Read this guide to know more about the best Intelligence perks in Cyberpunk 2077. Get to know the effects of each perk, recommendations, builds and abilities, and more!
Table of Contents
| Useful Guides | |
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| All Perks | How To Reset Perks |
| Best Perks | |
| Body | Reflexes |
| Technical Ability | Intelligence |
| Cool | - |
Best Intelligence Perks & Builds
Best Breach Protocol Perks
| Perk Name | Effect |
|---|---|
| Big Sleep | Passive Unlocks the Big Sleep daemon, which disables all cameras in the network for 3 min |
| Datamine Mastermind | Passive Upgrades the Datamine daemon, increasing the amount of components acquired from Access Points by 50% |
| Datamine Virtuoso | Passive Upgrades the Datamine daemon, increasing the chance to acquire a quickhack from Access Points by 50% |
Best Quick Hacking Perks
| Perk Name | Effect |
|---|---|
| Biosynergy | Passive Allows RAM to recover during combat. Recover 4 RAM unit[s] every 50 sec |
| I Spy | Passive Reveals an enemy netrunner when they're attempting to hack you |
| Signal Support | Passive Increases quickhack duration by 25% |
List Of All Intelligence Perks
All Breach Protocol Perks
| Perk Name | Effect / How To Unlock |
|---|---|
| Mass Vulnerability | Passive Unlocks the Mass Vulnerability daemon, reduces the Physical Resistance for all enemies in the network by 30% for 3 min. How To Unlock: Default |
| Mass Vulnerability: Resistances | Passive Upgrades the Mass Vulnerability daemon, reducing all Resistances for enemies in the network by 30%. How To Unlock: Intelligence 7 |
| Turret Tamer | Passive Unlocks the Turret Tamer daemon, which sets the status of every turret in the network to friendly for 3 min. How To Unlock: Intelligence 12 |
| Head Start | Passive Automatically uploads the first daemon in the list at the start of Breach Protocol. How To Unlock: Intelligence 18 |
| Big Sleep | Passive Unlocks the Big Sleep daemon, which disables all cameras in the network for 3 min. How To Unlock: Default |
| Datamine Mastermind | Passive Upgrades the Datamine daemon, increasing the amount of components acquired from Access Points by 50%. How To Unlock: Intelligence 5 |
| Datamine Virtuoso | Passive Upgrades the Datamine daemon, increasing the chance to acquire a quickhack from Access Points by 50%. How To Unlock: Intelligence 12 |
| Hackathon | Passive Uploading 3 or more daemons in the same Breach Protocol shortens quickhack cooldowns by 33% for 5 min. How To Unlock: Intelligence 18 |
| Almost In! | Passive Increases the breach time for Breach Protocol by 20%. How To Unlock: Intelligence 5 |
| Extended Network Interface | Passive Automatically highlights nearby Access Points. How To Unlock: Intelligence 7 |
| Efficiency | Passive Uploading 3 or more daemons in the same Breach Protocol increases cyberdeck RAM recovery rate by 3 unit[s] per 60 sec. Lasts 5 min. How To Unlock: Intelligence 14 |
| Compression | Passive Reduces the lengths of the sequences required to upload daemons by 1. Cannot be reduced below 2. How To Unlock: Intelligence 20 |
| Advanced Datamine | Passive Upgrades the Datamine daemon, increasing the amount of eurodollars acquired from Access Points by 50%. How To Unlock: Intelligence 9 |
| Mass Vulnerability: Quickhacks | Passive Upgrades the Mass Vulnerability daemon, causing enemies in the network to also take 30% more damage from quickhacks. How To Unlock: Intelligence 16 |
| Turret Shutdown | Passive Unlocks the Turret Shutdown daemon, which disables security turrets in the network for 3 min. How To Unlock: Intelligence 9 |
| Cloud Cache | Passive Completing a Breach Protocol reduces the RAM cost of your next quickhack by 1 time[s] the number of daemons uploaded. How To Unlock: Intelligence 14 |
| Buffer Optimization | Passive Increases the duration of daemon effects by 100%. How To Unlock: Intelligence 20 |
| Total Recall | Passive The ICEpick daemon reduces all quickhack costs by an additional 1 RAM unit[s]. How To Unlock: Intelligence 11 |
| Totaler Recall | Passive The ICEpick daemon reduces all quickhack costs by an additional 1 RAM unit[s]. How To Unlock: Intelligence 16 |
| Transmigration | Passive Increases the breach time of Breach Protocol by 50% +5% per Perk level. How To Unlock: Device Hacking point 16 or more |
All Quick Hacking Perks
| Perk Name | Effect / How To Unlock |
|---|---|
| Bloodware | Passive Quickhacks deal 10% more damage. How To Unlock: Default |
| Hacker's Manual | Passive Unlocks Crafting Specs for Uncommon quickhacks. How To Unlock: Intelligence 5 |
| Diffusion | Passive Quickhack spread distance is increased by 2 times. How To Unlock: Intelligence 12 |
| Optimization | Passive Reduces the cost of quickhacks by 1 RAM unit[s]. How To Unlock: Intelligence 20 |
| Biosynergy | Passive Allows RAM to recover during combat. Recover 4 RAM unit[s] every 50 sec. How To Unlock: Default |
| I Spy | Passive Reveals an enemy netrunner when they're attempting to hack you. How To Unlock: Intelligence 5 |
| Mnemonic | Passive Reduces the cost of quickhacks used against an enemy already affected by a quickhack by 2 RAM units. How To Unlock: Intelligence 12 |
| Anamnesis | Passive Available cyberdeck RAM cannot drop below 2 unit[s]. How To Unlock: Intelligence 18 |
| Forget-Me-Not | Passive Eliminating a target affected by a quickhack instantly recovers 1 RAM unit[s]. How To Unlock: Intelligence 5 |
| Daisy Chain | Passive Eliminating a target affected by a quickhack reduces the existing cooldowns for all other active quickhacks by 10%. How To Unlock: Intelligence 7 |
| School Of Hard Hacks | Passive Unlocks Crafting Specs for Rare quickhacks. How To Unlock: Intelligence 12 |
| Bartmoss' Legacy | Passive Unlocks Crafting Specs for Legendary quickhacks. How To Unlock: Intelligence 20 |
| Signal Support | Passive Increases quickhack duration by 25%. How To Unlock: Intelligence 9 |
| Critical Error | Passive Quickhacks can now deal Crit Hits based on your Crit Chance and Crit Damage stats. How To Unlock: Intelligence 16 |
| Weak Link | Passive Reduces the required cyberdeck RAM for quickhacks used on devices by 1 unit[s]. How To Unlock: Intelligence 7 |
| Plague | Passive Quickhacks that spread can jump to 1 additional targets. How To Unlock: Intelligence 14 |
| Subliminal Message | Passive Quickhacks deal 50% more damage to unaware targets. How To Unlock: Intelligence 11 |
| Hacker Overlord | Passive Unlocks Crafting Specs for Epic quickhacks. How To Unlock: Intelligence 16 |
| Master RAM Liberatir | Passive Increases RAM recovery rate by 50%. +1% per Perk level. How To Unlock: Target Hacking point 20 or more |
