Dead Island 2: Skill Cards [Explained]

Dead Island 2 mixes up its gameplay with the introduction of the new Skill Cards System. This allows every player to shape and mold their character how they like. Moreover, there are many cards found throughout the game that can be put into different categories, which makes the system a little confusing. Therefore, this guide will help you understand the Skill Deck system and how to use it to your advantage.

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Key Takeaways

• Dead Island 2 replaces the skill tree mechanic in favor of a Skill Deck mechanic.
• The Skill Deck allows players to attach different skill cards to their decks to gain different skills.
• Moreover, the Skill Deck allows players to equip a total of 15 cards that are broken down into four further categories.
• You can attach at one time 5 Abilities cards, that add newer attacks and skills to the player’s build. Moreover, the deck allows you to attach 4 Survivor and 4 Slayer cards, and 2 Numen Cards.
• The Survivor Cards are skills that boost a player’s defensive capabilities, while the Slayer Cards help a player with their offensive stats.
• Numen Cards are some of the rarest cards in the game and can prove to be some of the most powerful.
• Players can find these cards spread throughout the world. These cards can be found during boss fights or casual zombie encounters.
• However, it is essential to remember that some of these cards are Character exclusives. This means that only certain characters can use some cards.
• Moreover, some cards need other cards in your deck to function. As a result, cards such as Hammer Fist are very powerful but require players to have Dash Strike equipped in their deck.
• The characters in Dead Island 2 also come with 2 Skill Cards by default. These cards are known as Innate Skills and are unique to every character.

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Dead Island 2 removes the previously used Skill Tree system in favor of the Skill Deck system. This means players can select the skills they want to keep instead of slowly progressing until they unlock a desired skill. So the skills you can use entirely depend on the cards you find. Moreover, at one time, you can equip a total of 15 cards spread out over four categories.

How To Equip Skill Cards

The card system is not one most players are used to, so there are a few things you need to know about the deck you can build. Firstly, it is important to remember that most of these cards are universal.

As a result, different characters can use the same cards that you were able to find. However, some cards can only be equipped with specific characters as they suit their playstyle.

Moreover, there is more than one card available for every slot in your Skill Deck, but you can only equip one card of one type at a time. Another significant advantage of having a Skill Deck system is that you can change the skill you want to use anytime. Unlike the skill tree, where you unlock newer skills and can only have those, in a Skill Deck you can change the skill anytime.

It is also important to remember that some cards need other cards in the deck to perform. As a result, two cards can function together to boost each other’s stats. Some cards boost the already placed skill card, and if the card is not present in the deck, then the skill card would be useless. Therefore, you need to be careful about what cards work with other cards you have.

Categories In Skill Cards

Skill Cards can be broken down into five main categories. These categories define what these cards are capable of doing.

The following are categories of Skill cards in Dead Island 2:

• Abilities
• Survivor
• Slayer 
• Numen
• Innate

However, it is important to remember that the Innate category of cards is fixed for each character. Each character in the game comes with their own 2 Innate Skill Cards that can not be replaced. Therefore, you can find other four categories of cards in the game and equip them according to your playstyle. Moreover, some categories, such as the Abilities category, is broken down further into other categories.

Abilities

As the name suggests, the Abilities Skill Cards grant you character with certain abilities. The Ability Cards are further broken down into five sub-categories specializing in one special thing. You can find multiple cards for a single sub-category, but you can only equip one for that specific category. For example, the Defense Category has two cards, Dodge or Block, yet you can only equip one at a time.

The following are the sub-categories in the Abilities Skill Cards:

• Defense: These cards add important defensive abilities to block or dodge enemy attacks.
• Jump Kick: These cards allow players to jump while in the air.
• Special Attack: These cards allow players to perform special attacks that deal heavy damage.
• Fury Meter: These cards help players fill up the Fury Meter, unlocking your character’s ultimate ability.
• Fury Attack: These cards grant players an Ultimate Ability for a short time. The Ultimate Attack is great for crowd control or when you are surrounded from every corner. Moreover, any character in the game can use any Fury Attacks and change to different Fury Attacks whenever they want to.

