The Least Useful Assassin's Creed Skills

The Assassin's Creed video-game series has an underlying story focused on a modern-day character named Desmond, who experiences the lives of History's greatest Assassin's through the Animus.


Through the Bleeding Effect, he gains a measure of their abilities to train himself to become an Assassin like them. The problem is, they lived between hundreds and thousands of years ago. Some of those skills have no place in the modern world. Most notably:
The Leap of Faith:

Every single Assassin performs the same stunt, which involves leaping off of tall buildings and falling hundreds of feet into four feet of hay, because physics be damned. Hay, apparently, is magic. There is, however, a decisive lack of hay in today's modern world. The equivalent would be a steel dumpster full of syringes and dirty diapers, and I doubt Desmond would willing jump into one of those. Also, the Leap of Faith isn't exactly a skill. It's falling. That's a skill everyone has.
Tomahawks:

Tomahawks are BADASS. They're one of the most effective ways to tell someone how badly they've fucked up. They're also not standard issue in today's modern world, even if you're 1/32 Native.
Other Weapons:

About 20% of the Assassin's Creed games are sword fights. About 100% of today's modern fights with soldiers and police involve guns. There was a scene at the end of Assassin's Creed II where Desmond escapes and all the guards come at him with collapsible batons. That was the one and only lucky break he's ever likely going to have and he still doesn't have a sword to fight with. He's an Assassin in training and the best he has in the hidden blade. He doesn't even carry a pocket knife to defend himself. Also: Why do modern Templar guards only have batons? They work for the most evil corporation in the World, which is worth billions and controls every level of government. Why wouldn't they have guns? Desmond, on the other hand, is working for the Assassins, who use a plethora of weapons over the ages to carry out assassinations, from knives, to poison, to crossbows and rifles. He's basically their Golden Child. He's the Assassin that's going to save the world. All they give him is the hidden blade. They couldn't find him a gun, which he'd be more familiar with coming of age in the 21st Century. About 100% of the lives he has to take are in defense of his own, because he has the entire order of Templars looking for him. He doesn't need a stealth weapon.