Victory by Endurance: Difference between revisions

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'''Soushi:''' That, Festum, is '''pain!''' Do you want to know the name of the tactic I showed you? It's the ''War of Attrition''! The tactic of ''enduring pain!''|''[[Fafner in The Azure Dead Aggressor]]'' }}

 

* ''[[Naruto]]'' uses this tactic sometimes, given that he has more physical and chakra endurance than almost anyone. A particularly notable example is when Naruto defeats {{spoiler|Pain}}, as Naruto takes full advantage of his ability to spam powerful techniques to exhaust his opponent. Ironically, said opponent was using the ''same tactic at the same time''. Turns out that {{spoiler|Pain}} underestimated Naruto's stamina. However, Naruto usually expends that extra energy to do ''more'' rather than win his own fight. For example, in the recent {{spoiler|Fourth Shinobi War}} Arc, Naruto's new [[Super Mode]] is quite powerful and can be used for extended periods of time. Instead of conserving his energy for his upcoming fight, he creates a dozen clones to {{spoiler|personally turn the tide at every front of the war.}} This has notable consequences later, but his decision definitely did have its merits. However, this trope is often [[Subverted Trope|subverted]] for Naruto, as he often needs that extreme stamina just to ''keep up'' with the numerous challenges presented to him.

* Yami Bakura from ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' easily defeated Pegasus by attacking him after he just faced Yugi.

* In ''[[Fairy Tail]]'', this is how {{spoiler|Elfman defeats Bacchus in the Magic Tournament. Bacchus' magic martial arts make him too fast for Elfman to dodge, so he simply transforms into a lizardman with spiky scales. The entire match consists of Bacchus landing countless powerful blows on Elfman, seriously damaging his own hands in the process. In the end, Bacchus falls down exhausted conceding defeat.}}

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* Valentinian in the [[Belisarius Series]], but [[Defied Trope|defied]] in the most spectacular example:

* Used several times in the ''[[Earth's Children]]'' series. In one instance a group of hunters tire out a woolly rhinosaurus by each one jumping into its field of vision, making it chase them, and then another person jumps in, etc. At the end the rhino is practically dead from exhaustion, and they finish it off with spears.

* Bronn does this against Ser Vardis in ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' (and in ''[[Game of Thrones]]'') during Tyrion's [[Trial by Combat]]: Bronn wears only light armour and no shield, and uses [[Hit and Run Tactics]] to let the fully mailed and shielded Vardis tire himself out under the weight of his equipment before closing in and killing him.