Board 8 > Best of the Trope Season 2: Day 16 - Jack-of-All-Stats

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GavsEvans123
12/31/18 10:43:27 AM
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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. Just bear in mind that I may close trope nominations temporarily if the list gets too long. 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 in Season 1. http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Best_of_the_Trope

Here is the current list of tropes.

Karmic Death
Laughably Evil

Without further ado, let's get started!
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GavsEvans123
12/31/18 10:46:48 AM
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Yesterday's trope, Evil Brit, was won by V.M. Varga (Fargo), who got 3 votes.

Previous Winners:
Un-Canceled - Futurama
Continuity Reboot - Batman Begins / Tomb Raider (2013)
Opposing Sports Team - Monstars (Space Jam) / Globo Gym Purple Cobras (Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story) / Luca Goers (Final Fantasy X)
Calling Your Attacks - Falcon Punch (Super Smash Bros.)
Arc Words - You have failed this city! (Arrow) / Bad Wolf (Doctor Who)
The Gunslinger - Roland Deschain (The Dark Tower)
Interface Screw - Touch Fuzzy, Get Dizzy (Yoshi's Island)
Cold Sniper - Widowmaker (Overwatch)
Signature Move - Falcon Punch (Super Smash Bros.)
Badass Santa - Santa Christ (Nostalgia Critic)
How the Character Stole Christmas - How the King Stole Christmas (Brawl in the Family)
An Ass-Kicking Christmas - Die Hard
Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain - Wile E. Coyote (Looney Tunes)
Walking Spoiler - Frank Fontaine (Bioshock) / Delta (Zero Time Dilemma)

Today's trope is Jack-of-All Stats. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/JackOfAllStats

The Jack-of-All-Stats is a member of the Competitive Balance lineup who does not specialize, and explicitly so. Strong but not The Strongest, Fast but not The Fastest, Tough but not The Toughest. Good at everything, the best at nothing. His biggest strength is his lack of any glaring weaknesses, and biggest weakness is his lack of any remarkable strengths. He may have trouble dealing with characters whose skills are more extreme than his if they're allowed to press their advantages. Some games tout the Fragile Speedster as great for beginners, while the Mighty Glacier is for experts only. In other games, the Fragile Speedster can be tough to control while the Mighty Glacier is easier to handle. In either case, the Jack-of-All-Stats is an all around safe bet for anyone.

The Jack-of-All-Stats is the baseline to get the hang of the controls; this character lacks the extremes that might trip up a novice. It is also a solid choice for advanced players who want the flexibility to exploit the enemy's weakness, no matter what that may be. Whether the character retains his usefulness as the player's skill grows depends on how much the game rewards versatility as opposed to pure power, but the Jack-of-All-Stats is almost never the best character in any given game or a Game-Breaker.


TL,DR: The most balanced character, who doesn't specialise in anything or have any glaring weaknesses.

Nominations:
Mario (Super Smash Bros. / Mario Kart)
Ryu (Street Fighter)
Misturugi (Soul Calibur)
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Snake5555555555
12/31/18 12:25:36 PM
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Soldier: 76 (Overwatch)
Batman (DC Comics)
Misturugi (Soul Calibur)
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Underleveled
12/31/18 12:43:26 PM
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Mario (Super Smash Bros. / Mario Kart)
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darkx
Score: There goes bracket
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Dancedreamer
12/31/18 2:45:15 PM
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Yosuke Hanamura (Persona 4)
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~Alexandra
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