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How to Level Athletics
In Cyberpunk 2077 you can choose to level up V's many different Attributes including Body, Reflexes, Technical Ability, Intelligence, and Cool, depending on your intended playstyle.
This section of the guide will cover how to level up Athletics, specifically. Athletics is an all-around important skill to level up as it allows you to regenerate health during combat, carry more items, reload your weapons while running, and more.
If you're interested in learning more about leveling in Cyberpunk 2077 overall, check out this guide:
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How to Increase Your Athletics Skill
Athletics is one of the subcategories of the Body Attribute. Body Determines your raw physical power. In addition to allowing you to force open doors, each level of Body (starting from 3) will: add 5 points, add 3 stamina, increase damage with fists and Gorilla Arms by 3, increase damage with melee weapons by 1.5%, decrease movement penalty while grabbing an enemy and wielding an HMG by 6%, increase movement while grappling an enemy and enemy grapple duration by 5 seconds.
Body is broken down into three subcategories of skills which are Athletics, Annihilation, and Street Brawler.
To increase your Athletics skills specifically, open your Character menu and navigate to the Body attribute.
From this submenu, select the Athletics tab at the top to open the skill tree where you can choose the individual perks you'd like to upgrade using your earned Perk Points.
Recommended Athletics Perks to Upgrade
While there are a number of different perks to upgrade within the Athletics skill tree, these are the five we recommend investing in first:
- Regeneration: health slowly regenerates during combat. Admittedly, as long as you’re looting you should have plenty to heal yourself but those who tend to take more damage or just love to hoard items will find this handy.
- Pack Mule: increases carrying capacity by 60. The more you can carry the more you can eventually sell or craft!
- True Grit: increases stamina by 10%. Punching and blocking use this up so if you’re tired of holding back, increase your stamina ASAP.
- Steel and Chrome: Increases melee damage by 10%. It doesn’t hurt to pack a bigger punch!
- Divided Attention: allows you to reload weapons while sprinting, sliding, and vaulting. This is great for running to farther off cover when you run out of ammo.
For other recommended upgrades, check out our guide below: