History GameBreaker / WarriorsOrochi

* After his horrid handling in ''3'', Musashi comes back with a massive vengeance in ''4'' with a very OP running attack that does tremendous base damage, ''especially'' when tacked on with Aggression being proc'd (and even to the point of literally [[OneHitKill one-shotting]] people under the Unity Attack buff as well). On top of that, he's also recruited fairly early in the story, allowing him to trivialize a lot of stuff during that point onward. The multi-attribute from his Unique God Spell is a nice bonus as well, allowing him to rack up hits for combo generation and rapidly keep enemies in hitstun.
* Odin is by and large one of ''the'' most broken characters in the entirety of the fourth game throughout for a number of reasons - he has a fifteen second time stop as his "normal" magic, whereas most characters have a simple low damage blast. Every single one of his charge attacks is almost gratuitously powerful, the C4 and 5 clearing crowds and slaughtering officers en masse, and his C6 forces foes into a single area before nuking them from above. His Charge Magic turns Gungnir into a homing exploding machine gun, and his Musou Attack is dropping Gungnir from orbit. Little wonder he comes at the end of the game - with him properly powered up, even Chaotic and Pandemonium become a walk in the park. If a lot of stuff is coming your way, simply pause with his time stop and then tear it all to shreds.

* Kunoichi is a Power Type character with an R1 special that imrpoves her damage output on top of offering compleye invincibility for an extremely long time. With the right load out meant to improve her Musou gauge efficiency, its entirely possible for Kunoichi to keep up the invincibility form indefinitely. Kunoichi also have an extremely fast C2-1 attack for a fast elemental activation, and thanks to its status as a weapon-based elemental activation, have decent amount of Musou gauge refill. A well equipped Kunoichi is able to stay invincible for the entire map, while quickly assassinating officer in record time. This version of Kunoichi is considered broken from the very first game, and, thanks to the lack of nerf applied towards Samurai Warriors cast that happened during ''2'', lasts all the way until ''Z''.

** Then comes in someone like Lu Su whose newly-patched C6-EX can proc both elements + absorption, making it now deal heavy sustain + damage way more than before.

** As mentioned before, Jia Chong. Once more like in ''[=DW8XL=]'', his C1-EX due to now activating elements becomes absolutely busted.

* In ''4'', Osmosis and Absorption got an upgrade so that it no longer requires elemental activation (via percentage damage) to work as effectively, although does work better on an attack with it as before, making it very easy to recover health and musou now, although the devs are aware of how popular this is as one challenge for the "Pandemonium" difficult is switching out no longer heals you which says they expected it. Those who can use Hyper Attacks (mainly ''Samurai Warriors'' figures) can also easily restore themselves due to activation being more potent but it's by no means required, especially with elements combined and if you managed to launch a target with your Sacred Treasure's basic or charge spell just to juggle them to death with those said Hyper Attacks.
** On the flipside however, moves that use up musou that naturally proc charge attack-based attributes can no longer proc Osmosis, nor can it proc on K.O.ed targets. Also on a majority of elemental attacks, one, two or three elements at once can only be active on each enemy target hit instead of all equipped elements on the weapon; this often limits elemental movesets by a margin.

* You will most likely appreciate Athena's aid when she joins your ranks. Most of her Charge attacks will instantly petrify any enemies that come across her and her third Charge attack can be aimed so it will either cover a wide range to petrify many or focus fire on one enemy. That's not all, though: Athena's other Charge attacks that glows yellow will cause extra blasts that also sweeps the enemy away in a HUGE radius and even deal huge damage as well if it hits a petrified enemy. Add in some customization that procs both elements and absorption attributes and Athena can pretty much wreck the battlefield with power alone...on top of a unique god spell that cover a HUGE distance and a crazy C1... so much for strategy.

* Also from ''4'': Sima Zhao has hands down, the most powerful unique god spell in the game by default; at point blank, it just nukes anyone, period. Imagine procing both the aforementioned Aggression along with combining it with a maxed-out Divinity attribute, and no one ever survives upon inputting R1+Circle.

