Basic Trope: A weapon that is more damaging against certain types of enemies.
- Straight: In Tales of Troperia, the Cleric's Sword deals double damage to undead, but is underpowered for its level otherwise.
- Exaggerated: The Slayer's Sword is next to useless against normal enemies, but causes an automatic One-Hit Kill against any undead, including bosses.
- Downplayed:
- The Sword deals +10 percent damage to undead.
- The Giantslayer's Sword is a massive sword that is very effective against giants and other large foes, but is rather impractical against human sized enemies.
- Justified:
- The Sword has enchantments that attack the magic that animates undead.
- The Sword is a Healing Shiv, and Revive Kills Zombie.
- Inverted:
- The Slayer's Sword, otherwise a great weapon against most enemy types, deals only half damage to the undead.
- The Necromancer's Scythe inflicts One-Hit Kill onto virtually everything but undeads, it heals them instead.
- The Savior's Shield doubles your defense against undead enemies.
- Subverted: The Flavor Text on the Sword says something about it being used to defeat an undead army, but it doesn't behave any differently than normal when used against undead...
- Double Subverted: ... but there is a skill that can only be used with it equipped that makes it more powerful.
- Parodied:
- The Q-Slayer's Sword deals double damage to enemies with the letter Q in their name.
- The Fleaslayer's Big Flocking Sword deals no damage to anything but fleas, which are incredibly hard to hit with the said sword.
- The Manslayer Sword is said to be able to kill any living man instantly. However, when Bob tries to use it against Alice, he finds out that the sword only works against men and deals no damage to women.
- Zig Zagged: The Sword has a chance to deal extra damage to undead, or deal less damage, or inflict a random status effect(Which may be positive or negative).
- Averted: the Sword isn't any more effective against undead than any other enemies.
- Enforced: Making them specialized makes it easier to make weapons more worth going out of one's way to get, without making any of them a Game-Breaker.
- Lampshaded: "Why is everyone creating sword only useful against one stuff?"
- Invoked: The Sword can be enchanted to be more effective against undead.
- Exploited:
- Most players only ever use the sword on undead.
- Defied:
- Most players don't use the Sword because other tactics are even more effective.
- The sword is indeed useful against undead, except there is no undead in the entire game.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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