It is also important to remember that all Abilities Skill Cards are universal, and any of the six characters in the game can use any of these cards.

Block (Defense)

The Block Skill Card in Dead Island 2 is a Defense Card, almost the same as the parry system used in most games. Therefore, when you block an incoming enemy attack, your character will regain stamina and stuns the enemy briefly. This opens your enemies up for a counterattack so you can get rid of the threat.

Dodge (Defense)

The Dodge Skill Card is another one of the Defense Cards. This Dodge lets you dodge incoming enemy attacks by swerving left, right, or backward from an enemy. Moreover, this move also leaves your enemies stunned for a short time, allowing you to attack them quickly. 

Drop Kick (Jump Kick)

The Drop Kick Card can be attached to the Abilities Category’s Jump Kick section. This card allows you to perform a drop kick on your enemies, which can send them flying. The Drop Kicks can deal a great amount of damage and can send multiple enemies flying at once. 

Flying Kick (Jump Kick)

As the name suggests, the Flying Kick Skill card allows your character to perform a flying kick. This is another one of the cards that can be attached to the Jump Kick section and can deal great damage. However, you need to be in the air to perform this attack. So when you are in the air press the attack button to perform a jump kick.

War Cry (Special Attack)

The War Cry Skill Card is part of the Special Attack cards in the Abilities Section. This card allows the player to let out a fierce War Cry. As a result, the nearby enemies will be weakened, and the players will receive a boost in their Toughness Stats. Moreover, this skill is great if you play with your friends in Co-op mode.

Ground Pound (Special Attack)

The Ground Pound is the second Special Attack found in Dead Island 2. This card allows the player to punch the ground, which weakens the enemies. Moreover, this ability significantly reduces the Stability stat of the zombies nearby. This special attack is great for dealing with a crowd of zombies.

Dash Strike (Special Attack)

If the other two Special Attack cards are not for you, you also get a third choice of card that can be used. The Dash Strike skill allows the player to dash in the zombies ahead of them, which deals damage and opens up the zombies for further attacks. This skill is great if you are trying to escape a crowd of zombies.

Blood Rush (Fury Meter)

The Blood Rush card allows you to build the fury in the fury meter when you perform counterattacks or slay zombies. Therefore, you can build up Fury faster if you kill many zombies.

Served Cold (Fury Meter)

The Served Cold card is a great one to have if you also have the Dodge card. This card allows you to build up Fury when the enemies hit you or when you block incoming attacks. So you can build fury while taking a bunch of damage.

Surgical Focus (Fury Meter)

The Surgical Focus card allows you to build an insane amount of Fury quickly. This card allows you to build fury whenever you maim a zombie, which means you can fill up your fury meter by breaking zombie limbs. However, this card has a weakness and will cause you to lose fury if you take on damage from the zombies.

Street Brawler (Fury Meter)

The Street Brawler skill card allows players to build up fury by damaging zombies. Players can fill their fury meter by hitting zombies with melee attacks and weapon throws. However, this card is also weak, as the fury will deplete slowly unless a player fills up the meter. This is a great card if you are in the middle of many zombies, as performing combos can help you build up fury.

Overhead Smash (Fury Attack)

The Overhead Smash is a powerful Fury Attack and can be attached to the Fury attack slot of the deck. This is very similar to the Ground Pound. However, the attack is much more powerful. Moreover, the attacks will only last as long as your Fury Meter lasts. This Skill card is a great one to have in your deck, especially if you are stuck in between large zombie crowds.

Spitting Cobra (Fury Attack)

The Spitting Cobra is another one of the Fury Attacks that players can take full advantage of. Fury Attacks take the powerful Zombie attacks and use them against the threat. Therefore, the Spitting Cobra skill is the one you adopt from the Slobber Zombies. The Fury Attack allows players to throw poisonous vomit on incoming zombies and deplete their health.

