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* ''[[Pokémon Mystery Dungeon]]''. The dungeons themselves will see you using up the majority of your wiles and resources, while most bosses can be made utterly harmless with a single [[Standard Status Effects|status seed]]. Bosses with minions are exceptions, though, depending on your items and moves.
 
== [[Role -Playing Game]] ==
* In the RPG ''[[The 7th Saga]]'', random encounters are invariably more dangerous than a typical boss; just walking from one town to the next requires a ton of [[Forced Level Grinding]]. There are a few [[That One Boss|obscenely overpowered bosses]], but they're [[Rubber Band AI|special]].
* In the first two ''[[Shin Megami Tensei]]'' games, random encounters come hard and fast and you're pretty lucky if you can get to the end of the boss without being horribly mangled. The Boss you fight, on the other hand is at best marginally harder than one of the standard enemies outside... that you had to fight like eighteen of every two steps.
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* ''[[Dungeons and& Dragons]]'', regrettably, often works out like this - singular powerful monsters can often be a trivial challenge, simply because everybody gets their one set of actions a round. So the boss gets to move and attack... and then four to six party members get to do the same thing. Boss monsters tend to get buried in a pile of player character actions. Not to mention how many spells, even at low levels, can win such fights with a single dice roll, and at high levels with ''no'' dice roll. Fourth Edition attempts to avert this with Solo monsters, which get a lot more HP than normal enemies, and may also receive multiple actions to make them a challenge for a full party. And, since the boss is usually at the end of a day, in 4th edition players may decide to use their daily powers against them (since you lose your chance after an extended rest), speeding things up a bit. A Balor? No sweat. [http://www.tuckerskobolds.com/ Tucker's kobolds]? Run.
 
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