* After his horrid handling in ''3'', Musashi comes back with a massive vengeance in ''4'' with a very OP running attack that does tremendous base damage, ''especially'' when tacked on with Aggression being proc'd (and even to the point of literally [[OneHitKill one-shotting]] people under the Unity Attack buff as well). On top of that, he's also recruited fairly early in the story, allowing him to trivialize a lot of stuff during that point onward. The multi-attribute from his unique god spell is a nice bonus as well, allowing him to rack up hits and rapidly keep enemies in hitstun.

* There's also a number of generic {{Game Breaker}}s available for all characters added since the second game, called Tenbu (lit. Heaven Dance) AKA Almighty; renamed Brilliance in the third game: this very rare skill makes ''all currently equipped'' elemental skills activate on every hit as long as your Musou bar is full, meaning all your attacks are unblockable, kill mooks in a single hit and do a percentage of damage to anything stronger on every hit, or using one of the 2 characters that block attacks while attacking and giving them equipment that allows them to block attacks from any direction and recover life when blocking (Speed-types with no-Musou cost Combination Arts could abuse it like crazy).

* In the Versus Mode on ''Warriors Orochi 2'', the list of characters with at least one move satisfying this trope actually outstrips the list of characters too horrible to even use. By quite a margin at that.

* While there's tons of broken characters in ''3'', one character is agreed upon to be the single best character in the whole game... Xiahou Ba. His Type Action increases his attack and movement speed to a ridiculous degree and also works as an InvulnerableAttack, he wields a {{BFS}} and can shoot huge {{Sword Beam}}s and shockwaves out of it twice in succession, and with a maxed out Osmosis and other elements attached to increase the absorption rate, you can easily gain back the amount of Musou the move costs to use by the time it runs out. All of this translates into making him a LightningBruiser with insane offensive power, despite the Type Action not directly increasing his attack damage; this means that he is still limited to weapon setups that can allow him to properly one-shot generals, but the speed buff helps.
* The defensive equivalent is Xu Huang, whose EX Attack gives him an aura that makes it so that everything only does ScratchDamage to him, even on Chaos where enemies can kill any other maxed out character in 4-5 hits. Since it's an EX Attack, he can spam the combo that leads into it all day and use it to beat most stages with little effort. The fact that his attacks have an unique property of getting any enemy he hits stuck into his axe so that they can't escape any followup hits and take full damage from them doesn't hurt either. Plus, he's a Power-type character, meaning he'll always be resistant to nearly every attack that comes his way due to the Hyper Armor function. It works even better on higher difficulties with the Iron Gauntlets item equipped.

* Element-wise, not only can you use the aformentioned Almighty, there's also others that match it, such as Wrath AKA Tenkou (Heaven Offense) which works when the HP bar is full, or Grace AKA Ten'yuu (AKA Divine Aid) which works when below half HP. Needless to say, all three of those attributes were often banned when it comes to deciding best characters in Chaos Mode Solo Runs, but nowadays it's been subverted due to some characters being flat-out [[JokeCharacter worthless]] without it via a proper setup. Also subverted in that you need to have equipped elements for it to even work, and it doesn't proc absorption attributes. In addition, elements appear to be half power when activated this way in 3, and while it's not too bad in the long run it is noticeable that ice activates only half the time and slay does half its usual percentage damage to an officer or instant kills only half as much as it normally does.
** ''Ultimate'' also adds mixture orbs, which combine elements into one slot such as slay/wind or ice/lightning. this can not only save you space, but also allows you to stack elements even higher than +10, such as slay insta-killing more frequently or wind doing more damage. Not so much a game breaker in itself, but with the above mentioned skills you can get some fun elemental activation in if you take the time to build a weapon around it.

** But on the flipside, with Xu Shu in general, while he kills people fast without a doubt via an Aggression-power ground Type Action with Blast, Frenzy, Flak and a few other attributes, he's not one for item collecting; usually, having to wait for item drops from enemies at hit the ground WHILE THEY ARE STILL BEING JUGGLED from your R1 spams tends to be a pain, and on higher difficulties and in high miasma levels in Gauntlet Mode, spamming R1 is a bit of a must to make sure you stay invincible at any turn (though aiming at another direction tends to help).

