockdown, leaving enemies briefly incapacitated on the ground following her assault.
Drone Ambush Blast
Drone Ambush Blast is a very potent ability in group fights, allowing Batgirl’s summoned drone (unlocked alongside the Knighthood Skill Tree as a Momentum Ability) to create a large damage burst when summoned that knocks enemies down. This allows her to dish out tremendous damage on a large group of foes, mitigating her general lack of AOE attacks otherwise.
Gotham Knights is available now for PS5, PC, and Xbox Series X/S.
