Skill

are the embodiment of a Servant's various abilities and characteristics. They are divided into two main categories: or , which are typically connected to the Servant's Class, and , which reflect abilities or anecdotes connected to the life and legend of the Servant themselves.
Certain Skills, such as Divinity, have been treated as both Class and Personal Skills depending on the work and occasionally between different materials for the same work.
==Class Skills==
Each Class is granted certain Skills upon summoning, particularly within the Holy Grail War system. They generally reflect abilities that the Heroic Spirit had in life, but they will not always have had the corresponding Skills. Even if the Servant did not have the abilities in life, they will still receive a lower ranked version of the Skill automatically if they fit the Class. Conversely, it is possible for a Servant of a different Class to gain any of these Skills as Personal Skills, as long as they reflect the abilities that they had in life.
Class 	Associated Skill(s)
Saber 	Magic ResistanceRiding
Archer 	Magic ResistanceIndependent Action
Lancer 	Magic Resistance
Rider 	RidingMagic Resistance
Caster 	Item ConstructionTerritory Creation
Assassin 	Presence Concealment
Berserker	Mad Enhancement
Ruler 	Magic ResistanceGod's ResolutionTrue Name Discernment
Avenger 	AvengerOblivion CorrectionSelf-Replenishment (Mana)
Foreigner	Existence Outside the Domain
Saver 	CharismaCounter Hero
Shielder 	Magic ResistanceRidingSelf-Field Defense
Watcher 	Magic ResistanceTerritory Infringement
Beast 	Authority of the BeastIndependent Manifestation
Faker 	Independent ActionCamouflage
Voyager 	Independent NavigationContact with Civilization
Class Skills can be lost due to another Skill or Noble Phantasm of the Servant, or due to the Heroic Spirit's nature. The Skill Distortion, for example, forces a Class Change upon a Servant, granting them a Class Skill from the new Class in exchange for downgrading a Class Skill of the previous one. While not a Class Skill, the Personal Skill Watcher "represents the Watcher class' special contract status towards the Master."
==Personal Skill==
Personal Skills reflect the abilities a Heroic Spirit had in life and their personal legends. As they are not strictly symbols of Heroic Spirits to the same extent as Noble Phantasms, there are many cases of Heroic Spirits having the same Skill, such as the highly universal Battle Continuation.
==id_es==
In Fate/Extra CCC, are typically special, inborn Skills possessed by BB's Alter Egos from the moment of their creation. They are "cheat skills" resulting from illegal modification through morphing and reinforcing their existing abilities, making most of them Skills that normal Servants do not possess. They are the exposure of an individual's psyche rather than the abilities of the body and likened to fetishism.
Mecha Eli-chan and Mecha Eli-chan MkII are the first Servants outside of the Sakura Five to be shown with id_es.
==In Fate/Grand Order==
The game system of Fate/Grand Order (and subsequently Fate/Grand Order Arcade) classifies skills that are always active as Class Skills and skills that can be activated at any time by the player as Personal Skills. The result is that some inherently Personal Skills are treated as Class Skills, and vice-versa. The English localization labels them "Active" and "Passive" Skills.
Some Noble Phantasms are also treated as Skills, which is occasionally explained as them lacking the power of a True Name release.
Originally, Fate/Grand Order had Servants largely share from a pool of generic Skills, especially in regards to Class Skills, as had been the case with previous Fate works. The few truly were indicated as such in character profiles. Later versions of the game began to introduce much more idiosyncratic Skills for each Servant, either upon release or through Strengthening Quests that convert one Skill into another or increase the Rank of a Skill. Furthermore, phrasing regarding the aforementioned "unique Skills" was removed by the time relevant Servant profiles were published in Material books, although they remain unchanged in-game.
==List of Skills==
==References==
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