* In ''4'', Osmosis and Absorption got an upgrade so that it no longer requires elemental activation to work, although does work better on an attack with it, making it very easy to recover health and musou now, although the devs are aware of how popular this is as one challenge for the "Pandemonium" difficult is switching out no longer heals you which says they expected it. Those who can use Hyper Attacks (mainly ''Samurai Warriors'' figures) can also easily restore themselves due to activation being more potent but it's by no means required, especially with elements combined and if you managed to launch a target with your Sacred Treasure's basic or charge spell just to juggle them to death with those said Hyper Attacks.

* Tons of it. The weapon system in general is this. Amongst the characters, the most stand-out examples are Kunoichi in first two games thanks to her fast offense and Invincibility loop with her R1 Type Action, Diao Chan in the first game (via her R1 buff's powerful effects), Cao Ren and Huang Zhong in the second game (their R1-enhanced charge attacks can wreck shit and Cao Ren's newly included hidden one is ridiculous), Sun Jian in both games, and most of the ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors'' cast in the first game. [[PurposelyOverpowered Orochi]] himself counts, as long as [[BoringButPractical you only used his first triangle attack]].

* Zuo Ci's Direction+R1 also took the cake, where not only did he give himself a temporary buff (that increases attack speed and damage), but he also can combine it with Square/the normal attack input for an unlisted R1 special, where he palms forward with his cards. The attack has quite a bit of range, and thanks to his buff cast on him beforehand it can come out absurdly fast, allowing you to spam that move and jump-cancel it with impunity. The offset of Zuo Ci in general is that with Speed-types, he can't take too much of a beating and relies less on C2 spams. The second game nerfed the activation time of his specials, giving them more start-up time and making them slower, but he's still just as powerful if you can use him well. Said hidden special didn't return in the third game, but it made a return in his most recent appearance in his home series as one of his EX attacks.
* With Cao Ren as mentioned above, he was a Technique-type character, meaning his Charge Attacks can be enhanced with the R1 button, and that his default Type Action special like some Technique-types was part of his normal attack chain (Square, R1; an R1-styled C2 input), as well as having a counter-attack R1. Nothing harmless, right? That is until the second game came in, Cao Ren also gained a hidden R1 skill, which was a more enhanced version of his C3 ([=Squarex2=], Triangle). When R1 was done with it, he causes a spread of [[RazorWind Razor Winds]] to blast out per shot, as opposed to a single one per shot. This enables him to clear out crowds like crazy, and essentially be a reprisal of Mitsunari's broken Direction+R1 special as mentioned above. That, and his original C1-EX-Special no longer was a grab, giving it a new hitbox with more range to make it activate (but at the same time may trigger too soon on the wrong targets). This even carries over the the [[NoExportForYou Japan-exclusive]] ''Warriors/Musou Orochi Z'', where the characters have changed little right from their second game incarnations; in that case, while it was strong, there were two different maximization setups to achieve which was down to preference. So either way, other characters were better as Cao Ren's C3-EX was able to do a lot of damage but would not always one-shot generals; plus you would need to have the proper elements attached since projectiles were heavily nerfed in the second game.
** In the same vein, Huang Zhong was a MASSIVE game breaker for a similar reason, only with a more effective setup; he didn't need to rely on any of his Type Action Specials; only his enhanced C1 (with just R1 alone) did the trick with powerful elemental activation and speed; the only downside was Huang Zhong like Cao Ren, was a sitting duck and was not the StoneWall that he was, so Huang Zhong needed a bit more safety; then again, enemies would always hit him to cause his Musou to refill either way.
* Just like in its home series, Ryu Hayabusa's [[SpinningPileDriver Izuna Drop]] a la his C2 chain. It launches Ryu and the enemy upwards, thereby making him safe from damage, and then the poor schmuck grabbed by Ryu would get piledrived to the ground and causes a ground pound effect for area damage... Note that Ryu is invincible and uninterruptible when he's piledriving and due to him being a Power character, he has less chance of getting staggered and interrupted. And unlike in home series, the AI isn't so overly [[NintendoHard sadistic-tear-your-hair-apart level]] so you'll be able to land this move perfectly... A LOT.

