That One Attack: Difference between revisions

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== Video Games ==

* "Off Waves", Tabuu's instant-kill red ring attack from ''[[Super Smash Bros.|Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]''. It hits thrice in a row, but once is more than enough if your dodge timing is the tiniest bit off. And that's after it was ''weakened'' by Sonic smashing the wings he extends to perform it. In a cutscene beforehand, he was able to OHKO most of the cast at once. To make matters worse, in boss mode on insane if you slip up once on this attack it could send you back to fight all of the other 9 bosses again.

** Master Hand and Crazy Hand have their hand drill attack which is difficult to avoid and capable of dealing up to 90% damage in Brawl. As well, Master Hand's finger walk has been improved in Brawl to have almost no starting lag and move quickly. Woe betide the player that happens to be right next to Master Hand when the attack executes.

* Kinnikuman from the first anime is tough as balls even though he's supposed to be a normal opponent in ''[[Kinnikuman: Muscle Fight]]''. He can heal himself back to full health and give himself super armor with his Burning Inner Strength. Although his health begins to deteriorate after using it, he can use it again if he has enough super meters. To make matters worse, Ashuraman and Puripuriman possess similar abilities to Kinnikuman

 

* ''[[Gradius]] III'''s lava stage boss explodes into pieces upon dying. Pieces that will ''[[Taking You with Me|kill you]]'' if they collide with you.

* ''[[In the Hunt|In The Hunt's]]'' [[Final Boss]] has a phase where it only uses ONE attack. Unfortunately, said attack resembles something from a [[Bullet Hell]]: it generates a minefield of indestructible red mines that absorb your shots. Made worse is the fact that you have a large collision box.

 

 

Rhythm games in general have fixed "charts", so you know when That One Attack is coming, and have time to say [[This Is Gonna Suck]] before it comes.

* [[Dance Dance Revolution|Max300 and Maxx Unlimited]] both have crazy sections after the big pause in the middle. In fact, DDR has a metric, called Voltage, which basically just measures how difficult That One Attack is for the selected song.

 

 

* Rank 2 in ''[[No More Heroes]]'' has an attack that instantly kills you. What does she do? She drops to the floor crying. If you hit her, or even get close to her, she instantly beats you to death. At no point is it hinted that this will kill you, and if you play the game without knowledge of this, YOU WILL DIE. To make matters worse, she can sometimes do this in mid combo. Even more aggravating is that sometimes she actually ''is'' crying ({{spoiler|she only attacks if she left one hand on the bat}}), so you can get thrown off easily if you aren't watching.

** Rank 4 of the first game, the boss has a near undodgeable spinning attack that takes a large chunk of health and can not be blocked.

 

 

* ''[[Doom]]'''s custom boss or [[Boss in Mook Clothing|miniboss]] monsters from the add-on pack in [[Game Mod|standalone mod scoredoom]] have at least one. Here are several egregious examples

** The Annihilator's homing missiles deal heavy damage, and are really hard to dodge, even in wide-open spaces (especially painful if said areas lack cover).

 

 

* In ''[[Crush Crumble and Chomp]]'', a single shot from the [[Mad Scientist]] will cause the monster to gradually slow down (simulated by giving the player fewer opportunities to enter commands). This eventually proves fatal as the humans' attacks gradually overwhelm the monster.

** Similarly, moving into a space with a power plant results in an immediate game over.

 

 

* In ''[[Angband]]'', Ancient Multi-Hued Dragons and Drolems are notorious for killing players who descend to 2500' without poison resistance. Players without it will take 800 HP of damage from a single breath.

* Agility in [[Pokémon Mystery Dungeon]], especially in Monster Houses. Doubles the speed of every enemy in the room, giving them more than enough time to wreck your party without you being able to counterattack. If it's used twice? Quadruple speed.

 

=== [[4X]], [[Real Time Strategy]], and [[Turn-Based Strategy]] ===

* ''[[Bleach: The 3rd Phantom]]'': Sennen Hyourou. It deals a medium amount of damage, stops you from moving or attacking, AND lowers your accuracy and evasion. Did I mention it can hit the 4 squares around its target, too? That means MORE characters that get affected by it! It doesn't help that Hitsugaya has to be in Bankai when he uses it, so you'll take even more damage that isn't connected to that attack (In Bankai, anyone within a two-space radius of Hitsugaya takes damage and can be potentially frozen, lowering accuracy and evasion.)

** It's not an attack, but Absolute Defense is too horrible of a move to not mention it. A character with this will randomly (much more often than not) take single-digit damage from ANY attack. Yes, even Co-Op attacks. A lot of bosses in [[Bonus Dungeon|Kisuke's Tower]] have it, and it is ''extremely'' frustrating.

 

 

* ''[[Plants vs. Zombies]]'' has Dr Zomboss' desperation attack, in which he drops a caravan onto six of your plants, [[One-Hit Kill|instantly squashing them]]. Unlike most of his other moves, this one cannot be avoided in any way possible. Thankfully, it is predictable (he only uses it once he is below half health, immediately after he gets back up from attacking).

* [[Final Boss|The Destroyer]] from ''[[Mini Robot Wars]]'' merges two of [[Plants vs. Zombies|Dr Zomboss]]' attacks and cranks it up to eleven. Its deadliest move has it open its mouth and fire out a [[Wave Motion Gun]] at two of your rows. Sure, you can move a few of your minirobots out of the way, but this attack will most likely destroy any non-defensive unit in the area of effect. Worst of all, this attack comes out ''without warning'', unlike Dr Zomboss' caravan!

 

 

* Though several items and weapons in the ''[[Mario Kart]]'' series can be jarring and chaotic, both the Spiny Shell and the Thunder have gained notoriety for toughening the races for the players, especially the former for the first-place rider. Same reason why they're considered a [[Scrappy Mechanic]].

* The Quake in the ''[[Wipeout]]'' series, a super-fast wave that can travel the length of any given circuit. And getting hit with it makes you lose control and slow to a crawl.

 

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