Assassin’s Creed Shadows Achievements Guide

This guide will show you how to unlock and completer all 58 normal and hidden Achievements (Trophies) in Assassin’s Creed Shadows. We also added the newly added 11 achievements from the Claws of Awaji achievement.

List of all Achievements / Trophies

Below is the full list of Achievements, also known as Trophies for the Assassin’s Creed Shadows base game.

Some of the achievements are explained in individual guides that will help you unlock them while completing all of the required objectives and steps. Others are explained in the next segment below this list.

Icon	Achievement	Requirements
	Prologue	Complete the Prologue
	A New League Rises	Complete Act 1 of the main story
	An Oath Fulfilled	Complete Act 2 of the main story
	Fall of the Shinbakufu	Complete Act 3 of the main story
	Epilogue	Complete the Epilogue
	Death Blossom	Defeat all Shinbakufu
	The Thief	Meet Gennojo
	The Toxin Master	Meet Oni-yuri
	The Eager Assassin	Meet Yagoro
	The Ronin	Meet Ibuki
	The Warrior Monk	Meet Yaya
	The Sharpshooter	Meet Katsuhime
	Build Your League	Recruit your first ally
	Front of the Pack	Fully train an ally
	Art of Ninjutsu	Master the way of the shinobi
	Art of Kenjutsu	Master the way of the samurai
	Make it Personal	Engrave your first weapon
	Better than a Bucket	Equip legendary gear in all slots
	Limitless	Find a legendary piece of gear of each type
	In Case of Trouble	Fully upgrade your tools and ammunition
	Suture Self	Fully upgrade your rations
	Sometimes	Perform a landing roll
	Reeding is Fundamental	Escape conflict by using a breathing reed to hide in shallow water
	Just Your Shadow	Distract the same enemy 3 times with shinobi bells
	Hook, Line and Swinger	Stay airborne by swinging from one grappling hook point to another
	Acrobatics	Perform a leap of faith from a grappling hook swing
	Leap of Fail	Perform a leap of faith as Yasuke
	Adept Shinobi	Perform your first assassination
	Master Shinobi	Assassinate an enemy through a shoji door
	Unseen	Perform 5 assassinations in a row without being noticed or entering combat
	Giant Slayer	Assassinate a powerful guardian in one go
	Adept Samurai	Perform your first Finisher as Yasuke
	Master Samurai	Parry an incoming projectile
	Unstoppable	Use Samurai Stand before performing a Finisher on an enemy
	This is Japan, Actually	Kick an enemy from a high place
	Overdesign III	Perform a Finisher on an enemy that is both Poisoned and Dazed
	Final Hearing	Sheath your weapon immediately after an enemy dies from Bleed
	Adventurer	Shoot an enemy in the knee with an arrow
	Mortal Reminder	Complete an Objective Board
	Test Your Might	Defeat the final enemy in the tournament
	Kofun Raider	Complete your first kofun
	Good Form	Complete your first kata
	Zen Master	Complete all Kuji-kiri
	A Rare Occurrence	Complete all legendary sumi-e
	Collector	Complete a collection
	Sole Sanctum	Unlock the Hideout
	Chase the Morning	Add a sumi-e to the Hideout
	Against Wood and Stone	Fully upgrade a building in the Hideout
	Everybody Benefits!	Adopt a pet
	Happy Place	Reach the highest point on the map
	Pathfinder	Visit every province on the map
	Scouting Mission	Gather information using a scout
	Would You Kindly?	Complete a contract in each province
	Made You look!	Look for treasure behind the waterfall in the Hideout
	Critical Hit	Complete the Seta River Killers
	Enjoy the Ride	Reach Level 80
	Stars Unseen	Reach Knowledge Rank 10
	Worth Its Wait	Obtain two golden Katana

Achievement Walkthroughs

This segment will give you detailed instructions how to unlock all of the trickier achievements to 100% the game.

All Mastery Path Achievements

There are three achievements requiring you to fully unlock a specific Mastery path – two for Naoe and one for Yasuke.

To do this, you have to unlock Mastery Rank 6 by earning Knowledge Points. Then you invest Mastery Points into every ability, passive and upgrade on that Mastery path.

You can reset your Mastery Points at any time free of charge. There is almost never need for you to go our of your way to farm Mastery Points.

Some slots require you to progress further into the story. Be sure to complete all quests that are part of Naoe’s or Yasuke’s personal story board as well as The Shinbakufu storyline.

Here is the list of all achievements related to Mastery paths

• Art of Ninjutsu – Naoe’s Shinobi Mastery Path
• Art of Kenjutsu – Yasuke’s Samurai Mastery Path
• In Case of Trouble – Naoe’s Tools Mastery Path

Make it Personal

To earn this achievement, you have to engrave a weapon. To do that, you have to first build the Forge in the Hideout and upgrade it to Tier 2. To be clear, you don’t need to engrave the first weapon you get in the game. Any weapon would do.