Scream (Fury Attack)

The Scream is another Fury Attack that you adopt from the Screaming Zombie in the game. Once your Fury Meter is all build-up, players can let out a loud screech that will weaken all the zombies nearby. This allows players to attack or get out of tricky situations. You can change between Fury Attacks anytime if you have the cards available.

Fury (Fury Attack)

The fourth Fury Attack does not have a specific name in the game. However, this is the attack that truly unleashes the build-up of Fury of a player. The Ability allows players to go berserk and destroy zombies with their bare hands. This is sort of the rage ability where the player gets strong and angry for a short period. This makes it great for causing a huge amount of damage in a short period.

Survivor

The Survivor Cards give you Abilities Cards a much-needed buff. There are only four slots for the Survivor Cards, so you can only buff up the stats of four of your abilities. However, it is also important to remember to ensure that your Survivor and Abilities cards work together.

Moreover, some Survivor Cards are not universal, and only specific characters will be able to take advantage of them.

Blockbuster

The Blockbuster Skill Card increases the stats of your Block ability by providing it a buff. This skill allows you to create a small explosion whenever you hit a well times block. The small explosion or sort of a blast drains the stamina of the zombies nearby and stuns them for a little bit. Therefore, players will have an opportunity to counter-attack every time.

Pain Magazine

The Pain Magazine Skill Card buffs your Dodge Card and Block Card. This adds additional stats to your Defense Cards. Whenever a player dodges or blocks incoming attacks, it boosts the recharge rate of the Curveball Throwables. Therefore, it is a great card to have in your so you can quickly recharge your Curveballs.

Pain Threshold

The Pain Threshold Skill card boost your damage stats. This is a great card to use with your Defense Cards as each successful Block and Dodge will increase your damage stats slightly. Therefore, it is a great card to have so you can block and hit the zombies back with more power.

Quake

Requirement: Ground Pound

The Quake Skill card is a great one to have if you are using Ground Pound Card. The Quake boosts your Ground Pound Stats so that you will hit the ground with even more power. Therefore, the Zombies will be sent flying after the successful execution of each Ground Pound.

Rallying Cry 

Requirement: War Cry

The Rallying Cry is a great survivor card to have with you if you are using the War Cry Card.  This skill card lets you use your War Cry to help your nearby allies.

Therefore, whenever a player unleashes the War Cry, it will weaken the zombie and boost the health stats of both the players and your friends nearby. Moreover, it also removes any negative status effects from the players.

Ravenous

The Ravenous Skill Card in Dead Island 2 is one of the few cards that boost your Fury Attack Ability. This card allows you to stack up even more Fury if you kill Zombies in Fury Mode. So, while in Fury Mode, you can build up even more Fury to increase the time of your Fury Attack or use it for next time.

Safe Space

The Safe Space card is always a great one to have in your Deck. As players often use MedKit to heal themselves, this card adds a handy perk. Therefore, whenever players use the medkit, it will cause a small explosion that will stun all the nearby zombies.

This is a great card to have as it takes a couple of seconds while you inject the medkit, and with this card, you will be safe.

Safety First 

This is another of the Survivor Skill Cards that seriously buff your Defense Cards. The Safety First Skill Card allows players to regenerate a small amount of health whenever they hit a well-timed dodge or block. Therefore, the parrying mechanic will allow you to block incoming attacks and regenerate your health.

Serial Killer

Requirement: Dani or Jacob

This is one of the Survivor Cards that will only work with specific characters. The Serial Killer Skill Card only works if you are playing as either Dani or Jacob. This card allows players to increase their damage stats every time they kill a zombie. However, the increase in damage is not all that much unless you build up a combo and significantly increase your damage stats.

