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I'd give an Honorable Mention to Fire Emblem 8's skill "Sure Strike" it's exclusive to the sniper class and it's a level % of making the attack hit , So the class with the best Hit rate gets a skill to always land hits? Makes sense.

I feel Knife could’ve been useful if they were given to Archers, so they at least have an option to defend at close range.

I love how Raphael's personal skill gives a tiny amount of health in a game where healing is everywhere. very ebin.

I’d like to shout Cyril’s version of the Aptitude skill. Aptitude gives 20% extra growth to each stat which sounds good until you learn that Cyril has really low base growths, so the boost aptitude gives just gives him growths that are roughly on par with other characters. He basically just doesn’t have a personal skill.

The worst part about Bane as a Bond Ring skill in Engage is that the same batch of Bond Rings features Elincia and her Mercy skill, which works just like it did in RD (you always leave foes at 1 HP)

If you're that desperate to give kills to weaker units, then there's really no contest

Corrosion was absolutely just an enemy skill that they left for players to get access to. In that case it's a fantastic skill for the enemy units, it makes even the lowliest unit dangerous enough you might avoid them so you don't lose a good weapon.

The one niche for Selena's personal is the arena. The enemies are strong enough that they can survive a crit. You can set up Selena's partner to be a crit bot and Selena helps deal damage.

I remember back in the day of Fates online where Azama would basically be used with both counter skills with max HP to basically guarantee that you will take out on of the enemies 5 units before you died, making it more like a 4v4 there

narration: "Linhardt's Doze Off"
video footage: currently showing Linhardt's skill on-screen, where it's clearly visible that its name is Catnap
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I think Etie's personal skill, Energized, is also one of the worst personal skills. It has a very situational effect (healing with an item, so a staff won't work on her), the effect's really minor (it couldn't be at least Str +3 or 4?), but the biggest issue is that it's given to Etie, a player-phase focused archer with poor durability, who you generally don't want to make her use her turn on something that isn't an attack for a skill that'd only be useful for enemy phase most of the time.

Another one from 3H that didn't get mentioned is Battalion Renewal (another healing skill? It must be a coincidence /s). It's not a personal skill but it just feels like the most backwards skill design possible.

For Battalion Renewal to activate your Battalion has to be below 1/3 endurance *but not broken*. This means once it's in Battalion Renewal range you can often at most only take 1-2 hits before your Battalion breaks. The catch? Since the skill is a healing skill you quite literally need to take damage for it to do anything. So in the absolute best case scenarios you might be able to get it to proc a single time in a map before your Battalion breaks.

By nature the Battalion skills encourage you to not take damage to prolong the time they're active. But Battalion Renewal quite literally cannot activate unless you're taking damage. It just doesn't make any sense

Shout-out the guy who killed lunatic Xander with an unpromoted unarmed Azama using divine retribution

I like how Path of Radiance added animations for like 4 different sage models both map and battle, with crits, just to nerf 2 characters. Soren's 2 critical knife animations would be the most obscure animations in the entire game if not for the crit magic sword at 2 range crit from a general or sword knight or probably Ashnard from the bonus maps, I can't say I've ever seen those.

always a bummer when a favorite unit just has a useless personal skill. RIP Linhardt

My blood pressure slightly goes up when i see the enemy has a 1% to crit me.

WHOOOOOO ARTHUR MENTION!!! Oh wait...

I think it might be worth mentioning how Azama's personal skill is less of an actual personal skill for him as a player unit but more of a TUTORIAL in Chapter 8 to introduce the effects of personal skills. Combine that with the dialogue of Hinoka's group in the same chapter oh so subtly tutorializing how desert movement works by having Setsuna the Archer being the only one getting stuck in the sand... It's kinda just too funny to take seriously once you notice.

I practicaly jumped out of my seat when you mentioned Engage - Bane. I thought that one was useful at first so I had it on rotation for a while, but when I figured out how it actually worked and saw it was repeatedly screwing my units over I had a fit. XD

"If you really want to use Donnel..." Of course I want to use Donnel. He's such a good, little doobie!

Lynderhardt's personal skill is why I made him a tank at one point. :)
It actually saved me prior to that since there are those lengthy walks from enemy to enemy when you are 75% done with a map. Also, frees up an item slot.