SPECIAL SKILLS INTRODUCTION

Special Skills are what makes Japanese baseball games so special. If you can learn these it makes the game so much better! Each player has their own personality and if you're not familiar with the Japanese NPB players you can use special skills as a guide on how to use them. For example if a player has the "Strikeout" skill you should do everything possible to not get behind with 2 strikes otherwise his contact will signifigantly decrease.

When you view a player's profile, you can see his good special skills in blue rectangles and his bad special skills in pink rectangles. Most skills are listed on the first tab of a players profile, but if you click the right shoulder button twice to go to tab #4 you may see a few more miscellaneous ones like the CPU player tendencies (Green skills) which determine how the CPU will use this player. You can see an example of the profiles here:

Some skills can have a few different levels, and 3 is always the normal level. For example, if you have Chance 4, that means you have a small boost when runners are in scoring position. If you have 5, that's even better. However, if you have Chance 2, that's a slight decrease in your power and contact, and Chance 1 is really bad.