Quote Originally Posted by JSmith12 View Post
Alright that clears it up. But that seems a bit limiting though understandable. Aren't there some cases where the unawakened skill is preferable to the awakened skill? I have noticed that some awakened skills take far longer to activate or are simply worse in a strategic and/or useful sense.

How would one decide whether a skill should awaken or not?
based on your own judgment of the skill. this requires aigis experience and some thinking about it, as well as how you use the unit. for example, black samurai hibari's SAW is not preferred due to having a long cooldown, since her normal skill is more or less sufficient. Kikyo (black shaman) is also usually kept at normal skill due to 1s toggle into healer instead of 5s initial time.

using the tenhou example of bashira, quadra shot may not be preferred due to x0.9 attack during skill. there's also the skill uptime (duration/total time before next use), where total time = duration + cooldown/reuse time