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In NARAKA: BLADEPOINT, you will be able to form a team with your friends and together win in this battle royale world. Each player will get to choose a character that suits their playstyle to fight against other players as well as aiding their team to achieve victory.
With a number of characters, you can choose from, your fights are always different. This is why learning about all of the characters can be really important. In this guide, we’ll show you how you can play the Akos Hu character. Then, you’ll know what you should do as you get into fights, how to protect yourself and what you can do to support your teammates.
Akos Hu Guide for Complete Beginners
Abilities Overview
Your first ability, Roar, will let you strike nearby enemies and gain a damage reduction. This damage reduction effect will increase as you hit more enemies. You can use this ability to block all hit damage taken before the strike takes effect.
Your modifications are Blast and Terror. With Blast, you will unleash a shockwave towards the direction you aim, which you can also enhance by charging. The charged ability will knock your opponent backwards. This will temporarily stun them for a short duration. This will help you create a window your damaging your opponents or start a combo. For example, you can follow up with a Blue Focus right after.
With Terror, you will roar, unleashing a shockwave, dealing damage and enemies, making them unable to move. During this time, they will not be able to do anything. This is a great tool for you to temporarily stun an opponent and lets your team do the damage.
You can also use this ability before you start a combo. This will allow you to stun your opponent in one place before you run up to them with a powerful Blue Focus attack. Or you can also start a long combo that deals high damage to your opponent.
Overall, Roar is an ability you can use to protect both you and your teammates thanks to the effects. The modifications either focuses on protection, damage or crowd control. Depending what you want to do in-game, you’ll want the right effects accordingly. If you are looking for a flexible option to use in most situations, go for the first ability.
When it comes to your ultimate, you will also have 3 options to choose from. Overall, his best two ultimate abilities are the first two. When you activate your abilities, you will go into a different state with new attack ways. You will gain higher mobility and damage during this state with a new secondary move called the “Pounce”.
Your first ultimate will let you do 3 damaging abilities at your opponent. As you attack, you’ll be able to see a tiger spirit performing joint attacks to help you deal damage to your enemy. This is a great ability for you to use to deal high damage.
With “Pounce”, you will be given a gold focus effect. Which means you can block almost every single attack from other players. This will stop opponents from hitting your teammates with a gold focus move. Or you can use this ability as a way to start a combo, you have many options when it comes to using this ability.
Your third ability, Lockdown, is all about locking your enemies down in one place. This is good for specific team comps, so pay attention to what your teammates are bringing with you into battle. In the end, coordination makes this ability works greatly.
Combos
It’s recommended for you to utilize your hop whenever you are in your ultimate form. If you hope once, you’ll get the purple focus. If you do it twice, you’ll get the golden focus the next time you use Pounce.
The most common start of a combo that will lead to many of the variations is using Pounce. Most of the time, you will want to use your gold focus Pounce at your opponent, followed by an uppercut. This will allow your opponent to stay airborne, opening up new opportunities for you to start a high damaging combo at your opponent.
If you use your second ultimate, you can use a Pounce, followed by an uppercut and your Grab Ultimate. Once they are in the air, you can knock them back while also jumping on top of them like a real tiger. Almost like you’re hunting down a prey!
That is your Ability Walkthrough along with some combos you can do when you use the Akos Hu character. Overall, this is a character with decent damage along with 1v1 capabilities. His abilities choices also allow you to trade a little bit of damage for crowd control effects, which greatly supports your teammates in battle.
When it comes to your combos, there are many variations you can utilize. Some of your abilities require charging as well, so use the right one in the right circumstances. Your ultimate gives you great mobility, which lets you kite and also do decent damage to your opponent. As you practice, you’ll eventually get better and become more ready to fight against almost anyone!
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