Top 5 AC Valhalla Best Builds

Find out the most OP builds with the best picks for skills, armor, and weapons.

By Irfan Ansari February 3, 2023

Players get to control a Norwegian Viking called Eivor in Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla, who can be a male or a female leading protagonist. Regardless of what you do in the game, there is more than one way to play it. That is why we have curated AC Valhalla’s best builds guide and listed our top ten builds to try in the game.

Author’s Note: With more than dozens of hours of experience in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, I feel more than obliged to provide you with a hands-on experience on the topic below.

First and foremost, let’s summarize our Top AC Valhalla Builds and compare them in the table below:

Build	Best For	Armor	Weapons	Skills
The Assassin Build	Best Build For Stealth And Speed	Mentor’s Armor Set	- Raven Clan Shield - Varin’s Axe - Hidden Blade - Smoke Bomb	- Backstab - Advanced Assassination - Explosive Corpse - Chain Assassination - Breakfall - Assassin’s Cantrip
The Stealth Build	Best Overall Build	Raven Clan Armor Set	- Hundtoth - Yngling Seax - Death-Speaker Needler (Bow) - Raider Axe	- Backstab - Advanced Assassination - Chain Assassination - Auto-Loot - Assassin’s Cantrip
The Berserker Build	Best Build For Fast And Aggressive Playstyle	Mentor’s Armor Set	- Housecarl's Axe - Viper Bow - Sepulcher Axe - Death Skald	- Adrenaline Fiend - Adrenaline Upgrade - Light Bow Combo - Bow to Melee Link - Grit - Warrior Takedown
The Poison Build	Best Build For Poison Based Assassination	Thegn Armor Set	- Death-Speaker (Bow) - Doppelhander - Sepulcher Axe - Vordr's Bite	- Miasma - Backstab - Assassin's Cantrip - Perfect Attack - Parry Damage
The Huntsman Ranger Build	Best Build For Long Ranged Combat	Huntsman Armor Set	- Fyrd Axe - Hundtoth Dagger - Hunnish Bow	- Stealth Recon - Charged Shot - Bow to Melee Link - Hunter Bow Combo - Arrow Reinforcement

The Assassin Build

Best Build For Stealth And Speed.

The Assassin Build doesn’t require a lot of stamina and gives more speed. It focuses on stealth, faster movement, and a serious damage impact. To create a perfect assassin build, most of the skills will be unlocked from the yellow skill tree.

Why I Chose This: The stealth capabilities this build provides plus the damage and movement speed make this a perfect choice for assassins.

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Armor

Equipping two armor pieces of the Mentor’s Armor Set will allow you to have an increase in critical hits. However, if you get your hands on the complete five set pieces, you will also get an additional increase in movement speed. This build is more or less incomplete without a full Mentor’s armor set (regardless of the armor rarity). On a positive note, Mentor’s armor is one of the best armor sets in AC Valhalla.

Weapons

Raven Clan Shield: Offers protection against attacks and smoke bombs while putting enemies to sleep.
Hidden Blade: Ideal for stealthy assassinations.
Varin’s Axe: Suitable for combat when stealth is compromised.

Skills

Backstab: Deals damage to the enemy’s defense bar and staggers them when attacking from behind.
Advanced Assassination: Allows assassinating higher-level targets.
Explosive Corpse: Rig a dead body to explode when inspected by enemies.
Chain Assassination: Enables assassinating multiple targets in quick succession.
Breakfall: Reduces damage when jumping from heights.
Assassin’s Cantrip: Use a smoke bomb to escape when detected after a successful assassination.

How To Play

Prioritize stealth and staying out of sight.
Avoid direct confrontations and focus on hidden, surprise attacks.
Use the recommended skills, weapons, and armor to maintain stealth.
When discovered, use Assassin’s Cantrip (smoke bomb) to escape and vanish.
Strike enemies from behind or when they are unaware to maximize damage.

Fast mobility and stealth.
High damage.
Allows flexibility of weapon usage.

For optimal performance requires the complete Mentor’s armor set.
Not suited for direct combat situations.

The Stealth Build

Best Overall Build.

