Talk:Rance/@comment-24.240.73.216-20171212003828/@comment-27031093-20171212011052

He's already been confirmed not to have a Luck Skill in RWN. I guess they could change that in X, but there's no way they will.

Near the beginning of IX, Hubert tries to get Patton to reconsider leaving Rance in charge of the Outlaws by telling him that he's an unreliable dick. Patton points out that, regardless of Rance's personality, there's no denying the things he's accomplished are incredible. Hubert tries to counter by saying that most of it could've just been the result of luck, but Patton tells him that, after having seen Rance adventuring firsthand during VI, he's certain that Rance's accomplishments are entirely because of a combination of his obscene power and his tenacity allowing him to do anything he sets his mind to. While Hubert doesn't find this to be a sufficient answer, it shuts him up since he doesn't really have any evidence to argue against it.

Rance lucked out big time by being born with no level cap, but beyond that all of his accomplishments are due to his outrageous personality causing him to do things that no one else would even think of doing and refusing to back down until he does them. Even if he hadn't taken the quest to rescue Hikari back in 01, he still almost certainly would've ended up becoming a major power player on the Continent through one way or another just because of who he is.