How to Recruit All the Allies in Assassin’s Creed Shadows

In Assassin’s Creed Shadows, Ubisoft introduces a new system wherein you can build up your hideout and hire allies that can do various things for you around the compound or help you out in combat encounters out in the world. In this guide, we will show you how to recruit all of the recruitable ones that can help you in a fight.

How to Recruit All the Allies in Assassin’s Creed Shadows

Simply put, you just need to continue playing through the story. Most of these characters are people you meet as you play through the main questline, though some will not be recruitable until after your initial introduction to them.

Take note that you might also need to make specific choices for some of these characters to actually join you. We will point out what you have to do with each entry below:

• Yaya – First off, you can recruit Yaya after one of the earlier main missions of the game. This will open up a side quest called The Stray Dogs, in which you can recruit her to your cause. Make sure to choose the options revolving around forgiveness so that she will consider joining you.
• Gennojo – Gennojo is a potential romantic interest of Naoe, though you are not required to engage in it if you want him to join your cause. Be careful as you approach the end of his questline, as you have to calm him down rather than just doing nothing. Make sure to pick the obviously favorable responses too.
• Ibuki – He becomes available once you can play as Yasuke, and you have to be that character in order to recruit Ibuki. He is a potential romantic interest of Yasuke if you are not playing Canon Mode, though it is not required to recruit him. Make sure to say “I have changed” in one of the quests, and keep a certain NPC alive during a later moment.
• Katsuhime – Another character that you can recruit as you hunt down the Shinbakufu, Naoe can have her join the cause by simply completing related questlines and asking her to come along. Naoe can romance her as well, though this is not required to recruit her.
• Oni-yuri – In order to have Oni-yuri join the cause, all you need to do is complete all of the quests related to her. After all of that, you can simply ask her to join you. To do any of this, you must speak with her at Sotomo Gate in the Wakasa region.
• Yagoro – Finally, this man can be found within the Harima region. In order to recruit him, you will first need to go through the quest called A Blade in the Dark, which you can start after slaying all of the Shinbakufu. Needless to say, this one will take a while if you just started.

And that is pretty much everything you need to know in order to find and potentially recruit all of the allies currently in the game. Do note that this does not include the blacksmith, as you get him as a part of the story with very little effort anyway, and he is essentially the first ally that you “recruit” if you do not count the child who just tags along.

To help you with some of these quests, including the blacksmith recruitment task if you somehow still have not gotten him, check out our guide on how scouts work in Assassin’s Creed Shadows for more information. These will help you pinpoint the exact location of certain objectives during quests.