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This is especially important to encourage diversity in a game with loads of characters and different types to choose from without making all the characters just flat-out clones of each other. Not to mention from a development standpoint this is often hard to do and needs to be ''constantly'' readjusted to make sure players don't just spam the same character(s) and make almost every match a [[Mirror Match]].

 

 

== [[Driving Game]] ==

** ''[[Street Fighter]]'' has a pretty big power gap between the low-end and high-end characters too (Akuma is capable of sinking an entire island and sending people to Hell, for example), but at least the weakest characters in those games are still stronger than the average human!

*** In game, however, there's really not all that much of a balance gap (though occasionally you get some accidentally broken characters, such as Guile in ''[[Street Fighter II (Video Game)|Street Fighter II]]'' and his mystical "Magic Throw" and "handcuffs" glitches, not to mention his insane range and priority; Zangief could also apply, with his extremely powerful throws). Akuma, for instance, is actually fairly fragile, taking the most damage of any of the characters in most of the games where he's a standard character. This is especially prevalent in games such as [[Tekken]], where tournament play is the general focus: In [[Tekken Tag Tournament]], while Ogre and True Ogre might be bosses of death, they're still balanced enough that you can generally beat them with anyone you know how to use correctly. The only exceptions to balance appear at the lower levels of skill, where certain characters are easier to use than others (try using Guile as a beginning player, without a good grasp of charging; and after THAT, you need to learn how to do jump in combos in order to really use him).

* ''[[Marvel vs. Capcom]]'': On one side, you have a [[Megaman Legends|Servbot]], and on the other, you have [[The Hulk]]. Not to mention guys like Blackheart and Shuma-Gorath.

* In the ''[[Deadliest Warrior]]'' game, you have Guerillas (e.g. Ninja and Apache) who can't get into a direct fight and have to use their agility to survive, Berserkers (e.g. Pirate and Viking) who have a deadly offense, but less in the way of defense, and Balanced fighters (e.g. Knight and Spartan) who can dish out a lot of damage and take it, but won't move very quickly.

 

* In most [[FPS]] games with class systems, such as ''[[Battlefield Heroes]]'', sneakier and faster classes will be weaker than slower, more brutish classes (Heroes's Commando to its Gunner, and ''[[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]]'''s Scout and Heavy, for instance), with classes in between (Both BF Heroes's and TF2's Soldier, arguably.)

** ''[[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]]'' in particular seems so have a class for every one of these types. The Soldier is the [[Jack of All Stats]], the Scout is the [[Fragile Speedster]], the Heavy is the [[Mighty Glacier]], the Engineer is the [[Stone Wall]], the Sniper and Spy are [[Glass Cannon|Glass Cannons]], the Medic is the [[Squishy Wizard]] and Demoman and Pyro are both [[Lightning Bruiser]]. Pyro's weakness is limited range while Demo's weapons are hard to master.

 

* ''[[Monday Night Combat]]'''s six classes are pretty evenly distributed. The Assault is the [[Jack of All Stats]], being mobile but not too mobile, powerful but not too powerful, etc. The Tank is the [[Mighty Glacier]], existing to slowly plod his way through the level to the enemy base and then break stuff, which he does incredibly well. The Support is the [[Squishy Wizard]], being a combination [[The Engineer|engineer]] and [[The Medic|medic]] with some [[The Turret Master|turret and bot buffs]] thrown in. The Assassin is the [[Fragile Speedster]], having a frightening run speed and an absolutely ''brutal'' backstab attack. The Gunner is the [[Stone Wall]], designed to shred enemy players that wander too close. Finally, the Sniper is the [[Glass Cannon]], built around picking off enemies before they get into attacking range.

 

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