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The importance of companions inAvowedis shown quite early as you’re fighting alongside your crew member in Northreach Fort. The sheer number of enemies you fight at the same time in this game can be easily overwhelming if your companions don’t distract some of them.
Apart from taking enemy aggro, each main companion fulfills a special role, with Yatzli being the last one you unlock in Shatterscarp. She can be one of the most useful companions during combat if you use her correctly.
Yatzli Abilities, Explained
The main ability that differentiates thefour companion from each otheris their special exploration ability. The special abilities of the other three companions can be replaced to an extent with certain collectibles, butYatzli is the only one with an irreplaceable ability.
You’ll start seeing purple-coloredillusions during your exploration and the main story from Shatterscarp, and she’s the only one who can remove these. Apart from that, you can use these abilities with her during combat:
Essence Explosion
Upon activation, Yatzli opens a portal that spawns a giant orb and drops it on the target enemy. Thisdeals damage in a small AoE while also knocking back the enemy.
With upgrades, you canreduce this ability’s cooldown, increase its explosion radius, and let it deal fire accumulation to the enemies.
Minoletta’s Missile Battery
This ability also spawns an orb above the target, but this orb stays in the air andcontinuously launches missiles at the surrounding enemies. With Shock Aspect, you can also make these missiles deal shock accumulation.
Other upgrades canincrease the missile rate of fire and the radiusof the ability.
Arduous Delay of Motion
This is a simple ability thatslows down an enemy for a few seconds. you may turn this ability into a multi-target one with the Exhausting Field upgrade, and also increase its slow effect while applying frost with other upgrades.
Blast
This passive lets Yatzli’sattacks burst into a small areaafter hitting the first enemy. With Explosive Blast, you can make this AoE damage remove enemy blocks, break walls, and deal increased damage to frozen enemies.
With upgrades, this ability can alsoinflict a random debuff on the enemyand deal increased stun.
Yatzli Upgrade Priority
Getting companion points can be very rare in Avowed, andyou can spend up to 15 on them for each companion. Every time you get a companion ability point, you may spend one on every companion, and here’s what you should upgrade on Yatzli:
1
Essence Explosion (already unlocked)
2
3
4
Energy Sap
When Should You Use Yatzli?
Once you get Yatzli in Shatterscarp, she becomes an essential member of your party due to the lack of means to break illusions. However, this isn’t a bad thing sinceshe can essentially replace Marius as your DPS party member. Yatzli can deal high damage to both single-target and multi-target enemies.
you may also use both Marius and Yatzli at the same time sinceshe can deal increased stun to the enemies.
Marius can instantlydefeat high-stun enemies with one of his abilities, making this a good synergy.
After getting Yatzli, you’d essentially want to keep her in the party at all times, but she works well with all three other companions so you canchoose anyone for the second slotbased on your build and play style.
