God Of War: 10 Best Abilities You Must Unlock First

8. Countering Blast

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A truth you'll learn early on in Kratos and Atreus' journey is that Santa Monica Studio created projectile-spewing enemies purely as a cheeky means of spoiling your fun. Draugr with the power to hurl flaming-hot balls of searing pain in Kratos' direction is bad enough, but Nightmares? Let's just say they live up to their name and then some.

Kratos can't always reliably deal with such threats in a swift manner - lobbing the axe leaves you wide open to melee aggressors - so your best bet in dealing with them is Countering Blast. With precision timing, Kratos can block and absorb most airborne threats into his shield and redirect them back-to-sender.

It's a manoeuvre that takes some practice to reliably use, but once mastered, you'll be melting swarms of the little buggers with their own toxic projectiles in no time.

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