Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 Guide | Best Strength Perks

Here are the best Strength perks to get in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2.

Game Guide by Arne on Mar 08, 2025

Strength is the primary trait you’ll be using for combat in Kingdom Come: Deliverance II. It improves your weapon handling and damage output and also helps with armor. Strength also helps you carry things more, which is always a boon. Overall, Strength helps you fight better and you’ll probably rely on this a lot during combat.

Increasing Strength isn’t the easiest, and the best way of getting it is through combat. To this end, you will probably want to ration your Strength Perks. There are a lot of great perks, and a lot of them are useful. That being said, some are worth more than others. This guide will go over the best Strength Perks to get.

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Best Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Strength Perks

Hard-Working Lad

You will be able to get this relatively early on. It is one of those perks that slightly boosts your carrying capacity by 8 pounds. However, it mainly helps you while carrying sacks and dead bodies. It will no longer cost you extra stamina when carrying them. Their weight will also count as half.

The utility of this is immense; there are quite a few main story missions where you need to lug around sacks, as well as somewhere you’ll need to quickly carry bodies and hide them. Both just save time and help out with those segments. The extra carrying capacity early on is also very useful as you’ll not get any more ways to permanently increase carrying capacity.

Strong as a Bull

Hands down the most useful Strength Perk. It is also very simple; it increases your carrying capacity by 20 pounds. The reason this is the most useful Strength Perk is because you’ll always face issues with carrying capacity. With all the equipment, weapons, and other things you’ll carry, you will be starved of any actual carrying capacity.

It is also useful when transporting goods and when you’re looting dead enemies. This lets you reliably get more out of them and saves lots of slow walks to the nearest town. This one unlocks at level 12,

Tight Grip

Another extremely useful perk for those stealth segments. This is very, and really, only useful when you do those parts. Tight Grip improves your odds of knocking someone out or killing them stealthily, and the higher your Srength is, the better. Now, this mainly comes into play when you want to avoid those annoying, uncounterable failures during stealth kills/knockout. This saves you a lot of time with save-scumming and generally helps you in any stealth scenarios.

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Pack Mule

Pack Mule is in a strange place. It gives you 12 pounds of carrying capacity, yet it isn’t as appealing as Strong as a Bull or Working Lad. The reason being that both the other two perks either offer something very useful in return, which is improving your sack carrying speed, or just drastically improving your carrying capacity. Despite this, if you have a spare point, you can always get Pack Mule, as more carrying capacity never hurts anyone.

Strong Arm

One of the higher-level perks, Strong Arm, will let you slowly recover stamina while you stay in a fully charged attack. The benefit of this is immense and twofold; for one, you will be able to hold onto your charged attacks for longer, especially if you have a shield equipped with your heavy weapon.

It also helps you in defending yourself, as you’ll generally have enough stamina to shrug off a blow. Now, it isn’t the absolute most useful one, as by now, you probably should have a lot of stamina regardless.

Heracles

Another very useful perk that has a stacking buff. You get +! Charisma for every 5 points of Strength you have. This lets you get up to +6 in Charisma when at Strength Level 30. Getting to that point will probably take a while, so instead, you might be looking towards having +3 at the time you get this perk and +4 for a good chunk of the game.

Regardless of the specific increase, that bonus is immense, and it basically makes this the best Charisma-related perk you can get. The boost to speech is invaluable, and there are a ton of ways this helps, from easier speech checks to haggling to just better values when trading.

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Useful Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Perks

Now, certain perks are useful, but not the best, but they are still useful. For example, one of the perks might increase a specific damage type, or it only comes into play with certain weapons. Since Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 always presents you with a lot of options and flexibility, you might not always need those perks.

On the other hand, those perks will be very useful when using the specific equipment. Here are the useful perks that come into play only sometimes.

Vanguard

This one decreases the stamina cost of Shield Blocks, bumping it down by 30%. That is of extreme value when you pair it with heavy weapons. Since most of the time, you will run a shield with heavy weapons, you’ll definitely need the stamina you save up from this since Heavy Weapons will absolutely eat up your stamina.

Grand Slam & Grand Slam II

A good pairing with that is the perk Grand Slam. This one increases the Blunt Damage of all melee weapons by 5%. At first, the value might not feel like a lot, but in practice, the extra blunt damage does wonders when facing an armored opponent. It also helps with dealing with opponents with shields and, in general, will allow you to inflict damage to limbs in a much better manner.

Its upgraded version basically bumps the total bonus to 10%, which, again, does wonders to help with armored opponents. And since you will basically always be facing armored opponents during the main story quests, this perk will help a lot if you run a mace or a hammer.

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That basically covers all the useful and must-have perks from the Strength stat. Now, here’s the thing, almost all the perks in the Strength Category are included here, but there’s a reason for it. Almost all the perks there are great. Certain perks, like Wrestler and Thrasher, aren’t the best simply because you can afford to skip them in favor of the better perks. For example, at level 14, with the choice between Grand Slam and Thrasher, it is almost always more worth it to go for Grand Slam.

Wrestler, on the other hand, might be favorable since you can opt to ignore Pack Mule, but you will probably need the early carrying capacity, especially if you are lugging around armor. This only leaves Train Hard, Fight Easy! and its upgrades. The reason those perks aren’t favored is because the damage boost from having the artificial requirement lowering is somewhat negligible.

It is also worth noting that you shouldn’t really have trouble finding an effective weapon at your Strength Level. Furthermore, the first Train Hard, Fight Easy! Perk only reduces the requirement by 2, which isn’t enough for the best weapons, and the weapons that it unlocks aren’t really worth the cost. Hard-Working Lad is much more useful here overall.

That basically covers all the perks in the Strength Category and gives an overview of the best ones, as well as a small look into the ones you should avoid and why you should avoid them.

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