As the stealthy Naoe, most of your skills—early game through to the conclusion—revolve around stealth kills, debuffs, and striking fast and hard from the shadows before disappearing. The goal, as Naoe, is to end fights quickly, not draw them out into stylish masterpieces like Yasuke.

With Assassin's Creed Shadows having just released, we figured it was time to properly rank Ubisoft's beloved stealth-action franchise.

Ubisoft Entertainment SA shares jumped as much as 10% after the video game maker said it will carve out a unit including Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry and Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six into a subsidiary with an enterprise value of about €4 billion ($4.