Shin Shrapnel

The Shin Shrapnel Skill Card will buff up your slide attacks. This card adds extra strength to your slide attacks, so you can throw zombies a long distance whenever you tackle them while you have this card. Therefore, this card is great as you slide your way out of a large crowd of zombies.

Short Fuse

The Short Fuse is probably one of the best Survivor Cards in your deck. This card works best if you have Fury Card in your deck, as the Short Fuse Card allows players to unleash Fury Attack while the Fury meter is only half full. Therefore, this card will cut your time in half of entering the Fury Mode, which could be essential if you get caught up in a tricky situation.

Steadfast 

Requirement: Carla or Ryan

The Steadfast Card is also a character-specific card. This card will only be attached to the Deck if the player is either Carla or Ryan. As the name suggests, this card pays back the steadfastness of a player. The skill allows players to stack a boost in the Toughness and Force stats when they block multiple attacks one after another.

Surgeon

The Surgeon Card is a Survivor Card that boosts the Maiming mechanic in the game. Therefore, the card allows players to increase their damage stats whenever they Maim zombies. Moreover, as maiming is an important and primarily used feature in the game, this card is great for your deck.

Corpse Bomb

The Corpse Bomb Skill also adds a damage feature to your Fury Attack. This card allows players to cause zombies to explode that are killed in Fury Mode. Moreover, these exploding zombies will damage the zombies in the area of the explosion. Therefore, this card is especially great if you use Fury Mode often.

Flare-Up 

Requirement: Ground Pound

The Flare-Up Skill requires you to have Ground Pound as part of your deck. This is a handy card as it adds features to your Ground Pounds. If you have this card equipped, whenever you execute the Ground Pound, it will set the nearby zombies on fire.

This attack deals a great amount of damage. However, this move will also drain some of the player’s health.

Greased Pig

The Greased Pig is one of the must-have cards in the game. If you are tired of getting constantly grappled by zombies, then this card will solve your problem. The Greased Pig Card allows players to get out of zombie grapples automatically. So whenever a zombie holds you back, this card will help you get out of it without pressing a button.

Hot-Footed

The Hot-Footed Card is great if you have Drop Kick as part of your Ability cards. This card takes the fun and powerful Drop Kick to the next level. Therefore, whenever you hit a zombie with the Drop Kick, this card will allow your kick to set the zombie on fire. However, the Drop Kick will also drain some of the player’s health.

The Limb Reaper

The Limb Reaper Skill card adds features to the Maimimg mechanic. This card enables players to restore their health whenever they maim a zombie. As a result, this makes it an essential card to have in your deck, as a major part of the game. Therefore, you will always be able to restore your health. 

Bob and Weave 

Requirement: Dodge + Amy or Bruno

The Bob and Weave survivor card is another player-exclusive card. This skill card works only if you are playing with Amy and Bruno. However, that is not the only requirement, as this card also requires you to have a Dodge card in your deck. Once you have it equipped, this card will enable you to stack up and increase Agility and Attack Speed if you perform a dodge combo.

Invigorating

The Invigorating skill card takes advantage of the parry mechanic in-game. If you have this card in your deck, every counter-attack you perform will help you regenerate a good amount of health.  Moreover, zombies are open to counter-attack whenever a player performs a dodge or block. Therefore, it is important to have a defense card in your deck.

Lightning Strike

Requirement: Dash Strike

The Lightning Strike survivor card requires you to have Dash Strike in your deck. This card provides an additional buff to the Dash Strike skill in the game. As a result, the card allows you to electrify zombies every time you perform a Dash Strike. However, remember that this ability takes a toll on your health every time the attack is performed.

Thick-Skinned

The Thick-Skinned card gives your stats a direct buff. This card, once equipped, increase the Toughness of the player’s character. However, there is also a downside, as this card trades your Toughness for Resilience and decreases your Resilience. Therefore, this is a great card if your character lacks Toughness stats.