Better than a Bucket

There are five slots for gear in your inventory. You have to find at least one legendary item for each slot and equip it. This is not too hard and is achievable already in the first region, Izumi Settsu. We have complete catalogs to all Legendary Weapons, all legendary Armors and all legendary Trinkets and Amulets.

Below is an example list with Legendary items for Naoe you can pick up early in the game from the first two open regions -Izumi Settsu and Yamashiro.

Icon	Item	Location
	Yurei-Walker Hood	Yamazaki Castle, Yamashiro
	Tools Master Gear	Katano Castle, Izumi Settsu
	Bloodshade	Boat west of Osaka, Izumi Settsu
	Deathbloom	Sarumaru Shrine, Yamashiro
	Amaterasu’s Blessing	Old Kofun, Izumi Settsu

Limitless

You can use our Legendary Gear catalogs to find every single Legendary gear item in the game. Here is a list for each type, if you are just after this achievement:

Sometimes

To be able to unlock this achievement, you will need to first unlock the Igan Rll passive perk from Naoe’s Shinobi Mastery. I highly recommend you unlock Ninja Fall as well. This will allow you to roll right before you land from any height and significantly lower the number of injuries and desynchronizations you will experience with Naoe.

You can only get this achievement with Naoe. Yasuke is not very good at falls and even worse at landings. In fact, you will get the achievement “Leap of Fail” the first time you try to make a leap of fate with Yasuke. His comments after each failed landing continue to be fun even after hundreds of jumps.

Reeding is Fundamental

To unlock the Reeding is Fundamental achievement, you need to get the passive perk “Shallow Water Breathing” from Naoe’s Shinobi Mastery Path.

Find some enemies near a shallow water pool, attack them, run away and prone into the water. This only works in shallow basins, not in rivers or the ocean.

Just Your Shadow

To distract the same enemy 3 times with shinobi bells, you first need to acquire this tool. The Shinobi Bell is available in Naoe’s Tools Mastery Path, at Rank 2.

This achievement was a bit buggy at the time of this publication. It is expected to be fixed with a patch in the beginning of April. The bug was that due to proximity issues, the bell distractions were not always acknowledged as such. The NPCs were ALWAYS going for the bell, so there were no gameplay-related issues, but the actions didn’t always register for the achievement.

Hook, Line and Swinger

You have to grapple from one hook to another without falling on the ground. This is easily achievable on the Hidden Trails as well as in some of the Kofun you will explore.

There is a double-grapple-hook segment in the Old Kofun, which is likely the first Kofun you will stumble on and explore.

Acrobatics

This one is very easy to do and the Old Kofun is a perfect location to achieve it. Same double-hook spot that I described in the previous segment. While swinging, you can just jump in the middle and Naoe will perform a leap of faith automatically.

Master Shinobi

To perform an assassination through a shoji door. Every paper interior or exterior doors of every house and building works for that.

To be able to perform this assassination, you need to first unlock the passive perk “for it from the “Shoji Door Assassination” from the Assassin Mastery Path. Only Naoe can learn this trick.

Giant Slayer

Guardians are among the most powerful and tankiest enemies you will encounter in Assassin’s Creed Shadows. They spawn when you put a region on alert and become Wanted. You will encounter many of them in Castles.

To assassinate a powerful guardian in one go, you can activate the “Guaranteed Assassination” setting from the Difficulty Tuning tab in the menu. You can only tweak this out of combat.

A better and more natural way to achieve a single-hit assassination is to max out the Assassin Mastery and use Engravings to increase Health Chunks removed on Assassination.

Here are two builds for Naoe to help you with that:

• Mid Game: Assassination Damage I and II from the Assassin Tree, Apprentice Assassin Hood with Legendary Engraving: +2 Health Segments removed on Assassinations in shadows (gained from Yurei-Walker Hood)
• Late Game: Assassination Damage I, II, and III. Master Assassin Gear. Assassination Damage III can be substituted with the previous ingraving for +2 in Shadows.

Yasuke’s situation is similar in terms of equipment. He too can perform Assassinations, but his version is Brutal and he can only do it once before everyone around is alerted.

Yasuke’s Brutal Assassination passive from the Samurai Mastery Path allows him to remove 3 Health Chunks. You can upgrade it to remove 4 additional Health Chunks, which is more than enough for the task.

Unstoppable

To unlock the Samurai Stand ability from the Samurai Mastery Path you need to complete the “Nobotsuna’s Students” quest. Th ability is on the third row, so you will also need enough Knowledge Points to unlock Mastery Tier 3.

This is Japan, Actually

One of the funniest achievements in the game requires you to use the Tier 1 ability War Kick from the Samurai Mastery Path. You have to kick an opponent from a cliff.

