Kessen III/Skills

Kessen III’s skill system is divided between the categories of Aid, Tactical, Attack, Ninjutsu, and Samurai. Aid skills boost and heal ally officers, tactical skills debuff enemy officers, attack skills deal direct damage to enemy officers, ninjutsu skills inflict massive damage coupled with status effects, and the samurai category only contains the skill to activate rampage mode against enemy officers. Unlike the previous games, each skill draws from the same skill slot pool of four points, with each skill requiring a different amount of slots to activate. These skill slots will recover as the battle progresses, but their restoration takes time. The rate of recovery is calculated by the intelligence stat and items the officer possesses. As an added bonus to the change in skills, any officer can learn any skill provided they possess a primer which teaches the desired skill.

Primers are acquired either in the overworld store or as prizes from battle. They allow officers to use the desired skill in battle at level zero for new skills. More advanced primers allow the characters to learn more than one skill at a time. Alongside allowing officers to gain new skills, the primers will increase the rate at which an officer levels the skill after its initial unlock at level one.