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[[File:CBalance 2050.jpg|frame|Coming to a theater near you, "[[The Good, the Bad and the Ugly|The Balanced]], [[The Munchkin]], and the [[Lethal Joke Character]]."]]
{{quote|''You know what does equal power? Power. Power equals power. Crazy, huh? But the type of power? Doesn't matter as much as you'd think. It turns out, [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall|everything is oddly balanced]]. Weird, but true.''
|'''Xykon''', ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]'' }}
In any game that offers the player a selection of multiple options to play as (whether it be characters in fighting games, cars in racing games, [[Faction Calculus|factions in strategy games]], or whatever), '''Competitive Balance''' comes into play. Since these options are meant to compete directly against each other, they need to be roughly equally powerful, or else you run into the problems with [[Character Tiers]]. For each advantage, a balanced character will have a [[Necessary Drawback]].▼
▲{{quote|''You know what does equal power? Power. Power equals power. Crazy, huh? But the type of power? Doesn't matter as much as you'd think. It turns out, [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall|everything is oddly balanced]]. Weird, but true.''|'''Xykon''', ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]'' }}
▲In any game that offers the player a selection of multiple options to play as (whether it be characters in fighting games, cars in racing games, [[Faction Calculus|factions in strategy games]], or whatever), Competitive Balance comes into play. Since these options are meant to compete directly against each other, they need to be roughly equally powerful, or else you run into the problems with [[Character Tiers]]. For each advantage, a balanced character will have a [[Necessary Drawback]].
Many types of these characters are based on their performance in various areas:
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