Saints Row: Skills guide — The best skills to equip

Beating up your foes in Saints Row does seem like an easy task. After all, all you need to do is come in with guns blazing. Still, there are a few abilities that you can use as you progress to aid you in combat. Here’s our Saints Row skills guide to help you with the best level-up skills that the Boss can equip.

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Saints Row skills guide – The best skills for you to equip

Generally speaking, the skills in Saints Row are unlocked by earning XP and leveling up. It’s a fairly simple process. Barring some exceptions, you’ll obtain one new active skill (or passive) from level 2 onwards. However, do take note that you can only equip up to four any given time.

Level	Skill Name	Effect
2	Pineapple Express	Drop a grenade in your enemy’s pants and throw them away
3	Smokescreen	Toss a smoke bomb at your feet to confuse enemies
4	Proximity Mine	Throw a mine that explodes when hostiles go near it
5	Health Upgrade	Passive: Permanently increases your health
6	Tough Mother	Gain a temporary health boost to absorb damage and negate staggers
7	Frag Out	Throw a frag grenade
8	Flow Upgrade	Passive: Permanently increases your flow
9	Flaming Punch	Ignites your fist for an explosive punch
10	Health Upgrade	Passive: Permanently increases your health
11	Transfusion	Heal yourself and your friends when you deal damage to foes
12	Overscope	Pulls out a powerful sniper rifle; headshots cause explosions
13	Impulse Trap	An anti-gravity mine suspends nearby targets in mid-air so you can line up your shots
14	Flow Upgrade	Passive: Permanently increases your flow
15	Health Upgrade	Passive: Permanently increases your health
16	Berserker	Attacks deal more damage
17	Intercession	Calls more Saints to join the fight
18	Quick Draw	Pull out a powerful revolver and gun down up to four targets
19	Death Blossom	Spin around while firing bullets in every direction
20	Flow Upgrade	Passive: Permanently increases your flow
N/A	Quantum Aperture – Obtained as part of the Eurekabator Criminal Venture tasks	Creates a field that lets you shoot through walls and obstacles; increases the damage of bullets that pass through the field

The best skills in Saints Row

Here are some of what I consider the best skills in Saints Row. A couple are integral for general combat, while others are pretty decent once you get them later in the campaign:

• Pineapple Express – This allows you to grab an opponent, including shielded troopers, before tossing them away to go kaboom. It’s a good way to eliminate specialists without having to remove their shield bar for a takedown. The only downside is that you won’t be able to aim the throw properly, so you could miss most of the target’s other pals.
• Proximity Mine – If you do want a throwable explosive, choose this instead of Frag Out. The Proximity Mine is more reliable, as opposed to the frag grenade that enemies tend to dodge.
• Flaming Punch – I think this is one of the best skills in Saints Row due to its multi-kill capabilities. If you have a lot of enemies rushing you (i.e., Los Panteros or melee elites), you can send all of them flying with this blazing punch.
• Death Blossom – This one is obtained a bit later in your grind/progression. It does significant damage for crowd-clearing, and it’s flashy to boot.

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Saints Row is available via the Epic Games Store.

Saints Row: Skills guide — The best skills to equip
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