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Skills that'd be better as seals?

I was thinking Skills like Guard, Cancel Affinity, Escape Route, and Pass. Pretty much any skill that doesn't see much use. What skills do you think would be better if they were seals?

Asked by Pacmaniac4 months ago
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This is quite accurate, actually. A-skills often provide much-needed stats, and most units would prefer to use DC as a seal rather than an A-skill.

That said, I don't want to see a DC seal. We're getting close enough to phoenix mode as it is with dazzling peshkatz and Garm's free doubles combined with special fighter.

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Links, Feints and Chills, they are not bad skills but they are in a bad spot in my opinion since they are in the B slot, and you have skills like Deperation, Vantage and Quick reposte which are very solid options in the B slot, while support units (who should be the ones using chills) have Wings of Mercy as a very solid option, i personally don't like Chills but only because they are in the B slot, i would definetly use them if they were seals

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The skills that would be far and away better as seals are the [Weapon] Valor skills that give you double SP. Attach it to a unit that you are leveling or that needs SP and go to town.

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This will never happen. The whole point is to limit the availability of these skills to specific, often seasonal, units. This encourages players to pull for them, even if solely for the utility.

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Imagine Renewal 9 masked marth getting 30 hp every other turn. You'd be better off leaving the seal at Renewal 2. You get at least 10 hp every turn for all turns (n) where n >= 2 and n is not prime.

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I'd like to see the rest of the shields, I find them surprisingly useful but they're always better options for A slot.

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Yes, but consider how that would affect the tier 20.5 and 21 meta. Armors are popular up there. Giving them a check against their counters leaves practically no room to deal with them effectively and little chance for error. Arena runs are already hard for me as a tier 20.5er. While I'd love to have both DC and Svalinn Shield on my Sheena simultaneously, the broader context of the overall meta become way too heavily armor based even more than it already is is just scary. Same type of argument goes for dragons, although that's more tier 20.5 than 21. I could see a Grani's Shield becoming a seal, since cavalry have dropped off maybe a little too much since the implementation of the restrictive tiles. Though their BST is not helping with that.

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As Raikoben mentioned, Triangle Adept would work wonders as a sacred seal as opposed to an A skill. People would much rather run blows, bonds, or breaths in that slot. TAdept unfortunately only sees much use on -raventome wielders. If it was made a sacred seal, they could run skills like Death Blow in the A slot.

A skill I never want to see as a seal, however, is Desperation, due to how ludicrously broken it could be. Imagine, if you will, a Brave Lance-wielding Effie with Bold Fighter and Desperation, and a way to get under 75% HP. She would land 4 hits in a row before the foe would be able to retaliate if they even survived.

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