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Why are some skills so exclusive?

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Some skills have absolutely no business being locked to a 5 star or worse. (Seasonal or Limited Copies of unit)

Hone Fliers - Seriously, why does this singular Emblem buff skill have to be five star locked when Hone Cavalry and Armor are so easy to get? Neither that skill or Hinoka deserve to be five star locked.

Goad Armor - Again, this skill being on only one (normally summonable) 5 star exclusive unit makes no sense. It's on Vanilla Hector, so Distant Counter overshadows it. Sure Valentine Eliwood has it, but he's limited. Hector doesn't need to be demoted, but this skill definitely does with a future demoted armor. Maybe not now based on the current meta, but eventually.

Any Dual Stat A skill kept in 5 Stars Only - Just why? These are some of the most basic skills in the entire game with little effect, why do they have to be locked? Two examples that make me mad are Atk/Def and Def/Res. Atk/Def are only found on Seasonals, Tempest Units, and the combination of the two. Def/Res could've be used on mixed melee tanks easily, but no, they had to put it on a seasonal.

Boost Skills - The best one of these is on a summonable 3-4 star unit, Earth Boost. Why the heck aren't the others? They're not that good and very niche. Water Boost makes me mad the most as it's only on one unit, and he's limited, and his weapon overshadows it.

Windsweep - There's no reason this skill should be only on one summonable 5 star unit, at least Watersweep is on a demoted unit. It's not that great.

Poleaxe+ and Zanbato+ - Poleaxe+ shouldn't be exclusive to a Tempest Unit, and Zanbato+ shouldn't be locked on a 5 star exclusive when Ridersbane exists and every version for the armor equivilant is easily obtainable. Makes no sense.

And lastly, Swift Sparrow - At this point, this skill is not as premium as it used to be. Nowadays, almost every fast ranged unit has to have it in base kit. It's a great skill, but that's not okay. At the very least, have the final tier of it kept in 5 stars on a newly demoted 4 star unit.

I would list singular stance skills, but it seems IS is fixing that issue. What skills seem like they should be demoted to at least 4-5 star, but aren't?

Asked by Pacmaniac2 months 3 weeks ago

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tl;dr

Because IS is stupid.

Yep, that about sums it all up.

Reminder that shield pulse is available only on Saber and Fjorm. The one skill that makes defensive specials passable is 5* locked on 2 units. A potential counter to special spamming meta. It's infuriating.

Yep, wouldn't mind Saber being demoted.

Hone Fliers and the Dragon buff skills literally makes 0 sense as to why they’re still locked to 5*s or limited units. Horse and Armor skills aren’t so why should fliers and dragons? Shit makes 0 sense

Exactly

Will IS ever demote Alm for windsweep, or Hinoka for Hone Flier ?

every new unit introduced are now fully decked with skills.
I wonder what would happen if they give 1 or 2 skills only on new unit like gen1 ?

Alm will never be demoted since:
A. He's a really good unit and mostly units with poor base stats that don't deserve to be 5 Star get demoted.
B. Windsweep is mostly used on fast dragons (like S!Tiki I think, saw some of them running around) so the skill isn't highly likable.
For Hinoka since she has such a good personal weapon I personally don't think she will get demoted, but she could be.

Ploy's are a massive issue for me. There isn't a single ploy skill that is unlocked at 4* that isn't on a limited unit. If it weren't for GHB units, every single ploy would be 5* exclusive, and that's just not ok.

It’s because making skills more rare means people will be more willing to buy orbs to pull these units when they’re on a banner and the main goal of gacha games from a company’s stand point is to make them a boat load of money.

But some skills just don't deserve to be there.

It's dumb.

Rally Def/Res is actually on Roderick...I've used it a lot.

I never said anything about Rally.

To be fair, for Hector, you could inherent Spur atk 2 or Spur spd 2 to a unit first, then you could get DC and goad armor.

This is true, but Goad Armor itself doesn't deserve to be 5 star locked.

yeah