YMMV / The Banner Saga 3

• Game-Breaker: Much more prominent in this title due to the higher character levels, new abilities, and the addition of Heroic Titles and Talents, which can make up some truly potent combinations.
  • Alette keeps her Overwatch ability from the second game, which allows her to shoot any enemy that walks into her bow's range. This time around, though, she can take up the Bloodletter title, which causes the target to bleed up to 3 strength damages for several turns. This pretty much allows her to bleed out approaching enemies before they could even land a blow.
  • Oli's Axe Storm ability can now be paired with the Death's Messenger title, giving a massive damage increase with each subsequent hit. When combined with items and talents that increase his hit probability, this allows him to one-shot pretty much any enemy in the game.
  • Apostate, a Dredge Stonesinger who joins your party, comes with a spell called Umbrage. It grants your other characters a strength boost in exchange for stripping away some of their armour, turning them into powerful Glass Cannons that could start hacking away at the enemy for massive damage from the get-go, ignoring armour altogether. It's also a nifty healing spell for your injured heroes.
  • Juno is a gamebreaker all onto herself. Her ability to cause enemies to attacks each other allows you to use their strongest fighters against thems, and her ability to come back to life with full strength and willpower has unlimited uses - so as long as you have her and at least one more character who you can keep away from enemies, you simply cannot lose.
• Moral Event Horizon: Bolverk crosses it when he attempts to murder Folka, which he may succeed in depending on player choice. At that point, it's obvious that whatever code of honor he had in the second game died when the Serpent healed him and all that remains is a rabid beast that Iver needs to put down.