Any hit that reaches the damage Cap is massive enough, and this attack hits around a dozen times.
The enemy is vulnerable! Strike their weakpoint for massive damage!
Named for Sony's E3 2006 presentation, where these tropes are best used against a Giant Enemy Crab with Real-Time Weapon Change.
Tropes:
- Achilles' Heel
- Aim for the Horn: the horn is the foe's weakest point and targeting it repeatedly will lead to their defeat.
- Alpha Strike: Everyone focuses their attacks on a single target.
- Always Critical Hit Attack
- Anti-Orbital Gun: Almost always tremendously powerful weapons since they're mounted on a planet surface and firing into space.
- Armor-Piercing Attack
- Attack Its Weak Point
- Attack the Tail
- Back Stab
- Battering Ram
- Begin with a Finisher: Why save a finishing move for the end of a battle?
- BFG
- BFS
- Big, Bulky Bomb
- Boom, Headshot!
- Boss-Altering Consequence: An item or ability that isn't required to win the boss fight but does more damage than usual to a specific boss or even kills it instantly.
- Breast Attack
- Chunky Salsa Rule: A sufficiently powerful attack will kill a target instantly.
- Clip Its Wings
- Critical Hit
- Critical Hit Class: A character or character class specializing in dealing frequent critical hits.
- Damage-Increasing Debuff
- Death or Glory Attack: A powerful attack that puts the attacker at a severe disadvantage if it misses.
- Elemental Rock–Paper–Scissors: One element deals more damage against another.
- Epic Flail
- EX Special Attack
- Fantastic Nuke
- Feed It a Bomb
- Finishing Move
- Fixed Forward-Facing Weapon
- Gathering Steam
- Go for the Eye
- Grapple Move
- Great Bow
- Grenade Launcher
- Groin Attack
- Humongous-Headed Hammer
- Infinity -1 Sword: A powerful weapon that isn't the strongest, but is much easier to obtain.
- Infinity +1 Sword: The most powerful weapon that's often also the most difficult to acquire.
- Injured Vulnerability
- Instakill Mook: If this enemy attacks you, you're as good as dead.
- Limit Break
- Literal Splitting Headache: Death by the head being split open.
- Monochromatic Impact Shot: A blow so powerful it reduces the color palette.
- More Dakka: Bombarding your enemy with a barrage of bullets.
- One-Hit Kill
- One-Hit Polykill: A single attack that pierces through one or more targets.
- Penultimate Weapon
- Practice Target Overkill
- Pressure Point
- Quad Damage
- Siege Engines
- Sniping the Cockpit: Killing the pilot disables the vehicle they're driving.
- Status Effect-Powered Ability
- Sticky Bomb
- Super Special Move
- Superweapon
- Surplus Damage Bonus
- Tactical Rock–Paper–Scissors: One weapon or class deals more damage against another.
- Tailor-Made to Terminate: A weapon that is able to exploit all of a specific enemy's weaknesses and counter all their strengths.
- Targeting the Exhaust System
- There Is No Kill Like Overkill
- Throw the Mook at Them: Throwing enemies into other enemies.
- Unblockable Attack
- Untouchable Until Tagged
- Wave-Motion Gun
- Weapon of X-Slaying: A weapon is super-effective against a specific enemy race or class.
