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Unless you aren't sure how to acquire their best stuff, since this character doesn't "naturally" level up in a normal intuitive way. Then you're stuck with someone rather lame without a [[Guide Dang It|strategy guide]].

 

 

 

Compare [[Lethal Joke Character]]. Contrast [[Parabolic Power Curve]].

 

 

**** For at least one (defensive) skill, it was necessary to use a Manipulate materia so that the ability would be cast on the party instead of the monsters.

** Then later, Sarda uses a spell on Black Mage that he calls "a simple 'rewrite reality according to your whim' spell." Black Mage learns it, casts it...and it turns out its actually a "rewrite reality according to ''Sarda's'' whim" spell.

* ''[[Fallout 3]]'' can be cracked and broken like an egg with careful stat and equipment choices. Start a character with 9 INT and then go ''immediately'' to Rivet City to pick up the INT Bobblehead from Dr. Li. You now have maxed INT and are at level 2. INT directly affects how many skill points you get per level, at a rate of 2xInt, plus there is a Perk that increases this amount. In the space of four or five levels - an incredibly short time, as the first handfuls of levels are really easy to get - you can have Sneak and Small Guns maxed at 100, by which point you can also have picked up Lincoln's Repeater and a Dart Gun and if you have the DLC, the Chinese Stealth Suit. Congratulations, you are now a God of Death and you haven't even started the story quests. As you progress, you can pick up several perks that increase VATS accuracy, and VATS headshot accuracy. By this point, there is no longer any kind of difficulty curve and we have not reached level 20. At level 20, there is a perk called Grim Reaper's Sprint. This perk refunds all your AP, which is used in VATS, if you got any kills while in VATS. Adding all of this up, you now can effectively eradicate all life on the planet in one uninterrupted VATS chain of head-popping magnum rounds.

**** The only drawback to this is that the Lincoln's Repeater - the strongest small arms weapon in the game and repaired with the ubiquitous Hunting Rifles you will find literally everywhere and on everything - uses relatively rare and expensive Magnum Rounds. DLC The Pitt offers an easy out - an ammo press that can convert unused ammo into whatever bullets you want - otherwise, all you really need to do is memorize which vendors sell magnum rounds and how long it takes for them to restock.

** A specific example in the game would be the [[Love Freak]], Flonne. Leveling up normally, you either end up with a mage with very few spells, or a character with incredibly slow weapon mastery. Using the Master/Apprentice system properly, however, she can become a [[Disc One Nuke]].

** ''[[Phantom Brave]]'' gets special mention, because dang it, you can obliterate people with a level 3000 starfish. A STARFISH. Along with other great items.

** Add to that his ''absurd'' HP score, 50% chance of counterattack and the attack formation's counterattack boost and ''75%'' attack boost, and you have a [[Game Breaker|true monster]]

** Also bear in mind that he starts at level 1, which is another reason many ignore him, but means that he can get boosts to stats from masters for every levelup.

** The best example of this is Dak'kon, who, when acquired, can give you lessons in his personal philosophy. If your intelligence and wisdom stats are high enough, however, ''you'' can give ''him'' lessons in his philosophy and remove his doubts in it, resulting in a significant stat boost for him.

*** An extension of the above is the Missile of Patience, a first level spell that's so useless you definitely won't waste time memorizing... Then, after a certain experience level, the Missile of Patience suddenly becomes an awesome weapon of mass destruction. Of course, by that time most other first level spells don't really cut it, and most players miss it altogether.

** In the sequel it's generally worth not leveling up your non-Jedi non-droid non-wookie followers since all but one of them can become Jedi and not leveling them up means that they get more Jedi levels (which are generally better than their initial class)

*** The same can be done in the first game to the player character. Through normal playing, one would become a Jedi at or around level 8 if they level whenever they can. By holding these off and being very careful and dependent on your companions, one can instead become a Jedi at level 3.

* ''[[Pokémon]]'' can learn otherwise-inaccessible moves through breeding, resulting in multiple "chain breedings" in order to get a mon that knows a certain move.

** And if the player wants to put the effort into it, they can breed for good IVs. This involves several generations of breeding, and will probably require some inbreeding. [[Guide Dang It|And frequent references to a guide]].

** Pokemon also have invisible "Effort Values", very small stat boosts given by each species when defeated. Normally a pokemon's EVs will be all over the place because it knocks out lots of different species as you battle trainers with it. With some planning (rather, "grinding the same species of pokemon in the wild for a few hours",) these boosts can add up to produce about the same effects as good breeding.

** And then you can combine all of the methods above, resulting in a pokemon with about 40% better stats than normal which also knows incredibly rare moves. It also comes in handy for those that participate in [[Tournament Play]], which allows Pokemon in lower-level tournaments to use moves normally not available to them.

** Note that this is very important in game-play. Let's just say if that the player does ''not'' do this, he's in for a [[Nintendo Hard|rough ride]].

* In the [[Game Gear]] game ''[[Crystal Warriors]]'', Healers have very weak melee stats through level 8; get one to level 9 (the max) and suddenly he gains massive amounts of attack, defense, and hit points, becoming the most powerful melee unit in the game.

** In the later games, also add the ability to tweak individual parts to have more power, less weight, more ammo, etc.

*** This trope is essentially the point of the series, perhaps even more-so than fighting mecha.

** The same goes for other mecha battles such as ''Chrome Hounds'' and ''Phantom Crash''.

* The ''[[Quest for Glory]]'' games were built upon this. The games allowed one to carry over ones save (across 5 games no less!), keeping not just stats but abilities and spells too including the hidden (in the first few games that it appeared in) class, the Paladin. However, there were few other restrictions to what skills and such a player could gain or achieve; most notably, only a wizard could get a wizard's staff. Thus, by starting at the first adventure and playing all the way through to the last, a player could be a paladin with a magical sword and additional abilities... who was an elite member of the Thieves Guild, a powerful archmage, and a exceptionally powerful fighter. Being a guy in plate mail sneaking around doing acrobatics while stabbing the archvillain and chucking fireballs seems more suitable to anime than a game based off medieval Europe and Africa.

* In the world of hyper-realistic racing simulators, tuning your car is everything. All allow you to do things like adjust almost every parameter of your suspension, mess around with your gear ratios, and the really hardcore ones let you even do the things such ''change the size of your radiator or add tape to your grill to control aerodynamics.''. Even the amount of fuel you have is important, as less will mean you have a lighter car and will be faster and handle better. But, if you have more fuel, you can go longer before pitting and pass cars who have to pit more often....and that's just one factor.

* ''[[Persona 3]]'': With a bit of effort, Lilim can be fused with all four basic elemental spells, making her pretty much the only Persona you'll need to fight with until level 20 or so. Having no elemental weaknesses and a reasonably high magic stat is the icing on the cake.

 

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