** From the third game, while there's tons of broken characters, one character is agreed upon to be the single best character in the whole game, Xiahou Ba. His Type Action increases his attack and movement speed to a ridiculous degree and also works as an InvulnerableAttack, he wields a {{BFS}} and can shoot huge {{Sword Beam}}s and shockwaves out of it twice in succession, and with a maxed out Osmosis and other elements attached to increase the absorption rate, you can easily gain back the amount of Musou the move costs to use by the time it runs out. All of this translates into making him a LightningBruiser with insane offensive power, despite the Type Action not directly increasing his attack damage; this means that he is still limited to weapon setups that can allow him to properly one-shot generals, but the speed buff helps.

** There's also a number of generic {{Game Breaker}}s available for all characters added since the second game, called Tenbu (lit. Heaven Dance) AKA Almighty; renamed Brilliance in the third game: this very rare skill makes ''all currently equipped'' elemental skills activate on every hit as long as your Musou bar is full, meaning all your attacks are unblockable, kill mooks in a single hit and do a percentage of damage to anything stronger on every hit, or using one of the 2 characters that block attacks while attacking and giving them equipment that allows them to block attacks from any direction and recover life when blocking (Speed-types with no-Musou cost Combination Arts could abuse it like crazy).
** In the third game, there's also others that match it, such as Wrath AKA Tenkou (Heaven Offense) which works when the HP bar is full, or Grace AKA Ten'yuu (AKA Divine Aid) which works when below half HP. Needless to say, all three of those attributes were often banned when it comes to deciding best characters in Chaos Mode Solo Runs, but nowadays it's been subverted due to some characters being flat-out [[JokeCharacter worthless]] without it via a proper setup. Also subverted in that you need to have equipped elements for it to even work, and it doesn't proc absorption attributes. In addition, elements appear to be half power when activated this way in 3, and while it's not too bad in the long run it is noticeable that ice activates only half the time and slay does half its usual percentage damage to an officer or instant kills only half as much as it normally does.
** Also in the ''3 Ultimate'' is mixture orbs, or orbs that combine elements into one slot such as slay/wind or ice/lightning. this can not only save you space, but also allows you to stack elements even higher than +10, such as slay insta-killing more frequently or wind doing more damage. Not so much a game breaker in itself, but with the above mentioned skills you can get some fun elemental activation in if you take the time to build a weapon around it.
* In the third game, you can access the most JustForFun/{{Egregious}} example by far, in the 'Triple Thrift' combo. The 'Thrift' ability reduces the consumption of the Musou Gauge, and is possessed by two characters from the VideoGame/SamuraiWarriors series - [[InLoveWithYourCarnage Noh]] and [[ThePowerOfRock Motochika]] [[MusicalAssassin Chousokabe]]. Combine them with a Thrift-using character from another series (Your choice of [[FatBastard Dong Zhou]], [[DarkMessiah Zhang]] [[PathOfInspiration Jiao]] or [[TheFool Liu]] [[ObfuscatingStupidity Shan]]), get them all to Proficiency S, and your Musou-gauge will decrease at snail's pace, allowing the Samurai Warriors-flavor Musou (which is normally a brief SuperMode) to last pretty much an entire battle... making you entirely invulnerable until it runs out, and since you can refill your musou just by hitting enemies with charge attacks with the right weapon skills equiped, it never will. And if you DO get knocked out of it by [[WeaksauceWeakness a cutscene, a bath, or a slide down a mountainside]], you can just switch to the OTHER character and jump right back into invulnerability. Makes [[HarderThanHard Chaos Mode]] a walk in the park, if somewhat dull...
** A bigger roster was added in ''Ultimate'', as well as promotions allowing every character to take on a second skill. Xu Shu has it as his first skill, and he himself is almost a minor game breaker with both Thrift and a very, very spammable ground Type Action that summons a rain of arrows in front of him for several seconds that will flinch anybody (a lot like his second Musou Attack in ''Dynasty Warriors 8'' in terms of the quote and gesture), and characters with the secondary skill, such as Liu Bei and Hundun are the ones with single shot style Musou Attacks, while Ayane, Yinlong, Mitsuhide Akechi, and Nene all have ''Samurai Warriors''-styled super modes, meaning now, with some grinding, you can have a team of 3 (or 5 in Gauntlet Mode) party members staying perpetually under Super Mode.

