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* ''[[Dragon Quest]]'':
* ''[[Fire Emblem]]'':
** Generally speaking, the stronger a weapon is, the less accurate it becomes. This is particularly noticeable in ''[[Fire Emblem Elibe|The Binding Blade]]'' since there player units are underpowered and most weapons are quite inaccurate in the first place.
** And compared to swords and lances, axes are less accurate, but they're more powerful (the degree depends on which game is being played). Dark Magic and Thunder magic are also this way when the magic types differ.
* ''[[World of Tanks]]'':
** SPGs (self-propelled guns) are prone to missing by an wide margin, on account of their shells harmlessly landing in front or behind their targets. But ''when'' they directly hit an tank from a favourable angle, the results can range from [[Scratch Damage]], simply taking a sizeable chunk out of a vehicle's health, killing a tank with one hit, and even a [[One-Hit Kill]] or [[One-Hit Polykill]].
**While there are many tanks that can equip a canon that fits this archetype, the KV-2 with the 152mm M-10T howitzer is infamous for: Shooting at the ground in front of an enemy tank who's 50 meters away from you, destroying most of the opposition it sees with a single high-explosive shell, severely crippling an enemy tank when said shell doesn't completely penetrates (which is common), and completely missing an nearby enemy only to kill another one that's a fair distance behind it.
* In ''[[Pokémon]]'' the "best" attack moves of a type has at least two candidates, one of "normal" power but perfect accuracy (unless accuracy is decreased by effect) and one of higher power but only 70-80% accuracy. Most serious players generally prefer the first, but the second is often needed to pass certain 1HKO thresholds or because a Pokémon simply can't learn the first one. Most moves that hit regardless of accuracy changes tend to have half (or less) the power of standard attacks.
** One particularly extreme example is High Jump Kick which is very powerful at 130 attack (in [[Pokémon Black and White|gen V onward]]) and 90% accuracy. In exchange, if the user misses they lose half their HP.
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