Serpentine

Serpentine
Class	Cool Perk
Attribute	Cool
Tier	Phenom (15)
Levels	1
Requires	Ninjutsu

Serpentine protects V during a crouched sprint. The chance of reducing incoming damage rises sharply while V is moving quietly at speed. It sits in the stealth branch of the Cool tree. It makes the silent approach survivable if it is noticed halfway through.

Effect

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A crouched sprint is the moment a stealth build is committed. V is in the open, moving, and cannot stop without being caught in the middle of the room.

Raising mitigation chance for exactly that window means being spotted mid crossing is no longer fatal. The sprint can be finished rather than abandoned.

How to Unlock Serpentine

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It sits behind the Phenom gate of the Cool tree and is bought from Ninjutsu.

Perk Tree

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Serpentine is bought from Ninjutsu in the Cool tree.

Name	Image	Tier	Effect
Ninjutsu		Phenom (15)	+15% Movement Speed.

Character Builds

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It belongs to a stealth build that crosses open ground at a crouched sprint, which is the moment such a build is most exposed.

Buy it at the Phenom gate from Ninjutsu, with Shinobi Sprint in the same visit. Blind Spot far below turns the same mitigation into slower detection, so this perk makes V harder to see as well as harder to hit.

Notes

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Blind Spot lower in the tree turns mitigation chance into slower detection while crouched, so this perk also makes V harder to see.

Shinobi Sprint makes the same sprint affordable, which is what keeps it going long enough to matter.

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