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** [[spoiler:The legendary Joker Canio gains x1 Mult whenever a face card is destroyed. Card destruction effects are rather uncommon, with many not giving you the option to directly choose a card, and opportunities to destroy face cards naturally diminish the more you destroy. Because of this, Canio is counter-intuitively most effective if you were using a strategy that relied on filling your deck with face cards. That said, if you can somehow keep destroying face cards and pivot to a different strategy, you can pretty much turn the game into a cakewalk.]]

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* In ''VideoGame/{{Balatro}}'', the DNA card is a rare Joker that permanently duplicates a High Card played on the first turn and adds it to your hand for the next one. While using it requires you to start with the lowest-scoring hand by default, cloning the right cards can potentially net you Flush Fives, enhancements included.

*** In 3, 4, and 5, you can play Dante with the Royal Guard style. To get the most out of this style, you need to time Dante's blocks and releases near-perfectly. If you take the time to master it, however, you can do a lot of damage. A real lot. Plus blocking everything your enemy/ies can throw at Dante and retaliating like the unstoppable badass Dante is meant to be [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kitFV4F8hbM looks really awesome.]]

*** There are two types of LagCancel for its big guns Spiral and Kalina Ann. The easier one is switch-cancelling, where you switch to Ebony&Ivory, fire them and switch back. Little finesse is needed and anyone can do it. The harder one is to use Royal Guard to cancel. If you slip up on the rhythm, the cancel will fail and the refire rate will be as slow as if you never tried. If you get the rhythm correct, though, you can fire faster than what switch-cancelling offers.
*** Nevan: yes, it's slow, its moves need to be far more precise than any other in the game, it's the only melee weapon that mainly involves charging attacks, it kinda sucks against large enemies ''and'' its damage isn't all that great either. However, its range is by far the best in the game and its sickle attacks when using the Swordmaster attacks are obscenely powerful. Once you get skilled enough with Nevan, you can quickly switch between its crowd control attacks, leaving everyone immobilized, and its killer sickle attacks.

** Many of the heroes considered '[[SkillGateCharacter pubstompers]]' or restricted to 'early game' can still be devastating in the late game and at higher skill levels provided the team coordinates enough to buff them up until they are far ahead or the player has a flawless command of their abilities. Good examples are Riki who is supposedly negated by basic warding and the Spirit Breaker who is shut down by decent team coordination but have been used in a commanding manner by pros in tournaments.

* ''VideoGame/WarThunder'' features tracerless ammo belts as an option for plane loadouts. Players tend to use tracerless ammo less because they offer absolutely no visual cues as to where your bullets are heading and make it much harder to LeadTheTarget, doubly so if you're playing a difficulty mode without the leading assistance. However, a player that masters their use will have two significant advantages: first, the bullets themselves do more damage because they don't have to waste mass on tracer compound, and second, they won't tip off an enemy plane that they're being attacked until it's too late, making it significantly easier to pull off ambushes or abort a botched attack without the target going after you in revenge or going evasive and making a second attack much more difficult.

* In ''VideoGame/IWasATeenageExocolonist'', some cards reduce the value of adjacent cards, but if you can use them strategically, you can earn bonus points from pairs and straights.

* ''{{VideoGame/Plantasia}}'' is a gardening game with many kinds of flowers to choose from. Some flowers are harder to grow, but make up for it in other ways.

* In ''Videogame/FTLFasterThanLight'', the three stealth fighters fit the bill. All three start with no [[DeflectorShield shield system]], meaning that any and all attack hits them by default. They however all have more unusual ways to defend themselves. In particular, [[FragileSpeedster the Nesasio]] starts with an unparalleled level 4 engine, along with a cloaking system, allowing it to become invulnerable to attacks for a short time. Its weapons, while not flashy, [[BoringButPractical are both strong for their power consumption]], allowing it to ensure a second strike doesn't come. As a result, it is considered a solid ship if you know how to use it properly, in spite of its weaknesses.