Gotham Knights: All Nightwing Abilities Guide

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Nightwing's abilities are divided into four trees: Raptor, Acrobat, Pack Leader, and Knighthood. Each tree offers unique passive skills and active abilities that enhance his combat effectiveness, support allies, and improve his traversal.

Raptor Tree

The Raptor tree focuses on increasing Nightwing's overall damage, critical hit chance, and critical damage. It also enhances his Pounce ability.

Icon	Name	Description	AP Cost
	Perfect Evade	Nightwing performs a perfectly-timed evade that generates Momentum and allows for a Perfect Attack follow-up.	1 AP
	Critical Expertise	Increases Nightwing’s Critical damage by 20%.	1 AP
	Trampoline	Nightwing’s Pounce Ability is automatically followed by a high-jump on the enemy. This Ability cannot be used if Nightwing is under a low ceiling.	1 AP
	Assassin’s Mark	Marks an enemy, increasing Nightwing and his allies’ damage to the foe by 10%. Hold + Hold while aiming at an enemy.	2 AP
	Precise Strikes	Increases Nightwing’s chance to land a Critical hit by 10%.	2 AP
	Aerial Bounce	Nightwing bounces off an enemy following an aerial attack to propel himself back into the air. Can be used up to 3 times in succession.	2 AP
	Critical Distance	Hitting an enemy with a Melee Attack from a large distance increases the Critical chance and Critical damage by 15%.	3 AP

Acrobat Tree

The Acrobat tree primarily enhances Nightwing's Momentum gain and evasion capabilities, with some skills boosting aerial attack damage.

Icon	Name	Description	AP Cost
	Aerial Damage +	Increases Nightwing’s aerial damage by 20%.	1 AP
	Extra Momentum Bar	Grants Nightwing an extra Momentum bar.	1 AP
	Momentum Gain +	Increases Nightwing’s Momentum gain by 15%.	1 AP
	Evade Chain	Nightwing chains evades by performing a quick succession of back jumps.	3 AP
	Haly’s Favorite	Completing an Evade Chain knocks down all nearby enemies.	2 AP
	Evade Chain Momentum	Performing an Evade Chain during combat restores a portion of Nightwing’s Momentum.	2 AP
	Mind and Body	Using Momentum Abilities restores a portion of Nightwing’s health.	2 AP

Pack Leader Tree

The Pack Leader tree is ideal for co-op play, offering team-wide buffs to Critical chance, Defense, and Momentum regeneration. It also includes the ability to revive teammates.

Icon	Name	Description	AP Cost
	Family Ties	Increases Nightwing’s defense and resistance by 10%. Working with allies also grants him additional bonuses: Batgirl: Melee damage +15% Red Hood Ranged damage +15% Robin: Stealth damage +15%.	1 AP
	Health Bolstered Defense	When Nightwing’s health is at least +70%, he gets a +5% defense bonus scaling up to +20% at full health.	1 AP
	Momentum Regen	Nightwing’s Momentum regenerates over time. Regeneration stops after filling 1 Momentum segment. Gaining any Momentum activates regeneration again. Working with allies increases the regeneration speed.	1 AP
	Shared Skill	Passive Skills increasing Damage, Critical chance, Defense, Momentum regeneration, and Ultimate cooldown are shared with allies at 50% of their value.	3 AP
	Elemental Smart Darts	Nightwing’s darts inflict Elemental Effect build up on enemies or heal allies over time.	2 AP
	Elemental Smart Darts +	Nightwing’s darts also reduce the enemies’ defense by 10% and increase damage inflicted by allies by 5% for 10 seconds.	2 AP
	Revive Darts	Nightwing’s darts can be used to instantly revive an ally from afar. Maximum 1 per night.	2 AP

Knighthood Tree

The Knighthood tree provides significant all-around improvements to Nightwing's melee, ranged, and Nest abilities. These skills become available after completing specific challenges.

Icon	Name	Description
	Flying Trapeze	Nightwing uses his Flying Trapeze to glide through the air. He can also rebound off of walls to gain altitude and speed. Hold while airborne to use Flying Trapeze.
	Triple Darts	Nightwing shoots 3 darts at once instead of 1.
	Strike Distance +	Nightwing’s Melee Attacks can strike enemies from farther away.
	Guardian	Defeating an enemy reduces Nest Ability cooldown by 15%.
	Combat Expertise	Increases the number of attacks in Nightwing’s Melee combo by 1. The last hit is a knockdown.
	Nest Buffs +	Nest damage is increased by 150%, and the healing effect is increased by 100%.
	Bigger Nest	Increases the size of Nightwing’s Nest.

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