User blog comment:Shadowblade777/Shadow (Assassin)/@comment-5299683-20130915051739/@comment-5299683-20130916024223

Yeah, Luka does get a lot of skills over the course of the game. But he doesn't have more than a dozen or so at any given time. By my count, the max he's ever had (so far) is four cursed sword skills (though they all upgrade over the course of the story), the four spirits, meditation and quadruple giga, for a total of ten skills. Eleven, if you want to count edging for some reason.

Shadow here's got 25 skills. If he were in Assassin's Creed, Darksiders or God of War, he'd be good to go. But in MGQ, where the heroes are deliberately underpowered, a guy with Shadow's skillset seems a wee bit out of place to me.