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Message: [QUOTE="UnDubious, post: 141853, member: 4030"] One status ailment that's particularly useless in 99.9% of RPGs is Poison. It'll probably miss, and even when it hits, it just does some tiny amount of damage every turn that probably won't add up to one normal hit throughout the entire fight. It's obvious a lot of devs just throw certain skills in just because some genres always have them and don't question their use. A cool counterexample to this is 7th Dragon 2020. Each character class has an ultimate skill you can get late in the game through a mini sidequest, and it requires a certain gauge be full to use so you usually only get to do it once per boss battle. The Tricker's ultimate skill does less damage than the other classes (still a good hit), but it inflicts every single status ailment in the game, with a good chance of success. The boss will be paralyzed, asleep, blinded, slowed down, take damage every turn from poison and fire, and who knows what else. A strong boss will recover from the worst ones pretty quickly, but you'll still get 1-2 free turns at least. It's super useful. [/QUOTE]

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