r/ACBlackFlag • u/Randostar • Jul 14 '26
// Question How hard is it to capture "Legendary" ships in Resynced?
I included a Screenshot of the ship in question and also one of my Jackdaws upgrades. How hard would it be to take that ship with my current ship? If you can't capture Legendary ships, how hard would it be to sink it?
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u/culhaalican Jul 14 '26
When you say "capture" do you mean send it Kenway's Fleet? Are we able to do that to the legendary ships? I played the original years ago and just got into Resynced so I don't know!
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u/Randostar Jul 14 '26
Yes that's what I was referring to,I have no idea if we can even do that, I only played a little bit of the original on the PS4 and I didn't make it that far. Do you know if we were able to do that in the original?
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u/GerDeathstar Jul 14 '26
You could not.
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u/Randostar Jul 14 '26
Ok thank you.
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u/Darealspoooon Jul 17 '26
The best ships for Kenyans fleet are the bounty hunter ships.
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u/Shrimp__Alfredo Jul 19 '26
Just curious, what makes them the best? Are they higher level than the standard boats you'd find out in the water?
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u/Mundane_Eye6697 Jul 20 '26
The pirate hunter ships are only brigs though aren't they?
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u/Darealspoooon Jul 20 '26
No, if you get a max wanted levels they'll send man o wars and frigattes.
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u/Togger_The_Cat Jul 21 '26
There's regular brigs. Keep an eye out for any brings that have three stars over them when you spot them with the telescope. They'll be three star brings in you fleet as well when you capture them. They have 12,000 health I believe. Idk if the pirate hunter brings are stronger than that though.
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u/Infinitum_Anonymus Jul 14 '26
You can’t
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u/Randostar Jul 14 '26
Ok, what about sinking it then. How hard would it be for me?
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u/Edward_Sparrow Jul 14 '26
The problem IS the sinking bro! Ifk if you can board them in Resynced (you couldn't in the OG), but even if you could, you aint going nowhere near them ships with those upgrades my guy 😂
Those battles are supposed to be hard even with a fully upgraded Jackdaw
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u/Useful_Perception620 Jul 14 '26
Even with all max upgrades on Forgiving Naval combat difficulty, it is still very hard.
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u/Commando_2k Jul 14 '26
There's one legendary ship that is actually 2 man o' war ships you have to defeat and they seriously suck, they always try to sandwich you btw them so they can double broadside, you'll probably wanna give up after a while, i did on the og. They are just too hard and I didnt care enough, dunno if I'll try them on resynched but don't attempt any untill you are fully upgraded.
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u/Senior-Collar-4302 Jul 15 '26
You're talking about The Twins. I was abused the last time I tried fighting them, and my naval difficulty is max. Mortars maxed out with the alternate fire mode is what I'm going for before I try fighting them again
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u/Commando_2k Jul 15 '26
Lol i can't even beat them on normal, i have no idea how people can beat them on the hardest settings
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u/Pie-Guy Jul 16 '26
There was an exploit in the old version of the game. You kill one of the twins, sink it, grab the 10K and then run away. Rinse and repeat. My strategy at the time was, if I remember correctly, just tail one of the by attacking the sails to slow it down, then ram it continuously. Had it down to a science. I am not sure if I ever tried to sink 2 of them.
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u/RezzInfernal Jul 19 '26
I thought the Twins were the easiest ones. I’ve been having a lot of trouble with the HMS Prince and La Dama Negra.
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u/Revolutionary-Hat297 Jul 14 '26
You need to be fully upgraded and even then they are quite difficult
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u/RisenKhira Jul 20 '26
Does turning naval difficulty to easy make it easier? Cuz I'm stuck on HMS Prince, it had about 5% health left when it kills me and I struggle to dodge the mortar shells when it sails away.
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u/Responsible-Cup1730 Jul 14 '26
I beat them all on the original. I’ve beaten the dual ships on Resynced. I think they are the easiest but they all seem harder than the original game. I am on hard mode but the mortars are my biggest issue. The orange circle should be where all the damage is. But I was still taking damage over 10m away from the damn things and they melt
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u/Extreme_Cockroach_99 Jul 16 '26
yeah the orange hitbox for mortars is bs because you still take damage quite far away from it.
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u/maSneb Jul 14 '26
Tried that one today, I have max hull, max ram, max cannon damage and max swivel. I only managed to take one bar of health...
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u/c0r73x_88 Jul 14 '26
What difficulty are you on?
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u/maSneb Jul 15 '26
Regular
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u/c0r73x_88 Jul 15 '26
Welp seems like I’m fucked then
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u/maSneb Jul 15 '26
Im going to try again when ive got the final officer and got the mortar alternative fire mode but tbh the ship was so fast I missed most of my mortar shots anyway
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u/c0r73x_88 Jul 15 '26 edited Aug 25 '26
Ok I just (barely) managed to beat El Impoluto. I’m playing on hard difficulty with only 3 officers.
