User blog comment:Fullmetal Renkinjutsushi/Did Satou waste some of his skill points ?/@comment-32598341-20200207122223/@comment-10330822-20200208061300

That, I don't know about. Because it's bizzare skills that he maxes on a whim that turn around and become so useful later. For example, his ventriloquist he maxed just so he could entertain Pochi and Tama. And later it proved critical in beating Goblin Demon Lord.

To be honest, even ignoring his massive level-up to 3100, he still had well over half of his initial skill points from when he went to 310. So to be honest, there were still plenty of points to min max in different areas if need be. You keep saying "he could have been more OP", that goes without saying, because he didn't even use all of his skills points, even before he went to level 3100. After that, having literally 95% of his skill points, you really don't have any place saying he's "wasted" skill points when he literally has 10s of thousands of skill points, and you complain about using 10 on coaching, come on man, that makes no sense on your part.

It's just, when you have so many skill points and have access to so many skills and have such an easy time getting new ones, it makes it hard to decide "Ok, this is a useful skill" if you've never used it. I mean, even combat skills are questionably helpful, because Satou's base stats are so buffed that he literally can flick a rock and crits a greater demon for like 80% health. In short, anything in that world besides the Demon Lords or anything stronger than them is a literal joke. Based on the comparison with the greater demon, Satou probably could have punched a demon lord to death with his bare hands with no extra skills. Hell, you even see him admit that the demon lords aren't even that strong, its just their unique skills are tricky so you need to be careful.

10 points maybe critical when you have only 20 or 30 points, but when you have 3100? 31000? It's ridiculous saying he needs to be frugale with the points when they are so insignificant, comparitively. How rich due you need to be before a $100 purchase isn't a waste of money? A hundred thousand? A Million? Satou using 10 points is like you spending $7 on dinner. Sure their are probably more efficient things to use that money on, but the amount is so insignificant its not even worth discussing. You'd have a point if he was only like Level 50-60, but Level 310? Level 3100? He literally could load up coahing 100x over and still have tens of thousands of skill points.