10 Secret Video Game Sidekick Abilities You Totally Missed

5. Atreus’ Ratatoskr Summon - God Of War

God of War Kratos Atreus
Sony Interactive Entertainment

Atreus is certainly among the upper echelon of actually useful sidekicks. He helps out Kratos in all sorts of ways from his agility and endurance, to his linguistic ability, archery skills, and runic summoning ability. One particular summon, Ratatoskr, is fairly tricky to acquire. Unlike other summons, this animal companion can talk.

Also he’s not too stoked about being summoned.

Ratatoskr can be acquired by reaching the Light Elf Outpost after picking up the Magic Chisel. There you’ll find a Nornir chest that requires quite a lot of adept rune hunting to open, but doing so will grant you the Bitter Squirrel runic summon. This guy makes it super clear with a sea of insults that he is not okay with being summoned but depending on which arrows Atreus has equipped he will nonetheless dig you up health stones or rage stones, so that’s pretty useful.

Even if he does claim to have rabies. And rip into you incessantly.

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