Boss Skills are special Nioh 2 Skills dropped by Bosses. These unique moves are hidden in the regular skill trees and can be unlocked by defeating certain bosses that use these skills. The skills are random drops from these bosses and do not cost skill points to unlock once obtained.
- This page shows all known boss skills divided by Weapon category. Please add more information by clicking "edit" on the top right of the page.
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Boss Skills in Nioh 2
Sword Skills
- Dragon Fang: Saito Yoshitatsu
- Izuna Drop: Ren Hayabusa
- Kurama Sword Dance: Minamoto no Yoshitsune
- Reverse Impact: Fujiwara no Chikata (from A Spirit's Return mission)
- Severing Spin: Minamoto no Yorimitsu
- True and Through: Azai Nagamasa
Dual Sword Skills
Spear Skills
Axes & Hammers Skills
Kusarigama Skills
Odachi Skills
Tonfa Skills
Hatchet Skills
Switchglaive Skills
Splitstaff Skills
Samurai Skills
Fist Skills
Ninjutsu Skills
Onmyo Magic Skills
- Anonymous
I think there is a slightly higher chance for skills to drop in higher difficulties or i had pure RNG, Dark samurai (dream of the samurai) 22 times no drop with 44% item drop rate, 109 luck (all 3 smithing plans dropped) +6.8 item drop vs humans. Dark Samurai (dream of the strong) 2nd attempt the art of war dropped with the same stats.
- Anonymous
A bit late to the party, but : thank you.. Whit reverse impact I have all skills, smiting text, titles now back to the dephs for that perfect scroll and weapen, miss nioh 1 dragon God
- Anonymous
Please add the Shiftling Skills again! You just removed them.
I wanted to see at Youtube what these do.
But I do not remember the name anymore, since you deleted the so fast.
- Anonymous
Hi, anon who updated the page multiple times in the last hour here. Apologies for all the revisions, it's my first time adding something, and thus I struggled a bit with it. Have learnt my lesson, will let the people who know what they're doing handle it in future.
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- Anonymous
Boss of new DLC mission 1 has at least one new Switchglaive skill. Found Arc of Chaos, very fun to play with.
- Anonymous
Otakemaru drops skills for the shiftling tree, i've gotten ferocious gale, and brutal combustion from him so far, both adding additional effects to charge attacks for feral and brute forms respectively
- Anonymous
Minamoto no Yorimitsu drops a new sword skill. Got it on the 2nd run. Some Vergil ****.
- Anonymous
Can confirm on The Dragon Clan the boss drops 3 ninjutsu skills and a sword/knuckle skill
- Anonymous
Can confirm that the 2nd dlc’s final boss ( the first form) drops an onmyo skill and the boss for the side mission ‘the dragon’s kin’ drops 2 skills
1 for ninjutsu and another for both the sword an the fists. The sword/fist skill is the exact same for both weapons and wil both be obtained from the same drop.
- Anonymous
Can confirm that hanzo drops his skill in winds of ruin, he doesn't need to be using the tonfas
- Anonymous
Can confirm that Benkei Drops the Sansetsukon Skill in the First dlc mission
- Anonymous
I've seen someone with the flame dragon bomb in nioh 2 my mind is still blown cant find anything about it
- Anonymous
For those wandering for the 1rst DLC : ( no spoiler )
2 skills on the final dlc boss
1 skill on the mysterious monk
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
Having a hard time getting Bracing Breeze for spear. Has anyone got it? Or, does it only drop on Ng+?
- Anonymous
it seems these skills are in the same item pool as the smithing text, so using the hunter blessing should boost the drop rate the same it does for the texts
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
Anyone know if these can just drop at any time, or if it's only in NG+?
- Anonymous
Doesn't Hanzo use a spear? Does he really drop the tonfa skill storm of strikes?
- Anonymous
I'm looking for the onmyo hidden skill anyone found or know if it even in game yet?
- Anonymous
Has anyone farmed the Odachi Dojo Mission to see if there is a hidden skill drop?
- Anonymous
Double-Headed Slice (8 attempts ) and Ultimate Sign of The Cross (3 attempts) both obtained by Tokichiro in The Two Faces of Hospitality
- Anonymous
Yea but wiki sais different.Idk mate seems pretty fair though , 4 skills for each weapon and not for duals only.
- Anonymous
Apparently there are 4 skills for each weapon. Now where do i find the other 3 tonfa skills? If Hanzo drops all of them im thrashing my tonfas.
- Anonymous
Anyone confirm mumyo drops fleeting edge been at her for 4 hours now ..
One or two hidden skills for most weapons, meanwhile sword gets six. HMMMMMM
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