Vivisuction 

Requirement: Dash Strike

The Vivisuction Skill card is another card that buffs up your Ability Card. However, you are required to have Dash Strike in your deck for this Skill to function. The Vivisuction Card enables your dash strikes to regenerate health whenever a player hits a zombie with their Dash Strike.

Warhead

Requirement: Drop Kick + Carla or Ryan

The Warhead is essential if you have the Drop Kick card. Moreover, you must play as Carla or Ryan to use this card. The card provides an additional attack feature to your drop kick. Whenever a player performs a Drop Kick with this card in your deck, the attack creates an explosion that decreases the stamina stat of the zombies in that area.

Wrecking Ball 

Requirement: Jump Kick

The Wrecking Ball Skill Card requires the Jump Kick Card in your deck. The card provides an additional buff to the Jump Kick. Consequently, your Jump Kick will give out critical hits with every attack. This attack allows players to maim more zombies and get rid of them quickly without damaging their weapons.

Slayer 

The Slayer Cards are designed in a way that they buff up your offensive stats. Therefore, these cards will help you increase the damage your attacks cause and boost speed stats. However, most of these cards are player exclusives or require others in your deck to function.

Breakdancer

The Breakdancer Slayer Card allows you to add additional features to the slide attack. Therefore, when a player performs a slide attack, this skill card will increase your character’s Agility and Attack Speed stats. This makes this card a prime choice in your deck if your character is slow.

Carnage

The Carnage skill card requires you to have Fury Attacks in your deck. This card will increase the damage and Force stats of the player’s melee attacks when you unleash your Fury mode. However, every melee attack with extra damage and force also decreases your Fury meter at an increased speed.

Caustic Blight

The Caustic Blight card is another one of the cards that buff the melee attacks in Fury Mode. This card will cause your melee attacks to melt zombies upon impact. However, this card also causes your Fury to decrease faster. Therefore, the more attacks you perform, the shorter will be your Fury mode, but your attacks will cause more damage.

Clear Sightlines

The Clear Sightness is one of the few skill cards that buff up the throwables in Dead Island 2. This card increases the damage stats of your throwable such as Curveballs and general weapons. However, you must land in critical hits to increase the damage stats.

Cull the Weak

The Cull the Weak Slayer card is great in your deck if you are running low on health. This skill card will boost the damage stats of players greatly. As a result, the players can land attacks with notably increased damage.

Deadeye

The Deadeye card is for players who depend on their Curveballs more. This card will decrease the recharge time of the Curveballs every time you hit zombies with them. Moreover, this card also decreases the recharge time at an increasing rate depending on the number of attacks.

Far From Done 

Requirement: Carla or Ryan

The Far From Done card is a Slayer card that needs specific characters to function. This card only works if you are playing as Ryan or Carla. The skill card allows players to stack up their damage stats every time they get hit with an enemy attack. Moreover, you can also block these attacks and increase your damage stats.

Group Therapy 

Requirement: Dani or Jacob

The Group Therapy card only works if you are playing as Dani or Jacob. This card provides a buff to your stamina bar in the game. Therefore, maintaining a zombie-killing streak will bring back your stamina. If you are constantly annoyed by the depleting stamina bar, this is a great card in your deck.

Hack And Dash 

Requirement: Dani or Jacob

The Hack and Dash is another player-exclusive card that works if you are playing as Dani or Jacob. This card encourages players to maintain a killing streak and rewards them with a boost to the speed of the player’s attacks.

Hammer Fist 

Requirement: Dash Strike

The Hammer Fist card requires you to have the Dash Strike card as part of your deck. This card provides a great amount of boost to the Dash Strike. The card buffs up the Force stats of every Dash Strike the player lands. So you can deal zombies a significant amount of damage.

Hunting Season

The Hunting Season Skill Card provides a boost to your melee attacks. The card encourages players to hit zombies with ranged attacks and rewards them with increased damage stats of the melee attacks. This makes this card a prime choice to have in your deck.

