10 "Useless" Video Game Skills That Are SECRETLY DEADLY
These video game abilities may look weak on the surface, but they secretly pack a mighty punch...
When creating and leveling up your video game character, it’s important to give them the best skills available. This usually means picking the most damage-dealing and stats-buffing perks, although sometimes the best of the best may not be as easy to discover.
Looks can often be deceiving. Some skills may appear useless when you get them, offering nothing beyond a cosmetic change or a weak ability, but in reality they may possess a hidden use that makes them worth the investment.
The trick is to discover this secret potential, which may require a lot of experimentation with something most people wouldn’t even bother to use. For this reason, many players have no idea about what these “useless” skills are capable of, missing out on a truly devastating ability.
From gimmicks that can turn you into an apex predator to "harmless" abilities that end up killing everything around you, the following skills may not seem like much, but learning how to use them properly can turn them into your greatest weapon....
10. Nurgle's Foul Stink - Total War: Warhammer III
Composing your army in Total War: Warhammer III can be a pretty daring task. You have hundreds of different units to choose from, and each one can seem deadly in its own way.
You have swordsmen, giant cannons, and fantasy monsters, but if you are playing as the Beastmen faction, your greatest weapon is actually a band of really stinky cow people.
One of the unique traits that the heroes and lords of the Beastmen factions can gain is Nurgle’s Foul Stink. The trait allows them to slightly lower the enemy army’s leadership in combat, which on its own doesn’t really sound that useful.
However, the thing that makes this deceptively minor debuff strong is that it stacks, meaning that if you create an army consisting of only stinky heroes, their combined stench will lower any army’s leadership below zero, and then all you have to do is kill a few of the hostile units to immediately cause the rest to flee.
Even the mightiest forces will run away from your bovine stink, so if you don’t feel like strategizing and want an easy win, make sure to handpick only the smelliest leaders into your Beastmen armies!