This guide will show you what Snake Skin Armor looks like, what buffs it provides, and how to get it in Ghost of Yotei!
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Cosmetic Appearance Tiers and Dyes
Snake Skin Armor is only obtainable by players who purchase the Deluxe Edition of Ghost of Yotei. It’s just The Snake’s armor and features scale mail on brown and white robes with gold accents.
There are no dyes or upgrade tiers for the Snake Skin Armor, but the deluxe edition comes with an alternate unbroken version of the Snake Skin Mask.
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As pictured, it matches the following weapon Kits:
- The Snake’s Bite (Sword)
- Crushing Hebi (Sword)
- The Gambler’s Spear (Yari)
- Golden Judgment (Odachi)
- Golden Cut (Kusarigama)
- Wildflower Prick (Hankyu)
- Ashen Glow (Yumi)
Armor Effects
Snake Skin Armor improves your performance with Sake Jars. It only has two effects and is not upgradeable.
- Empty Sake jars have a chance of actually being full when picked up.
- Thrown Sake jars explode on impact and create a Poisonous cloud.
It’s a shame this armor doesn’t eliminate the drunken visual or some other tertiary effect.
Obviously, Sucker Punch doesn’t want to make it too good because then you end up with a P2W situation, but the fact that the playstyle is so niche, and the armor it isn’t upgradeable is sufficient.
Relevant Charms
There are 4 Sake-focused Charms that synergize with the Snake Skin Armor.
Charm of Fortune’s Grip
If Disarmed, your weapon lands closer and you earn a Sake jar.
Charm of Drunken Adversary
Enemies killed in a Standoff have a minor chance of carrying lootable Sake.
Charm of Abundant Drink
Increases the amount of Sake you can carry by 1.
Charm of the Blind Drunk
Throwing Sake jars at enemies will briefly Blind them.
I recommend pairing these Charms with the Charm of Lingering Affliction and whatever else you want for the final slot. There are a lot of good options.
How to get Snake Skin Armor
You receive the Snake Skin Armor as part of the Digital Deluxe Edition at the very beginning of the game.
How Outfits work in Ghost of Yotei
In Ghost of Yotei, you can equip a helmet, a mask, armor, shamisen, and saddle as your outfit. Typically, only armor affects your performance in combat.
The other pieces are purely for fashion, with a few exceptions. The rest of your combat performance is determined by your equipped charms, which have no effect on appearance.
Armor usually offers three different buffs in combat. Most sets can be upgraded three times (tier I to tier IV) by employing the services of an Armorer, like Ginji. Upgrading armor costs coin and resources, and doing so improves the strength of the perks it provides.
Upgrades also add more details and elements to the armor, including a adding a mask or helmet at tier III, and can choose which upgrade tier you want Atsu to wear independently of the effects.
For example, if you have Taro’s Armor upgraded to tier IV, you can benefit from tier IV while still make it look like Atsu is wearing the tier II version.
Most outfit pieces are dyeable, allowing you to change their color scheme. Dyes are always tied to a specific outfit piece, so you can’t just dye anything you want. Armors usually come with a helmet and/or mask, and they can use the same dyes.
If a piece isn’t directly affiliated with an armor, it may not be possible to dye it to match. Many different vendors sell dyes and you can exchange them for flowers you pick throughout Ezo. They often sell a mask that matches the dye so you can get something to match the dye you just bought.
You can also change how your weapons look using [Weapon Type] Kits, which are equipped to your weapons like dyes but alter their apperance to a similar extent to how outfits alter Atsu’s appearance.
Ghost of Yotei does not have a transmog system, so Atsu’s appearance will match her combat capabilities. The only things you can change are the worn upgrade tier of the armor, eqiupped hat and/or mask, and their color schemes via dyes.
