The Harpooner. This is a 3/4 joke, 1/4 serious suggestion 
: A combination of several of the skills currently in the running for the 20th skill:The lemming throws a modern-day whaling harpoon with a detonating end piece. This is a long, thin projectile that causes an explosion when it hits and has a rope attached to it.
- The shape of the harpoon would be identical to the spear of the
Spear Thrower and could therefore be used as such.
- The detonation on impact creates a Bomber crater. This and the arc of motion would be that of a
Mortar.- Attached to the harpoon is a rope. This could serve as a surrogate Roper, but with a fixed arc - and thus potentially serve as a
downward Builder.-
If you exceed the maximum length of the rope, the rope will tear, leaving behind just the harpoon with the detonating end piece.
Now you have a genuine Mortar and Spear Thrower at once! This projectile without the rope is going to continue on its parabolic trajectory until it hits terrain.
- If you shoot up into the ceiling, with thin-enough terrain, you can find
Laser-Blaster-like applications.
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The Harpooner can kill Zombies.I don't know, maybe this would be a valid compromise for a lot of people who are currently espousing either the Spear Thrower, the Mortar, the Laser Blaster, or a downward Builder?
It won't be a stand-in for the Slider, but it could fullfil a lot of these other purposes... while still being logically consistent (after all, these modern whaling harpoons with detonating end pieces do exist, unfortunately).
