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=== [[Action Game]] ===
* Your most important weapon in a 3D ''[[Ninja Gaiden]]'' is your mobility.
* ''[[Lugaru]]: The Rabbit's Foot'' has a player-only move that lets you drop to all fours and run at double the top speed of the other rabbits.
** Wolves, on the other hand, use that all the time to catch up with you...and their version is ''blindingly'' fast.
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** This tends to be averted in ''[[Left 4 Dead]]'', depending on the zombie type and player character health.
** ''[[Halo: Reach]]'' provides a subversion with one particular enemy – the elites. Elites can easily out-run any player character, and will pursue you doggedly, especially if said elite has a [[One-Hit Kill]] [[Laser Sword]] and is more durable than most ''tanks''.
** The first two ''[[Serious Sam]]'' games, allowing Sam to strafe-run something fierce, and making the colossal distances slightly more bearable—though most enemies with a melee attack are slightly faster than you.
=== [[Fighting Game]] ===
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=== [[MMORPG]]s ===
* Inverted in ''[[Final Fantasy XI]]''. Most monsters move as fast or faster than the player, and unlike some games will often ''not'' stop following you until you reach another zone. Generally, the only practical way to kite in the game is to have gear that increases your movement speed, although it's possible on many monsters without it provided you get a good head start.
* Very few non-player characters in ''[[
=== [[Platform Game]] ===
* After ''[[Mega Man X]]'', the greatest advantage a player has over most enemies (including many bosses) is in the player's vastly superior speed and or agility.
** That and variability. Most bosses suffer from [[Crippling Overspecialization]].
* Common ''[[Metroid]]'' trope, starting with ''[[Super Metroid]]''.
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* Generally averted in ''[[Dungeon Crawl]]''; most races move about the same speed as an average enemy, with some enemies being faster or slower than average. Played straight with spriggans and centaurs, who are significantly faster than most enemies, and inverted with nagas and worshipers of Cheibriados, who move slower than the average enemy. Followers of Cheibriados are particularly noteworthy in that their most of the powers their god grants work most effectively against faster enemies, making them [[Mighty Glacier]]s.
=== [[Role
* Seen in ''[[Odin Sphere]]'', especially with Cornelius.
* In ''[[Persona 3]]'' (possibly ''4'' as well), the player is faster than any non-gold (who run ''away'' from the player if spotted) shadow unless they hit you from the side. This allows quickly bypassing most enemies.
* Any games in the ''[[Tales (series)]]'' featuring the Free Run mechanic can turn into this, especially in ''[[Tales of the Abyss]]''', where it was introduced. You can literally dodge everything by running circles around your enemies, and only one boss was fast enough to actively chase you down.
* ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]]'' has force speed. While mostly used for faster exploration (or killing the enemy horribly with higher ranks), it can get you out of a tough spot when your teammates are down.
* Played with a little in ''[[The Elder Scrolls]] III: [[Morrowind]]''. In the game, you can complete a sidequest and get the “Boots of Blinding Speed.” Wearing them turns you into probably the fastest possible thing in the game, at the penalty of a near total blindness side effect.
** Not just 'a little', [[Hit and Run Tactics]] were viable for many a player build. In ''all'' [[The Elder Scrolls]] games, players' max running and attack speeds far exceeded any character in the game, while NPCs were slow and predictable. The only dangers for an unarmored character were tighter spaces and creatures with longer reach.
** The Boots of Blinding Speed combine nicely with a Breton character (or anyone else with magic resistance). Insanely high speed at the cost of near-total blindness? [[Awesome but Impractical]] [[Your Mileage May Vary|meets]] [[Schmuck Bait]]. Insanely high speed at the cost of feeling like you're wearing sunglasses? [[Game Breaker|There's no reason to even]] ''[[Game Breaker|look]]'' [[Game Breaker|at other boots]].
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