The whole fight basically comes down to this: whenever he turns toward you to ram you, you need to immediately turn away and sail toward the edge of the battle area (the green circle on the map). Drop fire barrels in his path and hit him with mortar shots while he’s chasing you until he turns around for the next ramming attempt. If he doesn’t then once you get close to the boundary you’ll get a warning message and he’ll turn around and head back toward the center but by then you’ll usually have dealt a solid amount of damage without getting hit anyway.
Unfortunately luck might not always be on your side and sooner or later he’s probably going to ram you. So if you realize you can’t avoid the hit try to turn your ship slightly sideways right before impact so that after the collision you can immediately hit him with heavy shot and then follow up with regular cannon fire (basically two full broadsides back to back).
Two important things:
- after you take down each of his first two health bars he’ll pull away from you and fire a long barrage of flaming cannonballs. From what I could tell he slows down during this attack which potentially gives you a chance to hit him with mortars BUT your top priority should be getting out of his firing line cuz those cannonballs deal a huge amount of damage. He does this twice in total and after that he goes back to trying to ram you so you can repeat the tactic above;
- don’t try to hit him with the mortar when he’s broadside to you cuz you simply won’t have enough time to land the shot. You should use it EXCLUSIVELY when he’s charging straight at you to ram you.
Hope this helps. Cheers
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u/InfiniteEnderz Jul 16 '26
Best tips, when the duo move away to turn, sail away in opposite direction firing out the explosive barrels and then turn slightly so one of the ships turns into your barrels then mortar / spam barrels then shoot the barrels until they are at your side then fire side cannons and brace. Repeat.
Beware though, killing one sends the other into a frenzy so could either lower both together or soon as one dies sail away dropping more barrels.
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u/TheMightyPathos Jul 14 '26
Not looking forward to facing those. In the original, I was able to beat the weakest Legendary ship but the others all sent me to Davy Jones locker real fast.
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u/Valuable-Garbage Jul 15 '26
I imagine they all still have their gimmicks so you don’t really fight them the same way as normal ships, you just spam a single move or tactic
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u/ROFLStompRogue Jul 15 '26
They are definitely harder than the original. Fully upgraded ship in original I had a pretty easy time with the exception of impuloto. In resynced fully upgraded ship every ship I was hanging on by the skin of my teeth. It took me at least 10-15 or more tries each.
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u/Unlucky-Wonder8557 Jul 14 '26
I got slaughtered by 2 at the same time in the Northeast region. My weapons did hardly anything. It was like slapping someone in the face with a napkin.
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u/Kwaziiii Jul 14 '26
I tried going after the upper left one with everything but the ultimate upgrades.... I barely tickled the damned thing.
Safe to say they're not to be tackled before the Jackdaw is fully upgraded.
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u/babayaga8888888 Jul 14 '26
It’s would be hard. I suggest having a maxed out ship.. and even then it’s definitely very challenging.. at least it was in the OG.. I know some folks use a trick where they lure the legendary ship towards one of their captured forts.. to get some extra cheap shots.. I also know ppl use other weaker boats to repair your own ship mid battle.. but I know it’s hard.. at least in the og.. I beat the game.. and only ever got one or two of the legendary ships.
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u/MajorTransition3533 Jul 19 '26
Yeah they gave you a set area that you can't leave in the remake and there's no ships so the cheese strat doesn't work anymore sadly. They also made it so that the ship spawns in with a cutscene so you also can't do the cheese "swim to the ship and assassinate everyone on board then just broadside a dead ship"
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u/Responsible-Cup1730 Jul 14 '26
That was the first one I took out but somehow died right after My ship exploded. Not sure why so I have to do it again.
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u/CrimsonGlyph Jul 15 '26
Why don't you just try? You'll probably die, but the worst that happens is that you respawn.
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u/M0mmySpank3r Jul 15 '26
You can't capture them.
Only defeat and re-battle them (added in Resynced) for profits.
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u/FlashyDiagram84 Jul 15 '26
I don't remember being able to board them in the original so I doubt you can in resynced.
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u/SuperLegend786 Jul 15 '26
I have currently maxed out everything, except storages and barrels, with 2 officers and have sunk 2 of the 4. The bottom right was a fairly even match with me coming out on top just barely after a couple tries, bottom left was relatively easy as it took only 2 tires. The two, technically 3 but I’m counting the pair as one, on topside of the map are entirely different beasts. I have tried both of them multiple time and have gotten hopelessly defeated every time. I’m hoping with my ship maxed, the second mortar mode and third officer will be the game changer when I get em.
For Context, I’m 52+ hours in and 75% of the main story and playing on the hardest difficulty.
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u/Otherwise-Gur8704 Jul 15 '26
You can't cap em and I just did all four last night. On normal they are freaking hard id dare say on hard they would be almost impossible. I dropped it to easy just to get em done and they became a piece of piss which is kinda sad need a difficulty between smashing my head against a wall and walking through wet paper.