Janus Rage

The Janus Rage Skill is a passive skill card that attaches a feature to your Fury meter. The card boosts the player’s Toughness stats when the Fury meter is full. However, the boost is minor when the Fury meter is not full.

Juggernaut 

Requirement: Overhead Smash

The Juggernaut provides a significant buff to your Overhead Smash Fury Attack. This card enables players to gain Fury when they perform this Fury Attack. Moreover, this card also provides the Overhead Smash with more damage and increases the Force of the explosion caused.

No Mercy

The No Mercy Card is another card that provides players with a significant offensive buff. The card gives players a medium bonus for their damage stats when they attack weakened zombies. Therefore, this makes it great if your character has low damage stats.

Pay it Forward

The Pay it Forward skill card is a skill that takes advantage of bad situations. This card increases the damage stats of a player significantly if some attack currently weakens the player. Therefore, the negative status effect can be used towards a player’s advantage.

Pummel

The Pummel Skill Card is a great card to have if your character lacks Force stats. This card gives you a great bonus to your Force stats if you build up an attack combo. However, the card also causes your first strike to be slightly weaker. Therefore, it is recommended to have this card only if you can stack up combos.

Pyro 

Requirement: Overhead Smash 

The Pyro Card is a must-have card in your deck if you currently use Overhead Smash as your Fury Attack. This card causes players to light zombies up on fire when they perform melee attacks in Fury Mode. Moreover, the card also adds this feature to the Overhead Smash, so players can light zombies on fire with this ultimate attack.

Second Wind 

Requirement: Amy or Bruno

The Second Wind Skill card only works if you are playing as Amy or Bruno. This card allows players to receive a boost to their damage stats whenever they hit a zombie while they are sprinting. Therefore, the cards work best with characters with higher agility stats.

Skull Skewer

The Skill Skewer is a very fun Slayer Card in your deck. The card causes players to one-shot zombies with thrown weapons. Therefore, zombies hit in the head with a thrown weapon will explode on impact.

Tools of the Trade

The Tools of the Trade skill card uses one attack type to boost another. This card allows players to use their melee kills to boost the damage stats of ranged weapons. Even though there aren’t many ranged weapons in the game, it’s essential to boost their stats because of their weaker damage.

Unrelenting

The Unrelenting skill card helps you increase the damage stats. The card rewards players with a boost to their damage stats whenever they attack a zombie currently knocked down.

Volatile

The Volatile Skill Card is a great card to have if you rely on your Fury Mode. This card makes you almost a killing machine in Fury Mode, as the melee attacks performed will cause zombies to explode. However, the card also has a downside: it decreases the time players stay in Fury Mode.

Voltaic Scream 

Requirement: Scream

The Voltaic Scream card, as the name suggests, buffs up the Scream attack. Therefore, it is a given that you need the Scream skill card in your deck to make this work. The card causes the Scream attack to electrify zombies that are in the area of your Fury Attack.

Numen

The Numen cards are some of the most powerful cards in the game. However, this also makes them very tricky to acquire, and they also show up in the second half of the game. These powerful cards, nevertheless, have a downside as most of these cards will negatively affect a player’s health or other stats.

Anger Mismanagement

The Anger Mismanagement skill card is a card that takes advantage of the health bar.  If your Fury meter is empty, this card allows you to use your health bar as fuel for your Fury Mode. Moreover, the Fury Mode automatically ends when the health drops to a critical level, so you do not need to worry about dying.

Born Survivor

The Born Survivor skill card is handy when running low on health. This card automatically triggers the Fury Mode when your health is critical. Moreover, during the Fury Mode, the attacks you carry out restore the player’s health.

Corpse Blossom

The Corpse Blossom skill card takes advantage of the status effect mechanic in the game. If you have this card equipped in your deck, it will cause zombies that die from a status effect to explode and spread their status effect to the nearby zombies. Therefore, using the status effect, this is a great card to kill more zombies. 

