Board 8 > Best of the Trope Season 2: Day 185 - Difficult But Awesome

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Hello everyone, and welcome back to Best of the Trope!

Here are the rules. Each day, I will post a trope from TV Tropes, and each poster can name up to three examples of that trope. Whichever nomination gets the most mentions wins! Posters may also name as many Honourable Mentions as they like, but they are purely optional and will not count towards the running score. You may look at the TV Tropes page for that day's trope for examples, but you do not have to pick all your examples from the page. You can nominate whatever examples you like, as long as they qualify for the trope. Each trope will last around 24 hours before the next one goes up.

Posters may also nominate any tropes they wish to see come up during the series. This is optional, and you don't have to do it every day, or at all. Tropes will be randomly selected from the list each day, except for some occasions where I will pick a thematically appropriate trope that may or may not be on the list.

Here's the list of previous tropes, so if you wish to nominate some tropes, check on here that it wasn't previously done. http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Best_of_the_Trope

Trope list:
Disc-One Nuke
Lampshade Hanging
Tier-Induced Scrappy
That One Level
Game-Breaker
Cruel and Unusual Death
Squishy Wizard
Magic Knight
The Reason You Suck Speech
Storming the Castle
Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence
Mentor Occupational Hazard
Clipped Wing Angel
Torch the Franchise and Run
Grand Finale

Lots of winners for yesterday's trope, Broken Base, five to be precise. Sub VS Dub (Anime), Original VS Reboot (Devil May Cry), Country VS Pop (Taylor Swift), Casual VS Competitive (Super Smash Bros) and Genwunners (Pokemon) all got 2 votes each.

Previous Winners: Day 151 Onwards
Despair Event Horizon - John Wick's dog is killed (John Wick)
A**hole Victim - Joffrey Baratheon (Game of Thrones)
Crutch Character - Marcus (Fire Emblem 7)
Your Soul is Mine - Maximillian Pegasus (Yu-Gi-Oh!) / Shang Tsung (Mortal Kombat) / Dementor's Kiss (Harry Potter)
Pop-Cultured Badass - Deadpool
Acquitted Too Late - Tom Robinson (To Kill a Mockingbird)
Lightning Bruiser - The Flash (DC Comics) / Bob Barker (Happy Gilmore)
Me's a Crowd - Naruto / Multiple Man (X-Men)
A Taste of Power - Samus (Metroid Series)
Shrinking Violet - Violet (The Incredibles)
Stone Wall - Shuckle (Pokemon)
One Scene Wonder - The Black Knight (Monty Python and the Holy Grail)
Magikarp Power - Magikarp (Pokemon) / Pawn (Chess)
Joke Character - Pichu (Super Smash Bros Melee) / Dan Hibiki (Street Fighter)
Lethal Joke Character - L-Block (GameFAQs Contests)
Stupid Statement Dance Mix - They're Taking the Hobbits to Isengard / All Your Base
Giant Space Flea from Nowhere - Necron (Final Fantasy IX)
Roaring Rampage of Revenge - The Punisher (Marvel Comics) / John Wick / The Bride (Kill Bill)
Glass Cannon (Redux) - Tracer (Overwatch) / Hypno Disc (Robot Wars) / Nightmare (Battlebots)
Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome - Marie (The Bourne Supremacy)
Even the Girls Want Her - Lana Kane (Archer)
Even the Guys Want Him - Gaston (Beauty and the Beast) / Big Boss (Metal Gear Solid)
Mighty Glacier - Tohru (Jackie Chan Adventures)
Breather Boss - Morpha (Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time) / Gi Nattak (Final Fantasy VII)
Big Bad Friend - Big Smoke (Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas)
Launcher of a Thousand Ships - Nightwing (DC Comics)
Evil Cripple - Mr. Glass (Unbreakable)
Breather Level - 100 Acre Wood (Kingdom Hearts)
Beef Gate - Automatic 4-Star Wanted Level (Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas)
One True Love - Buttercup and Westley (The Princess Bride) / Shrek and Fiona (Shrek)
Cliffhanger - The Snap (Avengers: Infinity War)
Anti-Climax Boss - Yu Yevon (Final Fantasy X)
Lights Off, Somebody Dies - Devil / Anthology of Interest (Futurama) / And Then There Was Shawn (Boy Meets World)

Today's trope is Difficult But Awesome. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DifficultButAwesome

You have a character or faction in a game that occupies the top tier of competitive play. So why do they move slowly, use attacks that fail to impress, and have skills that look more appropriate for a Joke Character? Trying to get any decent use out of these characters is like trying to memorize the unabridged Encyclopedia Britannica.

But! With enough practice and experience, it turns out they really are awesome as advertised; it's just that these characters have a high bar to entry, and their steep learning curve scares most players away from using them. Most commonly seen in fighting games, strategy games, and in general multiplayer.

These characters tend to avoid becoming the Tier-Induced Scrappy, due to an unspoken respect for the amount of effort it takes to play one of these characters well, though they can still earn this status if they are particularly frustrating to play against and/or boring to watch; turtlers, attrition fighters, and heavy zoners are the most likely to earn Scrappy status, as are touch-of-death rushdown characters who are known for extremely lengthy combos. Counter Attack-centric characters lend themselves easily to this definition because of the need to master the precise timing of their counters, as do Mighty Glaciers in games that favor the relentless pressure of Fragile Speedsters or Jacks-of-All-Stats.

TL,DR: A character, vehicle or weapon that's very powerful, but also very difficult to use well.

Nominations:
Vatista (Under Night In-Birth)
Genji (Overwatch)
Red Tearstone Ring (Dark Souls)

Carl Clover (Blazblue Calamity Trigger)
Royal Guard (DMC3 and DMC4)
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There are so many Guilty Gear characters who work for this. Not sure which to say.
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The Great Knife (Silent Hill 2)
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Royal Guard (DMC)
Ana (Overwatch)
Nurse (Dead by Daylight)
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Snake (Brawl)
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Ana (Overwatch)
Phoenix Wright (Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3)
Throwing Knives (Modern Warfare 2)
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In honor of SGDQ:
Ball (Kirby: Nightmare in Dreamland)
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Nina Williams (Tekken)
Crimson Viper (Street Fighter IV)
Ana (Overwatch)
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Just gonna pick
Guilty Gear:
Bedman
I-No
Venom
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Rankings so far:
Ana (Overwatch) - 3 votes
Royal Guard (DMC3 and DMC4) - 2 votes
Vatista (Under Night In-Birth)
Genji (Overwatch)
Red Tearstone Ring (Dark Souls)
Carl Clover (Blazblue Calamity Trigger)
The Great Knife (Silent Hill 2)
Nurse (Dead by Daylight)
Snake (Brawl)
Phoenix Wright (Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3)
Throwing Knives (Modern Warfare 2)
Ball (Kirby: Nightmare in Dreamland)
Nina Williams (Tekken)
Crimson Viper (Street Fighter IV)
Bedman (Guilty Gear)
I-No (Guilty Gear)
Venom (Guilty Gear)