This was brought to my attention by Kalen87 from the Radiant Dawn + mod.

For nearly two decades, Vantage and Cancel have been listed with the wrong activation rates in Radiant Dawn. They’re listed as Speed%, when it should be Skill%.

The video above outlines the way I tested it.

I modified Edward’s stats so he has 99 Skill, 0 in everything else, neutral Biorhythm and the Vantage and Cancel skills. In every relevant battle, he triggered those skills. But when I gave him 99 Speed instead, those skills stopped working.

Just in case, Adept is Speed% as originally listed.

Also, thanks to Vicious Sal for digging through the game code to confirm my findings.

Now the question becomes, how did this mistake happen? It’s hard to pinpoint because it’s been so long. But there’s probably two key factors.

One, I need to find them again, but from what I remember, the guidebooks listed those two skills as being Speed%. Since nobody knew how to hack skills back then, nobody thought to question the guidebooks.

Two, most characters with high Speed also have high Skill. So most players wouldn’t really notice the difference. You’d need to use someone like Haar who has high Skill but low Speed.