You can do this at any Viewpoint with hostile NPCs at the bottom of the tree, like the Sewara Inari Shrine Viewpoint over in northeastern Kii.

Overdesign III

For this one, you have to kill with a Finisher an enemy that is both Poisoned and Dazed at the same time. You can achieve it easily with Naoe. Use any weapons that has Poison Buildup and Daze Buildup.

You don’t need a special build for that. Doing it on a large enemy would be easier as you will have more time to land more hits to build up the afflictions.

You need to perform the Finisher while both afflictions are ticking, not while any of them is building up. The Daze meter is an orange circle and the Poison is purple.

Final Hearing

Similar top Overdesign III, for this achievement you will need a weapon with Bleed Buildup bonus. You have to build up the Bleed and wait for its ticks to take out the opponent. Then immediately hold the button to sheath your weapon. Yasuke has many Long Katanas that add Bleed and can do the job.

Adventurer

To shoot an enemy in the knee with an arrow, you will need Yasuke and a bow. Any bow and any arrow would do.

Mortal Reminder

You are first introduced to the Objective Board shortly after the linear tutorial in the beginning of the game. The Objectives Board contains many circles with NPCs, some friendly quest givers, others – targets for assassination. Complete any of them to earn this achievement.

Test Your Might

To get the achievement, you have to unlock and complete The Tournament quest. TO start the quest, talk to Gyoji, who will appear right outside the Hideout.

For him to appear and give you the quest for The Tournament, you need to progress enough into The Shinbakufu order.

Chase the Morning

To add a sumi-e to the Hideout, you will need the Study building or any of the additional Small, Medium and Large Rooms you can purchase from merchants. You also need at least one sumi-e drawing.

Go to the Hideout, activate the “Improve the Hideout mode” and select the Study building (or any of the other buildings that allow Wall Station customizations) to customize it. In the Customize menu, navigate to Stations and select Wall Station. Then choose a sumi-e from the list of available drawings.

Everybody Benefits

To adopt a pet, find and interact with one. There are plenty of dogs and cats (and other creatures!) available in the world.

Happy Place

The highest point on the map is Mount Hakkyo. This is a Viewpoint located in the southeastern corner of Yamato, on the border with Kii. The Viewpoint is east of Nyoirinji Temple, in the Yoshino sub-region.

Pathfinder

There are nine provinces, or as we call them, regions, in Assassin’s Creed Shadows. They all open up for free exploration after you complete the linear heavy story-driven tutorial.

Each region has a minimum recommended level. If you engage in combat with an enemy who is a higher level than you by 3 or more, the game will soft cap your attacks.

You will be barely scratching the opponent, while they will one-shot you. This is a level-related mechanic, not a matter of gear.

Here is the list of all nine regions with their recommended levels:

Region	Level
Izumi Settsu	1
Yamashiro	10
Omi	18
Harima	23
Iga	23
Wakasa	29
Yamato	29
Tamba	35
Kii	35

Would You Kindly?

Completing Contracts is one of the best methods of obtaining crafting and Hideout resources. After you unlock a Kakurega in a region, you can pick up to three contracts per season when you visit the safehouse.

These contracts are local, within the region where the kakurega is located. You can pick up contracts from different kakuregas all around the map. You need to complete at least one contract in each one of the nine regions to unlock the Would You Kindly? achievement.

Made You Look!

Another funny achievement is Made You Look! To earn it, you have to go inside the small cave behind the waterfall in the Hideout. The waterfall is in the northeast corner of the area, where the Kuji-kiri spot is.

While there is no treasure in this cave, in a few other occasions there would be treasures behind waterfalls, so keep checking.

Claws of Awaji Achievements

There are 11 new achievements from the Claws of Awaji expansion. They are all earned on the new island. Some are hidden, because they are related to the story.

Icon	Achievement	How to unlock it	Visibility
	Ran	Escape Sumoto Castle Story | Walkthrough	Hidden
	Hunters Hunted	Defeat all three of Yukari’s taisho Story | Walkthrough	Hidden
	Unity	Return the Regalia to the Emperor Story | Walkthrough	Hidden
	Clawless	Eliminate all targets in Awaji Gameplay | Guide	Visible
	The Stick of Truth	Equip a Legendary Bo Gameplay	Visible
	One, Two, Sweep	Eliminate an enemy after using all three postures of the Bo in a single combat Gameplay	Visible
	Slice of Life	Kill 5 enemies with one single Wind Slash strike Gameplay | Guide	Visible
	Backfire	Kill an enemy with a Tezutsu that you dropped after being hit by that enemy Gameplay | Guide	Hidden
	Assassin’s Focus	Eliminate 7 enemies through one single use of Windstep Gameplay | Guide	Visible
	Boat Rocked	Defeat the Old Ashigaru Gameplay | Guide	Hidden
	Breathtaking	Complete all Landscape Sumi-e in Awaji Gameplay | Walkthrough	Visible