Talk:Sky Ninja, Yamigarasu/@comment-6102960-20140630195913/@comment-13275021-20140630221950

And now that I'm off work, I will:

You can see that Bushiroad has a formula for a monster's stats. Each critical point a monster has is worth -3000 to power or defense. For instance, compare Thousand Rapier Dragon (5000/2/1000, or 5000+6000+1000=12000) to Double Sword Dragon (5000/1/4000, or 5000+3000+4000=12000). You can see that they transferred one critical from Thousand Rapier to Double Sword's defensive stats.

We can also see from this that Dragon World size 1s have a total of 12000 to allocate between power/critical/defense. Look at Bear-Trap Fang Dragon (4000/2/2000, or 4000+6000+2000=12000) and Systemic Dagger Dragon (3000/2/3000, or 3000+6000+3000=12000), etc. The only exception for vanillas is Bronze Shield Dragon (2000/1/6000, or 2000+3000+6000=11000), probably because his defense is higher than the normal maximum for a size 1. (Flame Fairy Dragon, Tialvette from Ancient World, with higher than average 6000 power for a size 1, has the same penelty added to his stats.)

So, we can prove with this that a free Move ability is costed at -2000 to overall stats. Look at Blade Wing Dragon, with 2000/2/2000 (or 2000+6000+2000=10000), 2000 short of the normal 12000.

For more proof, look at Katana World itself. Vanilla size 1s have a total stat of 11000, 1000 short of the norm for Dragon World. (Magic World also has the same stat for its size 1s.) Stealth Ninja, Kirikarure Saizo is 2000/2/3000 (or 2000+6000+3000=11000), Sea-splitting Irukamaru is 3000/2/2000 (or 3000+6000+2000=11000), Armed Priest Soldier, Benkei is 4000/1/4000 (or 4000+3000+4000=11000), etc.

From that, we see that Accelerate Ninja, Hayate (2000/2/1000, or 2000+6000+1000=9000) is 2000 short of vanilla stats, showing that free Move is costed at -2000 from vanilla stats.

So, if we compare Sniping Ninja, Yoichi (2000/1/5000, or 2000+3000+5000=10000), who is 1000 short compared to the vanilla 11000 standard (the cost of his "sniping" skill is 1000 from stats, apparently), then Sky Ninja, Yamigarasu is costed fairly as a 4000/1/1000 (or 4000+3000+1000=8000), since 1000 is removed because of his "sniping" skill, and an additional 2000 is removed for his Move skill.

Wow, that took longer to prove than I thought. I hope my wall of text doesn't fry any brains. xD