Ace
Ace adjective - Having or showing exceptional knowledge, experience, or skill in a field of endeavor.
Usage example: an ace computer programmer
Unable
Unable adjective - Lacking qualities (as knowledge, skill, or ability) required to do a job.
Usage example: a celebrated author of serious plays, he turned out to be a particularly unable writer of comedies
Both words in one sentence
- Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth: Edgeworth uncovers Shelly de Killer in case one but is unable to find out who hired him before he escapes.
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In City of Reality, Action Girl AV leaps in front of a bullet intended for The Ace, Todo, after the latter is unable to comprehend the gritty nature of Magic World and defies a mugger.
Source: Taking the Bullet -
Maya Fey from Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney suffers an inversion of this trope at the end of the first game, where she finds herself unable to use her channeling abilities due to a lack of practice.
Source: Power Incontinence
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