Changes: Special Technique

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Meteor Impact Disgaea PSP 4 — Laharl using Meteor Impact in *Disgaea: Afternoon of Darkness*.

A Special Technique, also known as simply Skill or Special, is one of the basic actions that units can perform in battle. Special techniques can have all sorts of effects, including powerful attacks with increased range or area of effect, healing effects, and some that apply ailments, buffs, or debuffs.

Special techniques need to spend a certain amount of SP to be used, limiting the amount of specials that a unit can use in a battle.

Types of Special Techniques[]

There are various types of Specials, with different learning/use requirements.

Weapon Skills[]

Specials learned by Humanoid units through the Weapon Mastery and Weapon Forte systems. Once learned, they can only be used if the corresponding weapon is equipped.

Spells[]

Main article: Spell

Specials with variable range and area of effect. While only specific classes learn them as they level up(Generics sometimes also require reaching a certain Class Tier), various systems throughout the franchise allow any unit to learn any Spell.

Unique[]

Specials learned only by a specific class. They are learned simply by leveling up, and have no requirement to be used.

Magichange[]

Specials that are learned by Monster units as they level up, but can only be used by a Humanoid wielding them as a Magichange weapon.

Magichange glitch[]

A glitch in Disgaea 2: Dark Hero Days and Disgaea 2 PC exists where Humanoid characters can gain skills of Monsters. By completing the Darkly Adonic map with characters affected by Magichange, due to an error in which the game does not fully reset the state of characters when the ending commences, the character's equipped Magichange weapons will stay equipped and can be permanently kept while still having these characters in the army when the game continues from the beginning after the completing of the map. This lets the Humanoid keep the Magichange skills, and if Magichange 2 was used then they can also use the second Monster's Unique skills.

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 [[File:Meteor Impact Disgaea PSP 4.png|thumb|Laharl using Meteor Impact in ''Disgaea: Afternoon of Darkness''.]]
-A '''Special Technique''', skill, or special, is a skill that can be used in battle. There are various types of special techniques, including ones that are stronger attacks with potentially better range than the basic attack, ranged elemental magic attacks, and healing spells.
+A '''Special Technique''', also known as simply '''Skill''' or '''Special''', is one of the basic actions that units can perform in battle. Special techniques can have all sorts of effects, including powerful attacks with increased range or area of effect, healing effects, and some that apply ailments, buffs, or debuffs.
-Special techniques require the user to have a certain number of [[SP]] to be able to use the special. When used, the amount of SP is subtracted from the user.
+Special techniques need to spend a certain amount of [[SP]] to be used, limiting the amount of specials that a unit can use in a battle.
-==Learning Special Techniques==
-There are multiple ways to learn Special Techniques in the ''Disgaea'' series. By leveling up to specified levels, [[humanoid]] [[class]]es that specialize in magic as, main characters with unique classes, as well as [[monster]] classes, can gain Special Techniques. In addition, magic spells can be learned by other users in certain games by use of the [[Extra Gain]] system. Specials can also be learned if the user increases in [[Weapon Mastery]] of a certain kind of weapon. The list of Special Techniques varies depending on game.
 ==Types of Special Techniques==
+There are various types of Specials, with different learning/use requirements.
-There are two major types of special techniques, special moves, and magic spells. Further more, each are separated into various kinds.
+=== Weapon Skills===
+Specials learned by Humanoid units through the [[Weapon Mastery|Weapon Mastery and Weapon Forte]] systems. Once learned, they can only be used if the corresponding weapon is equipped.
-===Special moves===
+===Spells===
-Certain classes have unique special moves. In addition, each weapon type except the staff has special moves associated with them that can only be used if the correct weapon type is equipped.
-===Magic===
-[[File:Tera Heal.png|thumb|Tera Heal being casted in ''Disgaea 4''.]]
 {{Main|Spell}}
+Specials with variable range and area of effect. While only specific classes learn them as they level up(Generics sometimes also require reaching a certain Class Tier), various systems throughout the franchise allow any unit to learn any Spell.
-There are multiple kinds of magic. There are four elements of magical attack, Fire, Ice, Wind, and Star, and each have their own series of spells, with multiple tiers of spells of the same element which gradually become stronger. In addition, healing spells exist in multiple tiers as well, with stronger spells being available that use more SP.
+=== Unique ===
-Spells are best used by [[humanoid]]s wielding [[staff]]s, as using a staff increases the range of spells. In addition, [[Weapon Mastery]] in staff usage can increase the range of spells further.
+Specials learned only by a specific class. They are learned simply by leveling up, and have no requirement to be used.
+=== Magichange ===
-Generally, the tiers of spells are as follows, though only some games have all six tiers of spells.
+Specials that are learned by Monster units as they level up, but can only be used by a Humanoid wielding them as a [[Magichange]] weapon.
-*Normal
-*Mega
-*Giga
-*Omega
-*Tera
-*Peta
-These are the basic spells.
-*Fire (fire damage)
-*Ice (ice damage)
-*Wind (wind damage)
-*Star (star damage)
-*Heal (restore HP)
-*Espoir (eliminates status conditions)
-*Braveheart (increase [[attack]])
-*Shield (increase [[defense]])
-*Magic Boost (increase [[intelligence]])
-*Magical Wall (increase [[resistance]])
-*Speed Boost (increase [[speed]])
-*Target Lock (increase [[hit]])
-*Enfeeble (decrease [[attack]])
-*Armor Break (decrease [[defense]])
-*Mind Break (decrease [[intelligence]])
-*Resist Break (decrease [[resistance]])
-*Slow (decrease [[speed]])
-*Bind (decrease [[hit]])
 ==Magichange glitch==
-A glitch in ''[[Disgaea 2: Dark Hero Days]]'' and ''[[Disgaea 2 PC]]'' exists where characters can learn special techniques that are intended to be unique to a certain class or character, such as [[Adell]] learning [[Tink]]'s special "Goodbye Tink" which is not supposed to be learned by other characters. By completing the [[Darkly Adonic]] map with characters affected by [[Magichange]], due to an error in which the game does not fully reset the state of characters when the ending commences, the character's equipped Magichange weapons will stay equipped and can be permanently kept while still having these characters in the army when the game continues from the beginning after the completing of the map. Characters wielding a Magichange 2 item can also permanently learn both monster skills such as Full Bloom as well as Magichange skills such as Triple Fire Jump.
+A glitch in ''[[Disgaea 2: Dark Hero Days]]'' and ''[[Disgaea 2 PC]]'' exists where Humanoid characters can gain skills of Monsters. By completing the [[Darkly Adonic]] map with characters affected by [[Magichange]], due to an error in which the game does not fully reset the state of characters when the ending commences, the character's equipped Magichange weapons will stay equipped and can be permanently kept while still having these characters in the army when the game continues from the beginning after the completing of the map. This lets the Humanoid keep the Magichange skills, and if Magichange 2 was used then they can also use the second Monster's Unique skills.
-==See also==
-*[[Spell]]
 [[Category:Special Techniques]]