Brain Map in Scarlet Nexus is a skill tree that consists of active and passive skills that can be unlocked for the game's Main Characters; Yuito Sumeragi or Kasane Randall. Apart from having Psycho-Kinetic Abilities, Scarlet Nexus presents the Brain Map skill tree to unlock more traits that can strengthen Yuito or Kasane's stats and to fully unleash their potential in combat. The Brain Map is presented as a skill tree where players will need to obtain and spend Brain Points (BP) to unlock or learn a new skill.
Players can access the Brain Map by cycling through the main menu. The Brain Map shows you what skills you have learned and allows you to learn new skills by spending BP. Skills are split into catgories, some routes only have a single path to learn the entire skillset, while other skillsets branch into adjacent categories. This page covers information regarding the various skills in the Brain Map.
Brain Points (BP)
You gain Brain Points (BP) when you level up. You can learn various skills by spending BP on the brain map screen in the menu.
Brain Map
The brain map shows you what skills you have learned and allows you to learn new skills by using BP. Skills are split into categories. Some routes only have a single path to learn the entire skillset, while other skillsets branch into adjacent categories.
EXP Bonus
While brain drive is active, active actions like executing brain crushes, psychokinesis follow-up attacks, and perfect dodges will increase an EXP bonus. Defeating enemies will further increase the EXP in relation to the bonus value from these actions.
Scarlet Nexus Brain Map
Expand Skills
The Skills that are under the Expand tree for Yuito Sumeragi's Brain Map focuses on unlocking different combat tactics such as a charge attack, a slam attack, auto pick-up of items, additional combos to his weapon attacks, finisher moves, and many more. If you want to focus on having more combat tactics under Yuito's belt then unlocking skills under the Expand Brain Map Tree is where you can find certain upgrades.
Support Skills
Support Skills focuses on providing Yuito with upgrades to his equipment and other combat tactics such as an unlocking additional slots for a Plug-in to be equipped, more EXP and money gained from defeating enemies, granting the ability to activate 2 Struggle Arms System (SAS) abilities, and many more.
Enhance Skills
Enhance Skills focuses on upgrading the combat stats of Yuito such as his weapon attacks, speed rate of reviving Companions, effectiveness of attacks against knocked down enemies, weapon crush effects, an increase of the Psychokinesis gauge, and many more. Focus on unlocking skills under the Enhance category if you want to strengthen Yuito's effectiveness in his basic and advanced combat moves.
Brain Drive Skills
The skill tree for the Brain Drive only becomes available through story progression upon triggering the Brain Drive combat tactic. Brain drive is a state of increased focus, temporarily granting various buffs such as an increased attack, movement, and psychokinesis speed. The brain drive gauge fills up by performing actions such as defeating enemies or receiving damage, and will activate automatically when completely filled.
Brain Field Skills
The skill tree for the Brain Field only becomes available through story progression upon triggering the Brain Field combat tactic. Brain Field is a combat tactic where the character enters a frenzy mode. During this period, the character cannot use his or her weapons in combat but instead will have the ability to fully unleash the power of Psychokinesis. Brain Field only becomes active after a period of time, and the skills under the Brain Field category grants upgrades such as increased attacks when Brain Field is used or even extending the duration.
All Brain Map Skills Table
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| Name | Type | Effect | BP |
| Rebound | Expand | Use  to recover when knocked away and prevent being knocked down. |
?? |
| Charge Attack | Expand | Hold  to charge power and release to perform a powered up weapon attack in a large area. |
?? |
| Slam Attack | Expand | Hold while mid-air to perform a downward weapon attack. |
3 |
| Iterm Attraction | Expand | Automatically picks up nearby items. | 3 |
| Perfect Dodge Psychokinesis Restore | Expand | Charge a small amount of Psychokinesis gauge after a perfect dodge. | 3 |
| 4th Weapon Combo Attack Hit | Expand | Can perform four consecutive weapon attacks. | 4 |
| Level-2 Charge Attack | Expand | After charging by holding C, charge one more level and release C to increase the charge attack's power. | ?? |
| Enhanced Charge Attack | Expand | Increases the power and area of Charge Attacks and Level-2 Charge attacks. | 4 |
| Psychokinesis Finish | Expand | Use  on the knocked down enemy to perform a psychokinesis attack slam. |
5 |
| 5th Weapon Combo Attack Hit | Expand | Can perform five consecutive weapon attacks. | 6 |
| Perfect Dodge Attack | Expand | Use  right after a perfect dodge to perform a weapon attack. |
3 |
| Double Jump | Expand | Can perofrm an additional jump by using  while mid-air. |
?? |
| Follow-Up Attack Expand 1 | Expand | Can perform three consecutive psychokinesis follow-up attacks and rush follow-up attacks. | 4 |
| Expand Moving Spin Attack | Expand | Can perform the Moving Spin Attack twice during a single combo. Press C while moving to execute this sweeping area attack. | ?? |
| Follow-Up Attack Expand 2 | Expand | Can perform four consecutive psychokinesis follow-up attacks and rush follow-up attacks | ?? |
| Aerial Follow-Up Attack | Expand | Execute an aerial follow-up attack by using while performing an earial weapon combo. |
