20 Video Game Skills That Secretly Change The Game

7. Herbivore - Age of Wonders 4

Age of Wonders 4 is a turn-based strategy in which you can design and then command your own race of fantasy creatures.

When creating your people, you get to pick from a variety of different traits that provide bonuses like increased strength, health, arcane power, and more.

However, one of the most powerful abilities you can pick here is the Herbivore trait.

On paper, Herbivore is a special ability that allows you to consume the flora on the battle map to restore your unit’s health. It seems situational, considering some maps don’t spawn with plants, and a lot of the times, your units might be too far away from plants to eat them.

This said, if you combine the Herbivore ability with certain skills, this healing power can turn from situational to overpowered.

Certain lords, like the transformed Nature Dragon or Ritualist heroes, can learn spells that spawn plants in great number. Using these abilities, you can fill the battlefield with mounds of flowers and essentially allow your units to heal wherever they want, whenever they want.

Who needs healing magic when you can munch on some grass instead?