Originally Posted by Asdef91

Thanks for the reply! Just what I was looking for.

How do you 'put' a skill on an unit? I only know how to improve skills using rainbow skillblooms I'll grow old farming.

The girl I like best is actually Alpinia but she seems shitty and this will probably be the only 6* I'll ever get, so I'll just grab Dianthus.

If you go to the Equip/Lock screen, you can find a purple button on the bottom left saying "Learn Abilities".

That button takes you to a screen to learn some extra abilities for your girls. Taunt is a bloody expensive one at 7,500 Sun Medals (from the whaleship missions).
Speed Up/Down and ATK up on first turn are much more affordable, but slightly weaker as well. But if you can afford these three, you might as well get them anyway. They are useful, and use a different currence anyway, so it won't slow you down in some other time aquiring that taunt ability (I didn't get that yet either, so don't feel as if you're way behind. These abilities are new, and many players haven't found them yet)

To equip any abilities you bought, click on the "Equip Abilities" tab at the top.
Select the unit you want to add the abilities to (so probably click the "1" button below the tabs)
You should now see the icons of your girls with "Not Equiped" below them.
Click on a girl, then select an ability you learned (they're in a colored box, the ones in grey boxes are not learned yet), and you're done for that girl.
Repeat for all your girls in all your squads.

-Each girl can use only 1 ability at a time
-You can have multiple girls use the same ability at no extra cost
-Ability levels have not been added yet
-If you use different units with the same girls, you can assign different abilities for each unit. So Saffron could get an ATK buff in unit 1, but a DEF buff in unit 6.
-Behind the buttons for your unit numbers, there's also a button to go to your Whaleship teams. You can add these abilities there as well.

Oh, and Alpinia is pretty awesome in (raid)boss fights. While maps are easier with girls who hit multiple targets, bosses are easier with the single-target girls. And Alpinia will often be the longest to survive thanks to her amazing lifestealing skill. She's one of the girls who takes most noticable benefit from all jewelry, ampies and skill blooms.