* However, almost none of this up above compares to Kiyomasa Katou in pretty much all versions of ''3'', whose R1 Type Action is the strongest in the game when maxed out with the Frenzy and Blast attributes. His C5's great at wave clearing and can easily activate sustaining attributes. With the said Type Action, he can 1-to-2 shot any generals in his way, even on Chaos difficulty. There's a reason why in some circles they say he has arguably the fastest offense in the game.

* Odin is by and large one of ''the'' most broken characters in the entirety of the fourth game throughout for a number of reasons - he has a fifteen second time stop as his "normal" magic, whereas most characters have a simple low damage blast. Every single one of his charge attacks is almost gratuitously powerful, the C4 and 5 clearing crowds and slaughtering officers en masse, and his C6 forces foes into a single area before nuking them from above. His Charge Magic turns Gungnir into a homing exploding machine gun, and his Musou Attack is dropping Gungnir from orbit. Little wonder he comes at the end of the game - with him properly powered up, even Chaotic and Pandemonium become a walk in the park. If a lot of stuff is coming your way, simply pause with his time stop and then tear it all to shreds.

* After his horrid handling in ''3'', Musashi comes back with a massive vengeance in ''4'' with a very OP running attack that does tremendous base damage, ''especially'' when tacked on with Aggression being proc'd. On top of that, he's also recruited fairly early in the story, allowing him to trivialize a lot of stuff during that point onward.

** Deng Ai's C2-EX gets buffed to ridiculous levels, and on top of swinging pretty fast to each his C2 in the first place, this becomes quite easy to nuke crowds as many times as you need/want and to generate combo.

** On the flipside however, moves that use up musou that naturally proc charge attack-based attributes can no longer proc Osmosis, nor can it proc on K.O.ed targets.

** On the flipside however, moves that use up musou that naturally proc charge attack-based attributes can no longer proc Osmosis.
* Another one from 4 is the Lion of Nemea, the alternate version of the Cerberus Sacred Treasure, if you [[BribingYourWayToVictory bought the DLC]]. The charge magic attack with it deals absurdly high damage, so much so that you can take down boss level enemies in a single use.

* The recent 1.05 update managed to give almost every non-Hyper Attack user extra elemental activation attacks, especially for those who use EX Attacks from the Chinese-figure-side. Chinese figures such as Jia Chong finally become viable thanks to this (he was bottom of the barrel low tier in the Japanese tier list beforehand), but in comes someone like Lu Su whose newly-patched C6-EX can proc both elements + absorption, making it now deal heavy sustain + damage way more than before.

** Many new elements introduced in ''Ultimate'' can easily break the game with the right setup, like those which give you Power-Ups when you reach a certain combo. Since the combo counter counts the total hits landed on all targets (as oppose to individually for each target), reaching the threshold would be a walk in the park given the enemy density in the game (EVEN for the PS Vita port).

* However, almost none of this up above compares to Kiyomasa Katou, whose R1 Type Action is the strongest in the game when maxed out with the Frenzy and Blast attributes. His C5's great at wave clearing and can easily activate sustaining attributes. With the said Type Action, he can 1-to-2 shot any generals in his way, even on Chaos difficulty. There's a reason why in some circles they say he has arguably the fastest offense in the game.
*** But on the flipside; in Gauntlet Mode from ''Ultimate'' where crowds are easily increased in number (ESPECIALLY at high/max miasma levels), Kiyomasa arguably has a harder time with his normal setup (as his C5's a bit detached from his moveset), and combo-ability activation to trigger Aggression (for a free x2 attack powerup), Bastion (free x2 defense powerup) and/or Alacrity (free 100% healing item) is where it's normally at to make sure you survive as much as possible (however his midair R1 Type Action helps greatly here in a dense crowd). People like Wei Yan and Nobunaga with their broken midair R1 Type Actions take his place instead, since they do lots of damage and generate a ton of combo.