3 |
| Aerial Dash | Expand | Can perform an aerial dash by using while mid-air. |
3 |
| Mid-Air Dash Attack | Expand | Use (Left mouse click) while aerial dashing to perform a forward weapon attack. | ?? |
| Additional Plug-in Equip Slot 1 | Support | Increases Plug-in capacity at the equip screen by 1. | 2 |
| Shorten Item Usage Cooldown | Support | Shortens cooldown after item usage. | 2 |
| Brain Crush SAS Restore | Support | Defeating enemies with braing crush while SAS is active slightligh resotres the gauge of the SAS being used. | 3 |
| Brain Crush Money Bonus | Support | Defeating enemies with brain crush will increase the amount of money received after the battle. | 4 |
| Brain Crush EXP Bonus | Support | Defeating enemies with brain crush will increase EXP gained. | 4 |
| Additional Plug-in Equip Slot 2 | Support | Increases Plug-in capacity at the equip screen by 1. | 5 |
| Concurrent SAS Activation | Support | Learning this skill will allow up to 2 concurrent SAS activations. Learning the second of the same name will allow up to 4. | 4 |
| Overkill | Support | Hitting enemies stunned by a depleted crush gauge increases the EXP bonus. However, this doesn't work against strong foes whose HP has been depleted. | 3 |
| Brain Crush Chance Expand | Support | After reducing an enemy's crush gauge to 0, the time enemies are disabled is increased along with the potential time to execute brain crush. | 4 |
| Attack Up 1 | Enhance | Attack +5%. Increases damage for weapon attacks. | ?? |
| Follow-Up Attack | Enhance | Increases damage dealt to enemies that are knocked down. | 3 |
| Revive Speed Up | Enhance | Increases speed at which allies are revived. | 3 |
| Weapon Crush Effect Up 1 | Enhance | Weapon attackscan drain crush gauge by a great amount. Increase base by 5%. | ?? |
| Attack Up 2 | Enhance | Attack +5%. Increases damage for weapon attacks. | 3 |
| Max Psy. Gauge Boost | Enhance | Learning this skill will increases the psychokinesis gaugae maximum by 50%, while learning the second of the same name will increase it by 100%. | 3 |
| Power Up | Enhance | Attack +5%. Increases damage for psychokinesis attacks. | 3 |
| Psychokinesis Crush Effect Up | Enhance | Psychokinesis attacks can drain crush gauge by a great amount. Increase base by 5%. | ?? |
| Brain Drive Gauge Charge Rate Up | Brain Drive | Brain Drive Gauge Accumulation +20%. Specific actions such as defeating enemies or receiving damage will increase the accumulation rate, allowing the brain drive gauge to charge faster. | 3 |
| Brain Drive: Auto-heal | Brain Drive | Health gradually recovered while brain drive is active. | 3 |
| Braind Drive: Status Ailment Recovery | Brain Drive | Restores status ailements when brain drive is activated. | 3 |
| BD: Consecutive Assault Vision | Brain Drive | Assault Visions will be consecutively actiavted while the Brain Drive is active | 4 |
| Brain Drive: Restore Brain Drive 1 | Brain Drive | Defeating enemies with brain crush while brain drive is active slightly restores the brain drive gauge. | 3 |
| Brain Drive: Bonus Multiplier Up | Brain Drive | Increase the EXP bonus multiplier gain while brain drive is active. | 3 |
| Brain Drive: Attack Crush Effect Up | Brain Drive | Can greatly reduce enemy's crush gauge with attacks while brain drive is active. | 4 |
| Brain Drive: Restore Brain Drive 2 | Brain Drive | Defeating enemies with brain crush while brain drive is active slightly restores the brain drive gauge. | 6 |
| Brain Drive: Status Up | Brain Drive | While Brain Drive is active, +10% to power, defense, attack. | 3 |
| Brain Drive: SAS Gauge Restore | Brain Drive | Activating brain drive completely restores all SAS gauges. | 4 |
| Mid-Air Attack Charge Rate Up | Brain Drive | Increases Psychokinesis Gauge charge rate from aerial attacks. *Does not include + rising slash attack. |
3 |
| Weapon Crush Effect 2 | Brain Drive | Weapon attacks can drain crush gauge by a great amount. Increase base by 5%. | 4 |
| Brain Field: Time Extension 1 | Brain Field | Prolong brain field active time by 5 seconds. | 2 |
| Brain Field: Launch Level Up 1 | Brain Field | Increase the numebr of objects thrown while you have a Brain Field activated. | 2 |
| Brain Field: Launch Level Up 2 | Brain Field | Further increase the number objects thrown while you have a Brain Field active. | 3 |
| Brain Field: Time Extension 2 | Brain Field | Prolong brain field active time by 5 seconds. | 4 |
| Brain Field: Overkill | Brain Field | While the Brain Field is activated, hitting enemies with a depleted crush gauge increased the EXP bonus. however, this doesn't work against strong foes whose HP has been depleted. | 2 |
| Brain Field: Swing Level Up | Brain Field | Increases the number of objects that can be swung and expands the area of effect when brain field is active. | 2 |
| Brain Field: Free Drive Charge | Brain Field | If there is a brain field ready icon displayed, a brain field can be activated without consuming a charge when activated during a brain drive. | 4 |
| Brain Field: Reduce Damage | Brain Field | While the Brain Field is active, you will receive less damage. Learning 1 of the same skill name will halve damage, while learning both will negate it completely. | 5 |
| Brain Field: Charge Drop Level Up | Brain Field | Increases the number of objects that are gathered when holding and the damage the dropped objects deal when brain field is active | 2 |
| Quick Item | Brain Field | Eliminates the actions needed for using items, applying the item effects immediately. | 4 |
| Auto-heal | Brain Field | Eiminates the actions needed for using items, applying the item effects immediately | 6 |
