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Today's trope is Game Breaker. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GameBreaker

An often controversial element of gameplay that unexpectedly trumps all others. Depending upon who you ask, it may or may not be considered cheating. A Game-Breaker is a legitimate element of the game used in an unintended way. The Meta Game ends up revolving around who can get the Game-Breaker (or use it on the other) first, resulting in Gameplay Derailment.

A Game-Breaker can boost a pre-existing strategy or character and make it overwhelmingly powerful against things it would normally be balanced against Scissors crushing Rock, so to speak. One fan term for it is "cheesing".

For example, in a game where the player's capabilities are meant to be limited by their access to currency, an easy trick that reaps a lot of money for little effort can become a game breaker. Or a particular gun having extreme firepower, high accuracy, and a high ammo capacity; or a Fighting Game character having a fast, unblockable move with very high priority (the ally equivalent to the SNK Boss). In games with a choice of playable characters, one may be much easier than the others and allow for skipping parts of levels that other characters would have to wade through slowly.

TL,DR: Something that's so powerful, it makes the game really easy if you use it, and there's rarely a reason not to use it.

Nominations:
Yata-Garasu (Yugioh)
Reflect (Kingdom Hearts 2)
Killstreaks (Assassin's Creed Brotherhood)