How to Find and Defeat the Kabukimono in Assassin’s Creed Shadows

The Kabukimono are a group of ronin causing trouble in Assassin’s Creed Shadows. One extended sidequest requires you to track them all down across Settsu and take them out.

You can find the initial quest at the Nishinomiya Shrine, west of Amagasaki. You’ll find one of the priests standing at the entrance, trying to calm down a child. He explains that the Kabukimono are a group of ronin who are causing trouble across the region, and he would like something to be done about them.

He gives you clues to the locations of most of them, and they can be dealt with in any order. However, this is the order I recommend, going from easiest to hardest.

How to Find and Defeat the Ghost General Kabukimono in Assassin’s Creed Shadows

The easiest of the Kabukimono in Assassin’s Creed Shadows. The Ghost General can be found at the port in Sakai, traveling along the piers and interacting with merchants. Simply head to the port and you can overhear locals talking about his habit of stealing food.

Fortunately, his open public presence and limited bodyguards make him easy to take out. To make things easier, he also loves standing near the water, usually while his bodyguard walks elsewhere. Wait for him to held along a pier and swim out. If you can’t get him from the water, climb out behind him and take him out. You will need to fight him to remove the last part of his health bar, but once he’s gone, escape into the ocean.

How to Find and Defeat the Grave Dancer

Another relatively easy member of the Kabukimono. The Grave Dancer hangs out at the Sumiyoshi Shrine southeast of Osaka. It’s another public location and, like the Ghost General, only has one bodyguard. He also likes to walk near tall buildings, perfect for pouncing on him from above.

Of course, that is the strategy. Climb onto one of the shrine’s buildings, move above him and perform an assassination. You won’t kill him outright but this does remove a lot of his health. With a big chunk of his health bar removed and only one assistant, this is a relatively easy fight.

How to Find and Defeat Ember

The clues for Ember are slightly misleading, as they state he is southwest of Osaka Castle. This just means he’s in Osaka, inside a block on the west side, near the southern bridge to Kojo Ruins. This block is a guarded area, so you’ll be attacked on sight when you enter.

However, there is an extremely simple solution to this. There are two straw awnings you can climb onto – one to the east and one to the south. Ember and his guards are also standing next to a pile of explosive urns. Simply throw a kunai at this pile to cause significant damage. You may need to hop in to finish him off, but the explosion will do most of the work for you.

How to Find and Defeat Big Sueki

Big Sueki is the first of the Kabukimono who might prove a challenge. He can be found in a private garden in Muko Post Town, north of Amagasaki. There’s a small building with an alley into a garden next to it. Big Sueki and his cohorts are hanging out in this garden, but with so many of them, you shouldn’t really enter through the alley.

Instead, head to the building next door and head into the area behind it. There’s a gap in the fence that takes you behind the foliage in the garden and provides a helpful patch of grass to hide in. Sneak around and perform a sneak attack on Sueki. You won’t take him out immediately, so you’ll be forced into a fight with the whole crew. However, a smoke bomb should help cause a distraction. Focus on Sueki, then flee as soon as he’s dealt with.

How to Find and Defeat Chief Cuckoo

Chief Cuckoo is the hardest member of the Kabukimono to assassinate in Assassin’s Creed Shadows. This is because he’s located in the Katano Oil Trading area southwest of Katano Castle (or south of Katano’s Ornament Vendor). This is a heavily guarded area, and his patrols are usually through areas with a high density of guards.

If you’ve got Yasuke, it may be easier to charge in with him and make use of his higher defence, but if you want to be stealthy with Naoe, there are some options available to you. Upgrading your kunai skills to do more damage will help in softening him up from a distance, and smoke bombs can help cause a distraction. If there’s too much pressure, it may be worth fleeing temporarily and coming back to finish him off when they’ve lost sight of you.

How to Find and Defeat the Final Three Kabukimono in Assassin’s Creed Shadows

The final three slots on the Kabukimono quest can now be opened up with all the other targets defeated. You’ll need to head back to the Nishinomiya Shrine and leave a message to draw out the remaining trio. You get the option to hunt them individually or gather them in one place. I would recommend the latter option, mainly because it’s the quickest and easiest.

However, you will need to wait a little while, as the trio are level 23, and located in Harima, which is likely to be difficult to get through at the level the initial targets become available. When you’re an appropriate level, head into Harima west from Amagasaki. If you follow the coastal road towards the Kakogawa Estuary then head north before crossing to the Estuary island. This road leads to the Takagi Otsuka Fort. The Kabukimono camp is southeast of this fort.

To take out your targets, you’ll need to get into the camp. The east side has a rock formation that you can climb that allows you to jump the fence onto the roof of a building. Drop down between this building and the fence and sneak around behind the opposite building, placing it between you the targets. From here, you can peek around the corner to see them, but this also gives the perfect angle to throw a kunai at an explosive urn near your targets. This is the ideal way to weaken them and make the fight easier.

In the chaos, you have the ability to throw a couple more tools as they start moving towards you, and a smoke bomb will confuse them and allow you to do more damage quietly. Despite the numbers, this surprisingly isn’t as difficult as it first seems. Once they’re all down, return to the priest who gave you the quest to receive your rewards.

Assassin’s Creed Shadows is out now for PS5, PC and Xbox Series X/S.

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