Discover everything you need to know about the best Charms in Ghost of Yotei, including how to acquire them.
Charms in Ghost of Yotei are special equippable items that grant passive bonuses to your character. You can equip yourself to modify or enhance your abilities. Each charm gives a unique effect like increasing parry or dodge effectiveness, boosting damage, improving stealth, restoring health, or increasing resource yield. Major charms provide stronger effects but occupy larger slots.
Minor charms, on the other hand, give smaller boosts. You can acquire the charms by exploring the world and completing specific quests or activities. The charm capacity expands as you progress through the story. Choosing the best charm to complement your playstyle and build can be challenging, as each one grants unique bonuses. In this guide, we’ll discuss the best charms in Ghost of Yotei, including what makes them the best ones.
Best Charms in Ghost of Yotei
Below are the best Charms to use in Ghost of Yotei.
1. Charm of Futsunushi
One of the best charms in Ghost of Yotei is the Charm of Futsunushi. A charm that increases your Perfect Parry and Perfect Dodge window further, on top of the armor’s effect. This makes them much easier to pull off. Get this charm by climbing and completing the Faithful Leap Shrine, located in the Tokachi Range.
2. Father’s Charm
Father’s Charm: The Father’s Charm will allow you to regain health by a major amount at max upgrade, every time you pull off a Perfect Parry. Unlock Sumi Paintings around the world, as the enhancements of your Father’s Charm are tied to the number of your unlocked paintings. The higher the upgrade, the more health you regenerate after every perfect parry. This will allow you to conserve spirit charges, so you can use them for more healing to last in a fight or use them to perform offensive spirit techniques instead.
3. Takezo’s Charm of Bold Deflection
Parrying inflicts a major amount of additional Stagger damage. Defeat Takezo’s Disciple at the Dueling Tree. You can find this area to the west of Yubari Lake in the Tokachi Range region. At higher levels, the additional stagger becomes major. It synergizes well when combined with charms, armor, or builds that boost your parry effectiveness.
4. Charm of Homusubi
This charm increases your fire damage to enemies in combat. This alone is solid, but it really shines when paired with Charms of Burning Blades. This is because it lets your Kunai inflict fire damage and ignite flammable objects. Combine this with the Homusubi, and the Kunai become mini fireballs. Being a Major Utility charm means it occupies a larger slot. This charm is useful in builds that lean into elemental damage, burn effects, or fire synergy.
5. Mother’s Charm
A gift from your mother. Her presence on the wind quickens your Arrows, increasing their damage by a minor amount. Mother’s Charm enhances your ranged damage. Use the bow against the enemies if this charm is upgraded. You can locate this charm in the Mount Yotei Shrine at the end of a path.
6. Charm of Hidden Blades
If you want to throw three additional Kunai, then this is the best charm for you. You can clear out small groups or instantly take down multiple targets before anyone can react. Charm of Hidden Blades is also unlocked by doing the Winter Farms questline in Tashio Ridge.
7. Charm of Mount Yotei
Charm of Mount Yote is easily one of the best defensive charms in the game, allowing you to mitigate all types of damage by a moderate amount. The less damage you take, the easier it is for you to regain your HP to full health. This charm also gives you an additional major amount of health after every successful parry. The added HP regen of the father’s charm and Yotei does stack. Get this charm by clearing the Reliquary of Courage located in Yotei Grasslands. Solving more Reliquary puzzles around the world will further upgrade its effect. So, more healing for you in the long run.
8. Takezo’s Charm of the Stout Heart
This is another upgradeable charm that increases your healing technique. So, every spirit charge used on healing is worth it. You do have a lot of HP in the endgame. So, this will greatly help in covering your loss of HP, which matches the theme of this build. Get this charm by defeating Takezo’s Disciples under the dueling tree in Tokachi Range.
9. Charm of Thoughtful Restoration
This charm allows you to increase the maximum health. Complete the Horizon View Hot Spring in the Yotei Grasslands to gain Charm of Thoughtful Restoration as a reward. The more hot springs you discover, the more you can upgrade their effect. It occupies a large charm slot, so you get a decent return for that slot. Use this charm if you’re finding that you’re dying too easily. Charm of Thoughtful Restoration pairs well with other defensive charms that let you regain or mitigate damage in combat.
10. Charm of Kanayago
Enhance the amount of common and rare metals and black powder collected when scavenging. Make your way to the top of the Fall’s Rest Shrine in the Yotei Grasslands to acquire Charm of Kanayago. You can find this shrine in the southeast of Lake Shikotsu. It boosts resource yield for metals & black powder. Use Charm of Kanayago to upgrade weapons & armor faster.
11. Charm of Bountiful Harvest
Enhance the amount of wood, flowers, and plants gained when collecting them. Charm of Bountiful Harvest is located at the base of an old tree in the Shikotsu Woods. Move near the lake and tree stump just west of The Old Stables. Use this charm for resource gathering, allowing you to double the amount of organic materials.
12. Charm of Generous Opponents
Chance to recover Quickfire ammo when looting the dead. Completing the Clear Water Fox Den at the north of the Iwor Woods in the Nayoro Wilds allows you to gain Charm of Generous Opponents. It unlocks the effect once you clear that Fox Den. Charm of Generous Opponents doesn’t take up a major slot, so it’s less costly.
13. Charm of Masaka
This charm makes your smoke bomb another major healing source with every use of the smoke bomb. Not only will you be concealing yourself, but you will also gain health in the process. This will then lead to a chain assassination, making it very useful when taking multiple targets. Get the charm of Masaka by climbing the enduring hold shrine and paying respect to each shrine.
14. Charm of Fearful End
You regain a major amount of Health by using a Smoke Bomb. Make your way to the Enduring Hold Shrine in Teshio Ridge. This region is located in the north-west region of the Sentinel Forest. Pair this charm with Chain Assassination or the Metsubushi to stun enemies and eliminate multiple enemies in a fight.
15. Charm of Lingering Shadows
Mitigate the enemy detection speed by a major amount. Completing the High Wall Fox Den in the Teshio Ridge region in the north, within the Sarufutsu River, allows you to gain Charm of Lingering Shadows. This charm is useful if your build is aggressive, relying on confrontation rather than stealth.
16. Charm of Eager Revenge
Mitigate the kill streak requirement of Ghost Stance by 1. You can purchase the Charm of Eager Revenge from Taro the Scavenger for 1,000 Coins.
17. Charm of Onryo’s Protection
Taking damage reduces kill streak count by 1 instead of resetting it. It cannot be reduced past 1. Kill streaks power Onryo’s Howl and other deadly techniques. You can purchase the Charm of Onryo’s Protection from Taro the Scavenger for 1,000 Coins.
18. Charm of Masakado
Onryo’s Will revives you at full health. Make your way to the top of the Amber Respite Shrine in Tokachi Range. This area is located to the west of Ubari Lake and Ohara Plains.
