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* ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' has this going with most of the [[Guest Star Party Member]]s. Once you start revisiting all of the worlds, the only really useful ones are [[Final Fantasy X|Auron]] and [[The Nightmare Before Christmas|Jack Skellington]].
** [[Mulan]] is the [[Magikarp Power|exact opposite]]. When you first visit her land she's disguised as Ping. Ping has poor attacks, fumbles a lot and is generally a detriment (but required to have on your party). However, later she drops the disguise and becomes one of the better fighters.
* ''[[Golden Sun]]'' series has the Seer class, obtained by giving Jupiter adepts with Venus Djinn. While it has great stats, is easy to put a character in, and learns its psynergy (spells) quickly and gets healing psynergy that work with its great speed and PP pool, by midgame the psynergy it learned quickly is terrible and it doesn't get anything better (Seer's highest hitting offensive ability has a power of 110, others get a max around 190 while Cure quickly loses to multiheal psynergy).
* ''[[Golden Sun]]: The Lost Age'' has Piers, who joins the party at a much higher level, with good stats, several very powerful attacks, and decent healing spells, but has the lowest EXP progression in both games. Additionally, he has the stats of a physical attacker, but is stuck in the more mage-y classes, while you get a better healer near the end of the game, at which point he's basically just there for backup. (unless you really like looking at his skirt-clad hairy legs)
** ''[[Golden Sun: Dark Dawn]]'' has a straight and intentional version of this; in the very first dungeon, two heroes from the first [[Golden Sun]] join your party. They're AI controlled, but practically indestructable and deal massive damage (compared to your own characters at least), though they may not attack at all against lesser enemies. After the first dungeon, they kick you out of the house to fend for yourselves.
* ''[[Eternal Sonata]]'' has Viola, who starts out massively stronger than the rest of your group at that point, and can heal all units near fully unlike other characters. This plus the ability to do even larger damage by headshotting enemies from a large distance make her the best unit for quite a while. Once Harmony Chains starts appearing though, she has lost much of her massive damage potential, and her healing spell is near useless. Worse in the [[PlayStation 3]] version, where her speed growth is massively nerfed and she is now only faster than Jazz, who is the tank character. The Encore mode makes her much less useful due to Harmony chains being available Much earlier. Thanks to the Experience Leak system, she doesn't really hurt your other characters that much though.
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