ULTIMATE Ninja Assassin (Shadow Monk) Build For Baldur's Gate 3

Shadow Monk, on its own, can be underwhelming, but in this Ninja Assassin Build for Baldur's Gate 3, we combine the best of shadow monk with the strengths of Rogue to make for a true alpha strike character!

0:00 Intro & TL;DW
2:00 Character Creation
7:41 Ability Points
9:09 Ninja Early Level Build
10:26 Best Ninja Feats
12:35 Ninja Endgame Build
17:30 Ninja & Shadow Monk Abilities
20:21 Itemization
22:51 Best Ninja Weapons
26:14 Ninja Armor & Gear
34:14 Gameplay Showcase

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System Specs:
Motherboard: MSI MPG z690
Processor: Intel i9-12900FK
Graphics Card: EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 8GB FTW Gaming ACX
Memory: Corsair Dominator LED 32GB DDR4-3600 Memory

#bg3 #guide #baldursgate3 #beginners

[italianspartacus]

HUGE shout out to Dronizos, a member of our Discord Community, who brought this build up during our community build stream! It's a TON OF FUN!

[bonedrone]

I love that you emphasize roleplaying over minmaxing unlike most other build guide channels.

[nocternaltofudelivery]

For anyone trying this build out: Its important to know that while in combat, if you are unable to shadow step or go invisible despite being in an obscured position, you can hit the group or ungroup key to refresh the game's hot bar. Doing this re-checks your positioning without blowing actions or bonus actions. Great build btw. Monk is my favorite class and I've been racking my brain on how to get this sub-par sub-class to do decent damage. Also, if you join a certain murder cult, The Bhaalist armor does what the gloves do but way better and if you are already using the covert cowl, then might as well.

[jessehardenbrook]

Dude... I'm watching this whole video but I just had to pause to say I REALLY appreciate the fact that you just did a TL;DW. Such a great idea and so well done.

[jtirri]

Since Patch 6 made all dialogue center your Tav/Durge if they are visible to the NPC and anywhere nearby, getting the Hag Hair is now pretty challenging for a low CHA build, especially on Honor Mode. My kids solved it right away with their monk Tav: After getting the Hag to low HP, they used the insane monk speed to bolt into the Hag's "Office" area, and then closed the door behind them. Then, as usual, parked their Bard closest to the Hag. It actually worked, and the Bard got picked to to the talking... and they got the Hair!

[DarkNesz]

I really feel like Duergar are slept on in general a free enlarge per long rest with no concentration, and free invisibility EVERY BATTLE.

[KingJJ]

Let's keep pushing out the BG3 content

[GypsyBladeFB]

My main playthrough was a Duergar Shadow Monk to 8 and Rogue Assassin to 4, my main weapon being the "Knife of the Undermountain King." It really fit the whole theme of an assassin that's a deep dwarf.

[celestialowl]

I appreciate that you cover builds that introduce unique flavor rather than just the strontest meta builds. I wouldn't mind seeing you cover a battle alchemist. My personal pick has been opening with 3 levels of transmutation wizard for transmutation and circle of daggers for popping potions, level 4 rogue for expertise in medicine and slight of hand, then either 4-6 rogue to grab arcane trickster or round off with wizard. Grabbing arcane trickster sounds unusual, but the hand can drink potions from your inventory netting you a companion that can, without breaking its stealth, haste itself, set its stength to 21, force surprise rounds, and double chuck potions for team mates all with the traditional mage hand benefits and it actually benefits from things like aid after long rests since it lasts forever, all while boosting your ESL and relying on intelligence like wizard, but I prefer taking utility spells here. These two classes benefit eachother in this way, wizard benefiting from the slight of hand for materials and scrolls and the medicine expertise + prof for the alchemy checks, and your hand benefits from your potions. Surprisingly fun if you're into that gameplay, and all your potions end up benefiting from the act 1 healing gear for blade wards (paired with transmutation stone lets you grant resistence to 4 types in one turn alongside your rogues bonus actions) and blesses mainly. I usually open either with halfling for the alchemy and slight of hand 1 rerolls, or as gale for the act 1 telekinesis as early as berore the grove fight

[EpicRenegade]

The gith in the creche also sells a finesse longsword that also has a cool ability, Larethian's Wrath love the vids!

[alvinbgyt]

6 shadow monk, 3 fighter champion, 3 rogue assassin

[RobertBarry]

You talk about Savage Attacker, but don’t go into why it is good for this particular build. savage attacker works on all dice, so it would re-roll sneak attack and extra dice rolled due to Crits. At level 5 you get 3 SA dice, plus the weapon die which will average approx 4 points of extra damage in a single attack doubling to 8 on a critical. The problem with Dual wielder in this build is it requires your bonus action and in this build you are doing shadow stuff with your bonus action. TLDR; Your item choices are designed to increase crits, which doubles the dice and gets more value out of Savage Attacker.

[Im_Still_LightSpeedLayne]

Take orc (free savage attacker), 8 monk, 4 rogue (for third feat, which I find much more important then the 5th lvl in rogue. Alert, asi, res DEX or dice or duel wield or another asi for WIS.

[saray]

Coming in kinda late to this post, but I am currently on my favorite BG3 playthrough yet as a shadow monk/ rogue Duergar. So much fun! I was looking for methods for maximizing use of the shadow monk features and found them with your video. Thanks!

[arokh]

I feel, lore wise, this would be a good solo build, at the very least in Balanced. I'm going to try this build. For my lore, I'm thinking of rolling a Svirfneblin, aka Deep Gnome, that was an urchin, and taken in by a wise master to learn how to strike, subtly, at their Drow overlords, by perhaps sabotaging items, stealing food, etc.

[supervegito]

You're guides in general are really fun to watch, they give me ideas to work off of when i get sucked back into this game.

[rusmisel]

Another great build excited to try it out. Love that you highlight things that aren't just the usual op picks that people already know about.

[RandomGuy]

This was my first multiplayer build days after release.
My little brother (sorcerer) got so mad every time I filled the screen with darkness, making him unable to target anything. Great fun :D

[markittystuff]

Last Epoch seems good but I'm still fairly new and haven't got it so I haven't checked out your content for that but damn if I'm happy you got content for both. This channel has done wonders for my start to ARPG's and I love it.

[Stekman]

Found your channel just recently, as I was looking into some random stuff. Love the content! Earned the sub because you put having fun and playing the game ahead of minmax builds. Quality stuff, keep it up