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* Many Tactical RPGs features characters that can be grown to truly terrifying strength through delayed promotion—for example, Bleu from ''[[Shining Force]]'' and quite a few characters in the ''[[Fire Emblem]]'' series.

** Those characters from [[Fire Emblem]] are commonly referred as 'The Est', a character with obnoxiously high stat development, but joins [[Can't Catch Up|late game]] at a very [[Magikarp Power|low level]] relative to the game's progress curve. Est is well-known for not only being the first character with these characteristics, but also because this is true of her in ''all five games she appears in (including the two remakes of the original game)''. Ests are loved by elite tweakers for the fact that they are one of the few characters in the games that can reasonably Cap (or nearly Cap) most of their stats without the need of [[Rare Candy|Stat-Up]] items before reaching the max level promoted.

* ''[[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.

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