* In ''4'', Osmosis and Absorption got an upgrade so that it no longer requires elemental activation to work, although does work better on an attack with it, making it very easy to recover health and musou now, although the devs are aware of how popular this is as one challenge for the "Pandemonium" difficult is switching out no longer heals you which says they expected it. Those who can use hyper attacks can also easily restore themselves due to activation being more potent but it's by no means required.
* Another one from 4 is Namea Lion. This is the alternate moveset of Cerberus, if you [[BribingYourWayToVictory bought the DLC]], and the charge magic attack with it deals absurdly high damage, so much so that you can take down boss level enemies in a single use.
* You will most likely appreciate Athena's aid when she joins your ranks. Most of her Charge attacks will instantly petrify any enemies that come across her and her third Charge attack can be aimed so it will either cover a wide range to petrify many or focus fire on one enemy. That's not all, though: Athena's other Charge attacks that glows yellow will cause extra blasts that also sweeps the enemy away in a HUGE radius and even deal huge damage as well if it hits a petrified enemy. Add in some customization and Athena can pretty much wreck the battlefield with power alone... so much for strategy.

* Another one from 4 is Namea Lion. This is the alternate moveset of Cerberus, if you [[BribingYourWayToVictory bought the DLC]], and the charge magic attack with it deals absurdly high damage, so much so that you can take down boss level enemies in a single use.

* In ''4'', Odin and Ares are dead-busted and at the top of the tier lists, along with anyone else having a Hyper Attack moveset via ''Samurai Warriors''-style as every input of their Hyper Attack can naturally activate elements, meaning they have little-to-no-trouble sustaining themselves.

* However, the biggest contender by far is Cai Wenji (AKA Cai Yan) in ''Ultimate''. Her midair R1 Type Action compared to even the likes of Fu Xi, has THE BEST fixed absorption rate in the game akin to Kojirou's C7, meaning it doesn't even need Aggression to sustain off of a ''single peon'' (it heals her to a near single full bar of HP). The only downsides are that it doesn't penetrate units, has no actual elemental activation and cannot be directed/aimed mid-animation AT ALL; while this in tandem with several of her other moves to generate combo with (charge attacks, jump charge, EX Attack and Spirit Charge all + Echo) to activate Aggression and Bastion like the rest of the Wonder-types makes her solid, she's hands down ''the best'' character in the ''Ultimate'' version of the game due to her free damage + massive heal from her midair R1.

*** But on the flipside; in Gauntlet Mode from ''Ultimate'' where crowds are easily increased in number (ESPECIALLY at high/max miasma levels), Kiyomasa arguably has a harder time with his normal setup (as his C5's a bit detached from his moveset), and combo-ability activation is where it's normally at to make sure you survive as much as possible (however his midair R1 Type Action helps greatly here in a dense crowd). People like Wei Yan and Nobunaga with their broken midair R1 Type Actions take his place instead, since they do lots of damage and generate a ton of combo.

** Breaking the game just that much more with triple thrift is a high level "belt of focus" item. Belt of focus will slowly restore your musou automatically, with higher levels restoring it faster. If you use triple thrift and use either type action or a dynasty warriors style musou with the belt equipped to that character, ''you will get back to full musou the second after you start your attack.'' It's not quite as broken as Samurai Warriors style invincibility, but it does allow dynasty warriors characters to join in the broken fun, and with the right skill, Brilliance, you can have a musou where elements are activated with every single hit.