The stealth build is one of AC Valhalla’s best builds as it leaves more room for you to widely explore the areas from the shadows and avoid direct engagements with the enemies. The armor set is hardwearing and comes with its fair share of bonuses. If you have two or more pieces from this armor, you will have plenty of health advantages, but having the full set of armor will add to your damage output when you take serious hits. This build is very well-rounded in all aspects and can easily lead you to higher levels in the game.

Why I Chose This: When equipped with the right armor and gear this is an overall great build. It has stealth, speed, and damage which made it hard not to put on this list.

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Armor

Armor is the primary element used in creating a build. For a perfect stealth build, we recommend picking up the “The Raven Clan” armor set. It is because the yellow-colored gear or Raven favors the stealthy type of pure assassin style of gameplay. Moreover, equipping the complete five armor set pieces allows you to deal with increased critical hit damage, which is pretty useful if you want to be stealthy and attack enemies from the shadows.

So regardless of armor rarity, you will get the following set bonuses if you wear the complete Raven Clan armor set and create a stealthy build.

Best Builds Assassins Creed Valhalla — Raven Clan Set – Stealth Build

Recommended Weapons

After wearing a proper armor set that suits the playstyle of your build, weapons are the second most important factor while creating a build. For a proper assassin-style AC Vallhalla stealth build, I recommend picking up the following weapons in the game.

Hundtoth.
Yngling Seax.
Death-speaker Needler (bow).
Raider Axe.

Skills

Backstab: Increases damage and staggers enemies when attacking from behind.
Advanced Assassination: Allows assassinating higher-level enemies and offers timing-based attacks.
Chain Assassination: Enables taking out multiple targets by throwing an axe after a successful assassination.
Auto-Loot: Automatically collects loot from enemies killed via melee or stealth takedowns.
Assassin’s Cantrip: Use a smoke bomb to vanish when detected.

How To Play

Prioritize stealth and staying hidden.
Avoid direct confrontations and focus on sneak attacks.
Utilize the armor set for increased critical hit damage.
Eliminate as many enemies as possible through sneak attacks.
When discovered, hide and repeat the process or use smoke bombs to escape.
If facing fewer enemies, engage in combat with your weapon

Great damage when equipped with the full Raven clan armor set.
Great for stealth gameplay helping players take out enemies easily from the shadows.

Lacks in direct combat situations.

The Berserker Build

Best Build For Fast And Aggressive Playstyle.

Berserker playstyle — Best builds in AC Valhalla playstyle

Why I Chose This: Though this build requires filling of adrenaline slots I have to say the rewards for it are phenomenal. The resulting high speed and damage for close combat are second to none.

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What sets The Berserker Build apart from other builds is the speed. With this build you can attack your enemies fast with a fair amount of damage, it also excels in one-on-one fights, so fighting a boss is less challenging.

Using The Housecarl’s axe with this build will make your character stronger since it increases attack and critical damage after each hit to up to 10 times and gives 15 attacks. If you get the Viper Bow, it will increase the critical chance to up to 30 and it also increases the damage done with headshots.

Armor

For the Berserker build, use Mentor’s armor set to increase speed and attack after landing critical hits. Equipping all five pieces grants two set bonuses: increased attack damage and attack speed, ideal for fast-paced axe or bow combat.

Recommended Weapons

Housecarl’s Axe: Increases attack and critical damage after each hit, stacking up to 10 times and providing 15 attacks.
Viper Bow: Enhances critical chance (up to 30%) and headshot damage.

Skills

Adrenaline Fiend: Passive damage and attack speed boost when one or more adrenaline slots are filled.
Adrenaline Upgrade: Adds +1 Adrenaline Slot to Eivor.
Light Bow Combo: Increases light bow damage by landing consecutive shots.
Bow to Melee Link: Boosts overall damage when switching between bow and main weapon.
Grit: Allows Eivor to regain the red portion of the health bar by quickly attacking enemies.
Warrior Takedown: Executes a takedown attack to alert enemies and fill adrenaline slots, synergizing with Adrenaline Fiend.

