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== [[Hack and Slash]] ==
* Possible to do in the Empires subset of ''[[Dynasty Warriors]]'' games, ''[[Dynasty Warriors]] 6 Empires'' outright rewards you for doing this for one battle on [[Nintendo Hard|Master]] or the hard '''[[Harder Than Hard|HELL]]''' difficulty (that's '''CHAOS''' for everyone outside Japan). needless to say, doing this for one battle on the higher difficulties is hard enough. Doing it for every battle on '''HELL''' puts you on par with [[Memetic Badass|Lu]] [[Precision F-Strike|Fucking]] [[That One Boss|Bu]], [[Bag of Spilling|if only for the fact that your stats are not carried over between]] [[New Game
== [[MMORPG|MMORPGs]] ==
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* The ''[[Tales Series|Tales]]'' games are popular among elite players for, as a cursory glance in [[YouTube]] will tell you, demonstrating your pimp combo skills by soloing powerful bosses. Many of these vids are also [[No Damage Run|No Damage Runs]].
* There is a version for ''[[Breath of Fire]] 3'', but it can be something of a hassle, as the game automatically revives slain party members after battle; thus you must keep killing them at the start of each fight...
* In ''[[Chrono Trigger (Video Game)|Chrono Trigger]]'', it is possible to skip straight to the final boss fight with only your main character. However, you can only do this at the very beginning of the game, and only by starting a [[New Game
* ''[[Rogue Galaxy]]'' allows for a solo character run of sorts, by setting the AI on "keep away", under which circumstances they won't help you fight at all, and won't heal themselves so they can be left dead. Party members auto-revive with 1 HP if [[Only Mostly Dead]] at the end of a fight, but they'll die again in short order if not healed, making their momentary livelihood mostly meaningless.
** And due to the sheer stupidity of the AI, you're probably better off doing this even if you're playing the game the ''straight'' way.
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** ''[[Final Fantasy IV (Video Game)|Final Fantasy IV]]'' has seen a number of attempts using Cecil (the only possible one, as the party is far more fluid than later ''Final Fantasy'' games). The usual strategy is using Bacchus (an item that causes Berserk) to get through boss fights. [[That One Boss|The Demon Wall]] is the usual choke point.
*** Only Cecil is possible, unless of course one uses patch codes of one form or another. It's quite possible, though mages will have a rough time. As, in some versions, bosses that are fought without a magic user in the party, such as Valvalius and the Dark Imp, are totally immune to spells.
** ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]'' has a variation, with people only following this as long the required character is around, meaning someone that joins early and rejoins early like the Figato twins is the "closest" to the feel of the challenge. [[Attack! Attack! Attack!|Umaro]] is considered to be the only one that can't win it, [[Tier Induced Scrappy|for obvious reasons]].
** This can be done in ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'' except when plot-necessary ({{spoiler|when Cloud is out of his mind in Mideel and Tifa, then Cid take over}}). It's somewhat trivial if you use Cloud, since the Yoshiyuki sword you pick up in Rocket Town powers up if you have dead people in your party. It's balanced out by three bosses (Reno, Bottomswell, Carry Armor) that have attacks that trap your character and require intervention from your dead party members, netting you an instant game over.
*** It's possible to get through those bosses without using anyone except Cloud. The key is you have to kill them before they can attack (done by power leveling, Meteorain is needed before you leave the Train Graveyard in order to beat Reno).'
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** The final bosses of ''[[Fire Emblem]] 4'' and ''7'' almost entirely rule out this challenge for those titles because of their high stats and/or weapon properties. Likewise, a [[Crutch Character]] solo run in any game (save 8) is unlikely to succeed.
*** There is a tactic that allows ''[[Fire Emblem]] 4'' to be soloable (by sword users, anyway), that utilises the Berserk status and a lot of luck.
*** [[Eleventh
* The ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics]]'' series. This also applies to a similar challenge, whereby a player is allowed to use a full party of five characters, but they all have to be the same class. A large part of the difficulty arises as most classes are incapable of healing themselves, and a dead character who is not revived after three turns is dead for good. This has also been combined where only the main character is played and he must remain as a single class.
** To this day, a five-man party straight class challenge has been completed for all playable classes, including Calculators not using math skill ever. Solo straight class challenge has also been completed for all classes except mime and true calculator, as well as many other game-shark only classes or even monsters.
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