8 Overpowered Video Game Spells (That Totally SUCK)

8. SealAll - Chrono Cross

Very rare is it for the almighty Chrono Cross to make it into any list containing "worst" in the title, but even Gods can stumble from time to time, and when it came to the "SealAll" spell, Chrono Cross had a tumble that made Professor Nakayama's staircase descent look graceful.

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In Chrono Cross, each class is given a specific color called an Innate, which imparts both elemental resistances and weaknesses depending on what other colors are used against them in battle. For example, a character class with an innate White focus will be weak to Black magic and so on. Therefore you're going to want to use spells that enemies are weak to in order to maximize damage, and it's here that the "sealall" spell raises its weirdly shaped head and points to itself with a malicious smile.

This spell, on paper at least, is utterly amazing as what it does is shut off ALL elements in the battle, reducing the damage output of your opponents by blocking access to their most powerful spells and giving you time to either regroup your party or push forward with physical damage. Sounds great right?!

Well in practice you'll soon find little use for SealAll, as regular enemies very rarely require this sort of mute button, and every boss in the game is immune to the spell! and the spell targets everything including your own party. Thus we are left with a spell that can actually shut down all of your spells whilst leaving a boss free to wail on you with their own arsenal.

Just stick with the Diminish spell. For the love of God.

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