by In our guide to swing skills in Gotham Knights you will learn:
- How you use swing abilities
- How you build momentum
- How to learn new swing skills
Each hero in Gotham Knights uses a combination of melee and ranged attacks as well as powerful swing abilities while fighting crime. In the following guide we have put together all the information you need to know about the skills.
What are swing skills?
Sweep abilities are particularly powerful combat abilities that vary from hero to hero. These are active skills that you use to fight opponents.
In addition to the normal swing abilities, each hero has a particularly strong ability that is marked in gold and has a high cooldown .
To use a momentum ability, you need the appropriate amount of momentum . Momentum is generated automatically as you fight. Particularly daring maneuvers such as perfect attacks or perfect dodges generate the most momentum.
If you are hit by enemies, you lose momentum. How much momentum you currently have is displayed in a purple bar on the bottom right . As your adventure progresses, you can accumulate more and more momentum.
Swing abilities are especially good for defeating mini-bosses and controlling larger hordes of enemies. They can cause elemental effects or stun enemies for a short time.
How do I unlock new swing skills?
You can unlock new swing attacks by progressing the story and solving specific case files or challenges . If you want to know what swing skills you can currently unlock, you need to go into the skills menu and select the “Swing Skills” tab.
Swing abilities that have not yet been unlocked are marked with a padlock. Open challenges for unlocking new swing abilities can be found in the Challenges menu.
Many challenges require you to defeat a specific enemy type or complete a specific activity on the map. Premeditated crimes are only displayed to you when you have collected a certain number of clues from the respective faction.
For example, Robin is given the task of clearing owl nests from the Council of Owls. To gain access to the activity, you must first find and interrogate Council of Owl informants .
If you need to take out a specific enemy, but aren’t sure which faction the enemy belongs to, check the database . Switch to the “Profiles” tab and then select “Factions”. Here you can display all enemy types you have already fought in Gotham Knights.
