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* [[Phantasy Star Universe]] has the Kagajibari. Boss of the mission [[Meaningful Name|"Rainbow Beast"]], he switches element to whatever element just hit him. He casts spells accordingly. His default type is [[Light Is Not Good|Light]], so one would cast dark spells at him...[[Too Dumb to Live|right?]]. If you cast dark spells at him, he casts [[One-Hit Kill|Megid]] at you.
** The [[Silicon-Based Life|Master Stone]] switches elements ''every turn'', in addition to its normal attacks. The best way to deal with the Stone is to [[Anti-Magic|curse]] it, which not only locks it in its current form but also limits it to a relatively weak physical attack.
* The Barroth of ''[[Monster Hunter]] Tri'' is weak against water while covered in mud, and weak against fire when not. He flings his mud off by shaking in one of his attacks, and sometimes rolls in mud to cover himself back up. You generally just have to pick either a fire or a water element weapon and try to attack just parts that are covered/uncovered, but Bowgunners can bring both Water and Fire shots.▼
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=== Adventure Game ===
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=== First-Person Shooter ===
=== Hack and Slash ===
* The final boss of ''[[Castle Crashers]]'' uses this tactic in one of several forms. However, he also not only transfers the damage the wrong attack did to you, he also makes it harder for the attack that would do the proper damage hard to do.▼
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=== Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game ===
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=== Platform Game ===
* The [[Final Boss]] of ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (2006 video game)||Sonic the Hedgehog 2006]]'' forces you to switch hedgehogs when it stops taking damage from high speed rams/chaos spears/telekinetic rocks. There is always a set order of which hedgehog can damage him: Silver, then Shadow, then Sonic.▼
** Metal Madness, the penultimate boss from ''[[Sonic Heroes]]'' has this as well.▼
* In ''[[Kirby 64 The Crystal Shards]]'', Miracle Matter has a form mimicking each of Kirby's copy abilities in that game, and each form is only vulnerable to its own type of damage, whether by spitting back its projectiles or using the ability copied from those projectiles. Its intermediary form is completely invulnerable but also doesn't move or attack.▼
=== Puzzle Game ===
=== Racing Game ===
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* The Tyrant Dragon from ''[[Breath of Fire]] 4'' switches between earth, wind, and water every turn.
* In ''[[Mega Man X Command Mission]]'', Incentas had the ability to rotate his element. And his head.
* ''[[Baten Kaitos]]''' final boss followed this trope. Though, it showed you what element he was changing into with Seal of Entropy, and by displaying the game's icon for the element slide over his limbs, into his chest, you only have a "deck" of cards that explain your weapon usage. So you can't really specialize in all elements, or choose any particular attack that would defeat his element quickly, but instead have each of your team special in three or four elements elements (Chrono or Wind, Fire or Water, Light or Dark) or pack yourself full of non-element based cards and drag the fight out for a good hour or so.▼
** It's not as hard as it sounds. Three of your party members automatically specialize in those element pairings by default due to their unique cards, attacking him with other elements will still deal damage, and he only starts changing elements after a few turns; if you know what you're doing and luck is with you, you can exploit his weakness to Light and halve his health in the first few turns.▼
=== Shoot'Em Up ===
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* The final boss of ''[[Magical Starsign]]'' changes its own weakness.
* The [[Final Boss]] of the first ''[[Overlord]]'' game does this every so often. The color of his shield matches that of the Minion type needed to break through it.
▲* The final boss of ''[[Castle Crashers]]'' uses this tactic in one of several forms. However, he also not only transfers the damage the wrong attack did to you, he also makes it harder for the attack that would do the proper damage hard to do.
▲* The [[Final Boss]] of ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (2006 video game)||Sonic the Hedgehog 2006]]'' forces you to switch hedgehogs when it stops taking damage from high speed rams/chaos spears/telekinetic rocks. There is always a set order of which hedgehog can damage him: Silver, then Shadow, then Sonic.
▲** Metal Madness, the penultimate boss from ''[[Sonic Heroes]]'' has this as well.
▲* In ''[[Kirby 64 The Crystal Shards]]'', Miracle Matter has a form mimicking each of Kirby's copy abilities in that game, and each form is only vulnerable to its own type of damage, whether by spitting back its projectiles or using the ability copied from those projectiles. Its intermediary form is completely invulnerable but also doesn't move or attack.
▲* ''[[Baten Kaitos]]''' final boss followed this trope. Though, it showed you what element he was changing into with Seal of Entropy, and by displaying the game's icon for the element slide over his limbs, into his chest, you only have a "deck" of cards that explain your weapon usage. So you can't really specialize in all elements, or choose any particular attack that would defeat his element quickly, but instead have each of your team special in three or four elements elements (Chrono or Wind, Fire or Water, Light or Dark) or pack yourself full of non-element based cards and drag the fight out for a good hour or so.
▲** It's not as hard as it sounds. Three of your party members automatically specialize in those element pairings by default due to their unique cards, attacking him with other elements will still deal damage, and he only starts changing elements after a few turns; if you know what you're doing and luck is with you, you can exploit his weakness to Light and halve his health in the first few turns.
* Inverted in ''[[Arcana]]'', where the elemental spirits on your side each possess a cheap spell for doing this to ''your party''.
* [[Our Mermaids Are Different|Mermaid]], a guardian of Treasure Tower in ''[[Dubloon]]'' does this. Sometimes she can change the weakness ''twice in a row'', [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard|and sometimes right before you attack]].
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** The One Sin makes a gameplay appearance in [[.hack GU|.hack//G.U. Reminisce]]. True to its name, it can only be hurt by elements opposite of its color, and even then, you need to defeat its two shields before it momentarily opens up to reveal the core. An even nastier variant, The One Godeater, appears in .hack//G.U. Redemption. Now, it only responds to either Darkness or Light spell. This narrows down to two elements, but the boss itself is [[Harder Than Hard|very, very hard]] even with that advantage.
* The [[Final Boss]] of ''[[Freedom Force]] vs. the 3rd Reich'', which leads to the possibility of [[Reality Warper|turning the most powerful being on Earth]] [[Weaksauce Weakness|into a vase]] [[It Makes Sense in Context|of flowers]].
▲* The Barroth of ''[[Monster Hunter]] Tri'' is weak against water while covered in mud, and weak against fire when not. He flings his mud off by shaking in one of his attacks, and sometimes rolls in mud to cover himself back up. You generally just have to pick either a fire or a water element weapon and try to attack just parts that are covered/uncovered, but Bowgunners can bring both Water and Fire shots.
* The [[Final Boss]] of ''[[Epic Battle Fantasy]] 3'' does this. It takes him a ''long'' time to change, though, and once he's been scanned once you don't need to scan him again.
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