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In the original Sonic Generations, you could equip both Classic and Modern Sonic with a series of skills that boosted their stats, or gave them new mechanics entirely. This system is basically identical inSonic X Shadow Generations, though with a single new skill added.
It’s been a long time since the original though, so we’ve newly compiled every single Skill that you can unlock for each Sonic, where you get them, and just how exactly they all work. So let’s get int and get Sonic equipped with some mad skills.
How Do Skills Work In Sonic X Shadow Generations?
Skills are a pretty simple endeavor in Sonic Generations, and not as complex as you might think. There’s no experience or upgrade paths here, just plain and simple Skills. Each Skill has a point cost, withthe lowest cost being ten, and the highest being 100. Your maximum equip load can only be 100, so all of your abilities combined have to fit within that limit.
Mind you, that doesn’t mean you can equip ten Skills with a point cost of ten.You can only have five Skills equipped at a time. However, you can also make five Skill loadouts, and these are independent for each version of Sonic. This means you can make a series of different loadouts and swap them out for each level.
For example, you might want to equip Breath Holder for Chemical Plant and Seaside Hill, but they’d be useless in Rooftop Run.Skill loadouts let you quickly change without having to reset your Skillsevery level.
Every Skill And How To Unlock Them
So how do you unlock these copious Skills for our deeply blue Hedgehogs? It’s quite simple - play the game. No, but they really do unlock from just about every activity.Collect Red Star Rings, beat certain Challenge Acts, finish the story, buy them from the shop, and so on.
Some of the Skills are pretty simple, like running faster though others, like Classic Sonic’s Homing Attack or Modern Sonic’s Endless Boost can change how you play the game entirely. We’ve listedwhere each and every Skill can be foundbelow and just about everything else you might want to know about them.
Stop immediately, regardless of speed
10
Buy from the shop
Land on your feet after getting damaged
20
Begin with 10 Rings after a restart
40
Get an extra life when you’re out of lives
50
Dropped Rings takes 10 seconds to disappear
30
Lose less speed when moving uphill and in water
Slows down time temporarily
80
Complete the story
100
Both
Blast Off
Press the Boost button when “Go!” appears for a free Boost
Increase the speed of your Wall Jumps
Create a shockwave when stomping on the ground
Enables Quick Step when on a skateboard
Increases speed when starting to run
Breaking enemies and objects fills the Boost Gauge
Extend the length of your Boost Gauge
60
Boost Gauge fills automatically over time
Begin with a full Boost Gauge upon restart
Boost Gauge stays full but you may’t collect Rings
70
Shield enables midair dashes and immunity to fire effects
Enables a Bound Jump to help get some air
Classic
Thunder Shield
Enables double-jumping, magnetizes Rings towards you, and grants immunity to electrical effects
Allows you to attack mid-jump
Start the stage with temporary invincibility
A Shield protects you from a single hit
Run faster, plain and simple
Your Spin Dash will carry your further
Allows you to see hidden items and Springs
Enables the use of Homing Attacks
Push movable objects faster
Stay underwater longer
Hop on a skateboard whenever you want
Ring Time
Turns enemies in your vicinity into rings while the ability is active
Drop Dash
After a jump, press and hold the same button to Drop Dash
Default skill
Drop Dash is a skillfor Classic Sonic, though it is newly built into Modern Sonic’s controls.
That’s a whole lot of Skills!37 in total, with 15 of them for Classic Sonic, 14 for Modern Sonic, and eight of them shared. There are plenty enough Skills for you to make some varied loadouts there that can have a pretty dramatic effect on how you play through all of these levels.
Oh, and getting every Skill unlocks the achievement,Mad Skillz.
