Technique

Techniques are the mind's way of using Abilities and Skills for its own purposes and involves both fighting style and ability application. Techniques themselves are usually within the range of the body's capabilities without modification and come from repeated practice, movement, and muscle memory (which is seasoning/experience for yoki users). This can be achieved either through long practice with newfound skills, extensive practice in the Dark Abyss, or through paying seasoning in Grace's case. Techniques are what makes a being dangerous, as they can apply the being's skills and ability to an applicable degree. It appears impossible for a being to learn a technique before learning its associated skill first. Alice, Helios and Roxanne have notably been able to copy techniques with Roxanne and Helios being able to copy Skills as well. Alice appears capable of copying fighting style/technique, which involves no prior skills to use, although the full extent of her ability may be far more. 
The skill/combat ability of a being is generally derived from the strength of its techniques, as the being's Ability or Skills by themselves cannot be used in any useful way. Each skill can have more than one technique associated with it, and likely would have at least one for proper use, unless the associated skill was passive. This suggests that almost every being will always have more techniques than skills. 
Some techniques:
* Snake Style
* Holy Rabonian Style
* Improvisation (a technique defined by a lack of a concrete technique), can't be copied due to not really existing
* Gloria's 3 stages of invisibility
* Dust Eater/Wind Eater
* Praying Sword
* Deborah's Hornet Hands fighting technique
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