As players punch and kick their way through Sifu, there are several skills that they can unlock by spending XP. What players choose to use largely depends on player preference. Some players are particularly skilled and can beat the entire game in 40 minutes without dying, but most probably haven’t mastered the game’s complex martial arts systems.
Skills can be unlocked for a single run. However, if players spend more XP, they can unlock skills permanently so that they last through all runs of the game. These skills persist so that players never need to purchase them again. While many skills are made to support different styles of fighting, there are some that everyone should get because of how useful they are.
Sifu is a difficult game, and there are currently no options to change the difficulty. That will change sometime in the future, but right now players must make do. Even the developers have offered tips for struggling players. If someone is dying repeatedly to the game’s enemies, they are not alone. They need every advantage they can get to win, and it all begins with unlocking the right skills.
Since it takes a bit of XP to permanently unlock skills in Sifu, players should try a run where their only goal is to get XP for those skills, rather than the main goal of beating a level. They can always try to beat it later. Here are the most useful skills.
Sifu is available on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and PC.