** In the third game, there's also others that match it, such as Wrath AKA Tenkou (Heavenly Offense) which works when the HP bar is full, or Grace AKA Ten'yuu (AKA Divine Aid) which works when below half HP. Needless to say, all three of those attributes were often banned when it comes to deciding best characters in Chaos Mode Solo Runs, but nowadays it's been subverted due to some characters being flat-out [[JokeCharacter worthless]] without it via a proper setup. Also subverted in that you need to have equipped elements for it to even work, and it doesn't proc absorption attributes. In addition, elements appear to be half power when activated this way in 3, and while it's not too bad in the long run it is noticeable that ice activates only half the time and slay does half its usual percentage damage to an officer or instant kills only half as much as it normally does.

** There's also a number of generic {{Game Breaker}}s available for all characters added since the second game, called Tenbu AKA Almighty (lit. Heavenly Dance; renamed Brilliance in the third game): this very rare skill makes all elemental skills activate on every hit as long as your Musou bar is full, meaning all your attacks are unblockable, kill mooks in a single hit and do a percentage of damage to anything stronger on every hit, or using one of the 2 characters that block attacks while attacking and giving them equipment that allows them to block attacks from any direction and recover life when blocking (Speed-types with no-Musou cost Combination Arts could abuse it like crazy).

** From the third game, while there's tons of broken characters, one character is agreed upon to be the single best character in the whole game, Xiahou Ba. His Type Action increases his attack and movement speed to a ridiculous degree and also works as an InvulnerableAttack, he wields a {{BFS}} and can shoot huge {{Sword Beam}}s and shockwaves out of it twice in succession, and with a maxed out Osmosis and other elements attached to increase the absorption rate, you can easily gain back the amount of Musou the move costs to use by the time it runs out. All of this translates into making him a LightningBruiser with insane offensive power.

* Tons of it. The weapon system in general is this. Amongst the characters, the most stand-out examples are Kunoichi in first two games thanks to her fast offense and Invincibility loop with her R1 Type Action, Diao Chan in the first game (via her R1 buff's powerful effects), Cao Ren and Huang Zhong in the second game (their R1-enhanced charge attacks can wreck shit and Cao Ren's newly included hidden one is ridiculous), Sun Jian in both games, and most ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors'' cast in the first game. [[PurposelyOverpowered Orochi]] himself counts, as long as [[BoringButPractical you only used his first triangle attack]]. But, as seen in TierInducedScrappy, some characters are much less effective at utilizing such broken mechanics as they may have been programmed to be quite ineffective in general even when maxed out compared to others via negative programming oversights.

* Tons of it. The weapon system in general is this. Amongst the characters, the most stand-out examples are Kunoichi in first two games thanks to her fast offense and Invincibility loop with her R1 Type Action, Diao Chan in the first game (via her R1 buff's powerful effects), Cao Ren and Huang Zhong in the second game (their R1-enhanced charge attacks can wreck shit and Cao Ren's newly included hidden one is ridiculous), Sun Jian in both games, and most VideoGame/DynastyWarriors cast in the first game. [[PurposelyOverpowered Orochi]] himself counts, as long as [[BoringButPractical you only used his first triangle attack.]]

* In the third game, you can access the most {{Egregious}} example by far, in the 'Triple Thrift' combo. The 'Thrift' ability reduces the consumption of the Musou Gauge, and is possessed by two characters from the VideoGame/SamuraiWarriors series - [[InLoveWithYourCarnage Noh]] and [[ThePowerOfRock Motochika]] [[MusicalAssassin Chousokabe]]. Combine them with a Thrift-using character from another series (Your choice of [[FatBastard Dong Zhou]], [[DarkMessiah Zhang]] [[PathOfInspiration Jiao]] or [[TheFool Liu]] [[ObfuscatingStupidity Shan]]), get them all to Proficiency S, and your Musou-gauge will decrease at snail's pace, allowing the Samurai Warriors-flavor Musou (which is normally a brief SuperMode) to last pretty much an entire battle... making you entirely invulnerable until it runs out, and since you can refill your musou just by hitting enemies with charge attacks with the right weapon skills equiped, it never will. And if you DO get knocked out of it by [[WeaksauceWeakness a cutscene, a bath, or a slide down a mountainside]], you can just switch to the OTHER character and jump right back into invulnerability. Makes [[HarderThanHard Chaos Mode]] a walk in the park, if somewhat dull...