Unique Skills (ユニークスキル, Yunīku Sukiru?) are «Sword Art Online» «Extra Skills» that are assigned to only a single player per skill.[1] All Unique Skills are evolutions of the «Meditation» skill at a proficiency of 500 or more.[2] According to Kayaba Akihiko (Heathcliff), only ten «Unique Skills» existed in Sword Art Online, in contrast to the unlimited number of other skills. By the end of Sword Art Online, only two players were known to have Unique Skills: Heathcliff had «Holy Sword» and Kirito had «Dual Blades».
Although Sword Skills were later implemented into ALfheim Online, certain suspicious conditional skills, including «Unique Skills», were removed from the system. It is rumored that about ten skills were removed during verification, which is coincidentally the amount of «Unique Skills» said to have been created.
List of Unique Skills[]
| English Name | Japanese Name | Acquisition | References |
|---|---|---|---|
| Battoujutsu | 抜刀術 (Battoujutsu) |
Unlocked by completing the «Katana» skill.[3][citation needed] | [4] |
| Darkness Blade | 暗黒剣 (Ankoku Ken) |
Unlocked by killing the most other players.[3][citation needed] | [4] |
| Dual Blades | 二刀流 (Nitouryū) |
Given to the player with the fastest reaction speed. | [5] |
| Holy Sword | 神聖剣 (Shinseiken) |
Given to the strongest player. | [citation needed] |
| Infinite Spear | 無限槍 (Mugen Yari) |
Unlocked by completing the «Two-Handed Lance» skill.[3][citation needed] | [4] |
| Kaishingeki | 会心撃 (Kaishingeki) |
Unlocked by accumulating a total of 10,000 True Critical Hits. | [2] |
| Shurikenjutsu | 手裏剣術 (Shurikenjutsu) |
Unlocked by completing the «Blade Throwing» skill.[3][citation needed] | [4] |
Trivia[]
- Apart from Dual Blades and Holy Sword, «Unique Skills» were supposed to be unlocked after players reached the 90th Floor.[4]
- Kayaba Akihiko stated that Dual Blades was given to the player with the fastest reaction time. The chosen player was supposed to be the hero that would face him at the top of the 100th Floor.
Reference[]
- ↑ Volume 1, Chapter 12
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Sugary Days Compilation Afterword.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Summary of a Q&A held by the author at an SAO panel at AX in 2014
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 "Popularity Contest Questions" with Kayaba Akihiko
- ↑ Volume 1, Chapter 22