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{{quote|''"My intricate style will confound and destroy you! [[Standard Status Effects|Confusion, sleep, poison]]... Prepare to be the victim of my sinister techniques!"''|'''Koga''', ''[[Pokémon Gold and Silver|Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver]]''}}
The [[Glass Cannon]] uses powerful attacks to quickly blow his enemies to smithereens, but the '''Gradual Grinder''' sneers at such a lack of patience. Instead, the Gradual Grinder prefers to use [[Death By a Thousand Cuts|abilities that deal damage over time, steadily wearing his enemies down]], leaving them too crippled to be much of a threat to him - which is good, because typically he [[Squishy Wizard|isn't much tougher]] than the [[Glass Cannon]]. (though [[Stone Wall]]/[[Fragile Speedster]] Grinders are not unheard of)
Most commonly, Gradual Grinders are spellcasters who specialize in curses, hexes, or other [[Standard Status Effects]]. Some [[Fragile Speedster|Roguish]] characters also fight like this, poisoning or literally bleeding their foes to death while they nimbly dodge their increasingly feeble counter-attacks. More rarely, some heavily-armed and -armored fighters prefer to defeat their foes through blood loss, or debilitating spells if they are [[Magic Knight]]s.
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See also the Mezzer entry in [[An Adventurer Is You]]. Has nothing to do with [[Level Grinding]].
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* In ''[[Borderlands]]'', the elemental weapons/special attacks aside from the explosive one allow you to do this. While they usually do less damage than a normal gun, they can usually slowly electrocute, corrode, or burn an enemy away, and can sometimes be more effective when dealing with a lot of enemies, particularly armored ones. However, enemies using elemental weapons can also do the same thing to you, and specialized elemental enemies such as chemical troopers are immune to their elemental type. Not that it'll help them once you switch to your regular gun...
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