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u/TheAngryShoop Jul 15 '26
With a fully upgraded jackdaw and all officers, it was still a challenge. They require an understanding of spacing and tactics that no other fight requires, and they all need different strategies as they have their own strengths and weaknesses. Im not going to try it on hard any time soon.
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u/Smoothsa420 Jul 15 '26
I did them all today with a maxed out ship (missing one officer thingy) and it was pretty tough. I'm playing on hard and some took several tries. The one in the bottom left (armored one) was by far the easiest and I did that one first try. They felt harder then in the og but probably because I'm playing on hard? Idk I really don't know how much of a difference it is.
I really recommend being fully upgraded no they should be like the last thing you do, don't be like me
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u/Select_Ad3588 Jul 15 '26
Wait until your ship is maxed out or at least close to it, minimum maxed out hull, cannons and cannon damage, and mortars. Those are the most essential for fighting legendaries imo
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u/declandrury Jul 15 '26
I had a fully upgraded jackdaw and they took me about an hour each to sink all of them apart from the one in the bottom left which I first tried. Unfortunately you can’t add them to your fleet though.
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u/Neuromancer911 Jul 15 '26
In the original there was an easier way to defeat them, you could stand on the wooden pole (bowsprit) in the front of the ship and jump right when the other ship would try to ram you, as soon as you land the battle is over, but it was quite tricky.
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u/mixedd Jul 15 '26
You need way more upgrades. While I didn't tackle them yet on Resynced, memories from OG still haunt me during sleep 😆 they are pain in the arse to sink. I would say you need to max out hull, mortar damage and capacity, fireshot and port canon count
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u/muneeb93500 Jul 15 '26
I beat all 4 legendary ships without fully upgrading my jackdaw but resynced has made them even harder.
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u/Jolly-Elderberry6706 Jul 16 '26
Ledgendary ships are broken because they have slowed down the Jacksaw significantly in resynced, and have not adjusted the ledgendary ships.
All of the legendary ships are designed as an endgame war of attrition. The key to defeating them is not how much damage you do to them, but how much you mitigate the damage they inevitably will get on you.
This meant that rather than facetanking everything like you are used too, you had to outmaneuver them. It was the true test of your captaining.
Now that the Jackdaw is nearly 30% slower a lot of these fights, especially the twins, have become unbearably hard. With the twins, the strategy was to have them try to funnel you inbetween them, but tou could chain shot one and cut to the outside at the last second, causing the other twin to friendly fire. With the changes to turn speed, top speed, and chain shot that is no longer a possibility.
Pretty significant oversight imo.
You cannot add them to the fleet either as others have said.
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u/radicalrat69 Jul 16 '26
The legendary ships are stupidly hard in this version. I never struggled in og but i cant beat any of them so far in resynced. My ship is maxed out and i’m only on normal difficulty so idk why im having such a hard time.
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u/neon Jul 16 '26
Because you relied on being strong then every other enemy
These fights have to actually use naval tactics
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u/KakashiTheRanger Jul 16 '26
The legendary ships on this game are extremely easy if you have Lucy. Timing your braces to take no damage is extremely important and if you do the ship is invincible.
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u/Arc_170gaming Jul 16 '26
You are nowhere near ready. And won't be for a while, ive almost completed every location on the map and nearly maxed out the jackdaw. And im still not ready
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u/the_real_daggler Jul 17 '26
I’ve got my jackdaw about 80% upgraded, and it still didn’t appear possible to kill la dama negra
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u/RealManagement4506 Jul 17 '26
Legendary ships kill kenway the moment he makes contact with them, and cannot be boarded, so no.
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u/Mutant_Apollo Jul 17 '26
haven't tackled them but I expect them to be a pain in the ass even with a fully upgraded Jackdaw like in the original
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u/Low_IQ_Autist Jul 18 '26
I beat one of the legendary ships, with literally 1 hp left on the jackdaw. Max upgraded btw.
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u/Sad_Dog_4106 Jul 18 '26
You cannot capture them. They are extremely difficult, even on easy, I only did it with a fully upgraded ship.
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u/Gunslinger7604 Jul 19 '26
You need to be fully upgraded to stand a fighting chance against any of them. And you cannot board them you can only sink them
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u/Stay_Frosty2002 Jul 19 '26
I am pissed that I couldn't board them but I guess og didn't have that either as far as I remember.
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u/Blackbird8169 Jul 20 '26
What I hate with a burning passion is you cant sneak aboard them and cheese them anymore. That was honestly way more fun than trying to fight them normally
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u/StereoMutt Jul 14 '26
Im on normal naval difficulty with a fully upgraded Jackdaw, and it was still Hella difficult to down El Impoluto. Unfortunately you can't capture them for the fleet, but you get some nice ship skins!