Glass Cannon

The Glass Cannon is another Numen Skill Card in Dead Island 2 that takes advantage of a bad situation. This card allows players to take advantage of their critical health, as during this time, the critical hits will do a great amount of damage. So while you are running low on health, you can severely damage the zombies. However, this card reduces a player’s toughness stats.

Seismic Stomp

The Seismic Stomp card adds an extra feature to the Skull Stomp mechanic. This card will cause the Skull Stomp to cause an explosion and drain the stamina of the nearby zombies. Moreover, the explosion caused also puts on a Bleed status effect on the zombies in that area.

Innate

The Innate Skills are two skill cards that come by default with every character. These Skill cards are different for every character and help players decide on what character they want to play as. Moreover, these Innate skills take advantage of the character’s stats and can prove extremely useful in the game.

Jacob

Feral:

The Feral is Jacob’s exclusive skill card and comes with him by default. This card allows players to use attack combos to their advantage and get a stackable boost to the player’s damage stats. Therefore, the skill rewards players that play aggressively with Jacob. 

Critical Gains:

The Critical Gains is the second Jacob exclusive skill card. This card uses low stamina to the player’s advantage. Therefore, whenever a player lands a critical hit with low stamina, they will get a boost to their damage stats and regain their stamina.

Bruno

Backstab:

The Backstab is a Bruno exclusive skill card and comes with him by default. Players can boost their damage stats if they attack zombies from behind.

Rapid Reprisal: 

The Rapid Reprisal is the second Bruno exclusive skill card. This card allows players to use the defense mechanics, such as dodge or block, to boost their Agility stats. So players can evade large groups of zombies fairly quickly.

Carla

Mosh Pit: 

The Mosh Pit is a Carla exclusive skill card and comes with her by default. The card allows players to get a minor increase in their damage stats when they are surrounded by multiple zombies. So if you get in a tricky situation, this skill allows you to fight out of it.

Dig Deep: 

The Dig Deep is another Carla exclusive skill card. This card allows players to receive an increase in their toughness stats when the health bar hits the critical level. Therefore, this card allows you to survive longer when in a tricky spot.

Dani

Thunderstruck: 

The Thunderstruck is a Dani-exclusive skill that comes with her by default. This card will let players trigger a strong explosion whenever they land a heavy attack while playing as Dani. 

Bloodlust: 

The Bloodlust is another one of the Dani exclusive Innate Skill cards. This card encourages players to maintain a zombie-killing spree and rewards them by restoring the player’s health.

Ryan 

Retaliation: 

The Retaliation is Ryan’s exclusive Innate Skill Card and comes with him from the start. This card will let players use blocking and dodging to get a good amount of boost to their Force stats.

Seesaw: 

The Seesaw is the second Innate skill card that is exclusive to Ryan. The card allows players to regain their health whenever they knock down a zombie using their attack.

Amy

Relief Pitcher:

The Relief Pitcher is a skill that is exclusive to Amy’s character. The card will let people regain their stamina bar if they can hit zombies with a thrown weapon.

Divide and Conquer: 

The Divide and Conquer skill is the second Amy exclusive skill that comes with her by default. This Innate skill will give players a damage boost when they attack a stranded zombie alone.

Conclusion

The Skill Cards system is a major part of Dead Island 2. This mechanic allows players to have character builds completely unique to their play style. Moreover, players can use multiple cards together to get a buff to a specific form of their attacks. Even the game encourages players to focus on a few skills, as most cards need others to work to their full capability.

The Skill Deck mechanic adds an exciting variety to the game and lets players change them whenever they want to. You can choose from up to four categories of skill cards that affect different aspects of a player’s playstyle. Therefore, the Ability cards are a general addition to newer abilities, while Survivor cards are defensive cards that boost your Ability cards.

Similarly, the Slayer Skill cards significantly boost a player’s offensive stats. Therefore, players can experiment with different skills and choose whatever suits them the best. Once you are satisfied with your character build, you can wreak havoc on the zombies in Dead Island 2.

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