How to Use Skill Points in Resident Evil 6

There's no "right" skill set to use, but in this section, you'll find a few skill ideas for different styles of play. Feel free to make your own!

1. 1
   Invest in long-range damage if you favor rifles. A player that likes to use the sniper rifle and other long-range weapons should choose skills that maximize the ability to deal pinpoint damage at a great distance. With the right skills, you'll be able to deal with threats before they get anywhere near you.

   • Recommended Skills: ^[5]
   • Firearm Level 3 (+50% damage to guns)
   • Eagle Eye (extra zoom for sniper rifles)
   • Rifle Ammo Pickup Increase (more likely to find rifle ammo)
2. 2
   Choose defensive skills if you want to be a "tank." If you find yourself dying often or you want to be able to take hits for an inexperienced partner, try a beefy "tank" build. These skills will toughen you up so that you can take a beating and keep on dishing out damage.

   • Recommended Skills: ^[6]
   • Defense Level 3 (-50% damage from all enemies)
   • Field Medic Level 2 (your partner gives you several health tablets when you get revived)
   • Breakout (makes it easier to get away from enemies that grab you(
3. 3
   Go for stamina and pure damage if you're a melee player. If you like to save ammo by getting up close and using powerful melee attacks, pick skills that increase your melee damage. You'll also want to improve your stamina bar so that you can use these melee attacks as much as possible. Defensive skills can help as well — you'll be getting hit more often in close-quarters combat.

   • Recommended Skills: ^[7]
   • Melee Level 3 (+50% damage to melee attacks)
   • Combat Gauge Boost Level 2 (five extra blocks for stamina bar)
   • Defense Level 3
4. 4
   Pick skills for close-up damage if you prefer shotguns. Shotguns are great for their high damage and their ability to hit multiple enemies at once. Max out shotgun damage and shorten your long reload times to make the most of these powerful weapons.

   • Recommended Skills: ^[8]
   • Firearm Level 3
   • Quick Reload (makes you reload faster)
   • Shotgun Shell Pickup Increase (more likely to find shotgun ammo)
5. 5
   Pick support skills to be a team player. Looking to make an effective, two-person killing machine? Playing with a partner who needs a little extra help? Supportive skills can make your and your partner a more effective team.

   • Recommended Skills: (Have your partner choose these — you can pick whatever build you want)
   • Team-Up (your partner's attacks do more damage when you are near each other)
   • Field Medic Level 2
   • Recovery Level 2 (recover from "dying" status faster)
6. 6
   Go for a high-risk, high-reward play style if you dare. Looking to put a fun, challenging twist on your game? Pick skills that make you deal lots of damage, but leave you vulnerable if you make a mistake. Item-increasing skills can give you an added incentive to play the odds!

   • Shooting Wild (removes the targeting reticule but increases your damage)
   • Last Shot (final bullet in each clip will do extra damage)
   • Item Drop Increase (enemies you kill will drop items more often)
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You can get extra SP almost anywhere in the game, but this section has a few examples of areas in the campaign where it's especially easy to earn lots of SP in a short time. Minor spoilers ahead.

1. 1
   Try Helena's Chapter 3. In this chapter, you can find 2,000 SP in a coffin near where you talk about Simmons and Ada. There are also 5,000 SP in a coffin near the spike trap. Kill the zombies you encounter for extra SP. When you fall into the next area after pulling the levers, let the game save, then quit the level and repeat as needed.

   • For extra SP, try shooting the zombies in the head to make them Bloodshots, which are worth more. ^[9]
2. 2
   Try Chris's chapters 2-3 and 2-4. These chapters have lots of enemies that drop high amounts of SP. Each Ogroman enemy (the giant-like creatures with red organs on their backs) drops 4,000 SP. ^[10] There are two Ogroman enemies in 2-3 — avoid using the third AA gun to be able to get the SP from the second Ogroman. In 2-4, there are several Napad enemies (the ones with hard armor shells you need to break) worth 1,500 SP each and several Strelat enemies (the lizards that spit spines at you) worth 1,000 SP each.

   • Try using the grenade launcher to kill all the Napads in the foyer to get about 10,000 in a very short time. ^[11]
3. 3
   Try Leon's Chapter 4. In this chapter, you're in a race against Chris. If you're quick, you can rack up tons of SP in a short amount of time. Beating Chris to the elevator nets you 2,000 SP. After, when you're hacking the locks, use the shotgun to take down the drones effectively. If you do well, you'll beat Chris and win 14,000 SP. After the Simmons cutscene, the game will save and you can repeat this process for more SP. ^[12]
4. 4
   Try Ada's Chapter 2. A good deal of SP is scattered through the entire chapter. Napads are worth 1,500 SP each, while Whoppers (the enormous fat zombies) are worth 2,500 each and Shriekers (the zombies with the large red growth on their chests) are worth 1,000 each. There are also lots of SP drops distributed in the various boxes, including a 4,000 SP drop in the treasure chest after the first Napad. ^[13]

   • Level 2-3 is especially lucrative — killing the enemies in the underground lab can earn you about 25,000 SP in less than ten minutes. ^[14]
5. 5
   Try running through Jake's Chapter 4 as quick as possible. Jake has one of the easiest opportunities to farm SP in the entire game. The shopping district part of Chapter 4 has no enemies and two boxes containing a total of 7,000 SP. This section can be run through very quickly, so if you're willing to repeat it over and over again, you can earn tons of SP in a short time. ^[15]
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