How To Play

Engage in mid to close-range combat, prioritizing direct engagements.
Utilize both bow and melee weapons for versatile combat options.
Maximize adrenaline slots to enhance damage and speed.
Fill the adrenaline bar quickly by using a bow and firing consecutive arrows.
When the adrenaline slot is at 75% or higher, switch to melee and take out enemies aggressively.

Excels in 1v1 situations.
Great speed coupled with high damage.
Filled adrenaline slots allow for even higher damage and speed.

Lacks in long-range combat situations.
Relies on filled adrenaline slots for it to truly shine.

The Poison Build

Best Build For Poison Based Assassination.

The Poison build in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla gives your enemies a slow death and makes the overall process of taking them down easy. This build contains skills from stealth (yellow) and melee (red) trees.

Why I Chose This: The poison effect in this build does wonders in taking down opponents. Poison them first and watch them die a slow death.

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Armor

Using the Thegn Armor set for this build enables more damage but you need to add attack runes to increase damage output. Try adding 2 feeder runes for -3 on weight and 2 feeder runes on thegn’s cloak for another -3, this will help lower the weight which ultimately lowers the stamina consumption.

Weapons

Death-Speaker (bow).
Doppelhander.
Sepulcher Axe.
Vordr’s Bite.

Skills

Miasma.
Backstab.
Assassin’s Cantrip.
Perfect Attack.
Parry Damage.

How To Play

The primary mode of engagement while rocking AC Valhalla poison build should be to first strike an unaware enemy and then engage in combat. It is because the build contains a mix of stealth and melee skills.

The poison effect allows for easy enemy takedowns.
Low stamina usage and high damage when equipped with the correct gear.
Allows the usage of a variety of weapons.

Build works perfectly only on unaware enemies that are to be poisoned first.
Lacks in engaging in combat without the poison effect.

The Huntsman Ranger Build

Best Build For Long Ranged Combat.

Unlike the poison build, the Huntsman Ranger Build allows you to attack from a distance, which is one of the advantages. This build allows you to kill enemies of any level within 1-3 attempts, making this versatile setup one of the best builds. Getting two sets of Huntsman Armor will increase your range damage to 20+ meters, and getting the Raven Rune will enable range damage when you are low on health. Overall, the Huntsman Ranger built-in AC Valhalla focuses on the range and allows you to explore more weapons.

Why I Chose This: The way this build takes down enemies in 1-3 attempts from long range is too good not to put on this list.

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Armor

The Huntsman armor set is the ideal choice for this build. Equipping all five pieces increases ranged damage when targeting enemies from 20 meters or further away. It also enhances Eivor’s attack speed when engaged in combat.

Recommended Weapons

Here is the list of weapons we recommend picking up. You’d mostly rely on the bow we mentioned here but in certain situations, you will also need to rely on a melee weapon.

Fyrd Axe.
Hundtoth Dagger.
Hunnish Bow.

Skills

Since the Huntsman Ranger build is based on a medium-long-range engagement with the enemies, most of the skills we have suggested here are from the Ranged (blue) skill tree.

Stealth Recon: Reveals enemy positions, enabling headshot hit damage.
Charged Shot: Allows firing two charged arrows simultaneously with a Hunter bow.
Bow to Melee Link: Increases damage when switching between bow and melee weapons.
Hunter Bow Combo: Enables faster arrow draw rate after firing, increasing DPS.
Arrow Reinforcement: Prevents arrows from breaking, allowing for reuse.

How To Play

Maintain distance from enemies to take full advantage of your ranged capabilities.
Prioritize headshots for maximum damage.
Utilize the Hunnish Bow and charged shots to eliminate foes efficiently.
When forced into close combat, switch to melee weapons like the Fyrd Axe or Hundtoth Dagger.
Collect and reuse arrows with the Arrow Reinforcement skill.

Excels in long-range combat.
The huntsman armor set provides increased damage and speed.

Not suited for close combat situations.

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla offers players the liberty to approach conflict and engage with enemies however they like. However, builds are the fancy way to play the biking era in style. Well, this wraps up our AC Valhalla best builds guide. Have you ever tried any of the builds we have mentioned? Let us know more of your thoughts in the comments section below.