What's the most overpowered attack, weapon or ability in a game?

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I don't know why nobody has mentioned this but I'll go ahead and say it
SOUL STEAL
mother fucking SOUL STEAL from Castlevania Symphony of the Night, sure it started out kinda shitty but level it up and you can cast it infinitely, one shots EVERYTHING NO EXCEPTIONS, and as an added effect replenishes your life by the same damage it dealt. If that isn't the most OP bs ever I don't know what is
 

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Shanicus said:
Sky Dragon Slash from Grandia II and the Spectre Assault Rifle MK.X from Mass Effect both come to mind here...

Sky Dragon Slash for being a battle-wide attack that deals 3-4000 damage, charges fairly quickly and only costs 99 MP (which can be modified to 30 MP). Most enemies in Grandia II by the time you get Sky Dragon Slash have around 2-3000 HP, so it one hit kills nearly everything - hell, the final boss goes down in around 4-5 of these things, and he has the most health out of anything in game (a rare first for RPGs I've played...)
That game also had Mellenias Eye of Valmar attack that stunned any enemy in the game for several turns. Including the final boss of the game and you could keep it up from the start until the end of the battle so the final boss never gets to use a single ability.
 

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Chinese Stealth Armor in Fallout 3. The Stealth Field effect with a decent melee weapon or a good sniper made the game too easy.
 

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In rouge galaxy, you could have your teammates activate powers that buff everyone in the party. Then you swap them out for 2 different allies who do the same thing. Then you switch to the last 2 allies, one of which will make the enemy vulnerable to damage, the other shoves oost items down the main characters throat. Activate the power that turns your sword slashes into ranged shockwave attacks, and destroy everything.
Takes out the final boss in a couple seconds. The boss starts out over lava, floats over to to the land, and you have killed it before it lands.

I looked up a guide later. Apparently, the boss does a lot of attacks that you are supposed to dodge and be a long drawn out battle. I never saw any of it.
 

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I have to say the RCP90 from Goldeneye.

What's that? I hear naysayers?
Ok, here is why it's teh most overpowered weapon:
-Fastest firing weapon in the game
-Most common ammo in the game
-Can 3 shoot a common mook, and it takes less time to do so than firing one shot from a one hit one kill weapon
-Sexy as hell
-Fires through doors and bulletproof glass
-Has a 80 round magazine, and 800 more bullets ready to go.
-Instant reload(thanks to the game, but it adds to the comic relief that is using this gun)

Hmm, anything else? Oh yes, you have two of them.
Here is a guide to winning Goldeneye with that weapon:
Step one, hold the trigger
Step two, move forward
Step three, load the next mission
 

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JoesshittyOs said:
Fully upgraded Vanguard with only a pistol. Nova uses your shield's energy as a weapon and doesn't need time to recharge, yet biotic charge refills your shields

Nova Smash, Charge, Nova Smash, Charge.

You're practically invincible for about 70% of the game.
No shit!

Add to that Liara using Warp, Stasis, or Sigularity for a combo explosion, and you're an unstoppable hide tanning machine.
 

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Bloodtrozorx said:
Chinese Stealth Armor in Fallout 3. The Stealth Field effect with a decent melee weapon or a good sniper made the game too easy.
Ninja'd: You forgot about when you get a silenced weapon with it. You could literally stand there, half an inch away with a fully auto silenced rifle, pulling nothing but headshots, and they'd stand there doing 360's.

OT: Id have to say the Saber in ME3. With the proper gear, and at max level with Armor Piercing Ammo (Thanks Garrus :D) you can 1-3 shot almost any enemy unit that isnt a miniboss/armored unit, and those dont pose much more of a challenge. Its probably far more powerful then i make it out to be if your a Soldier, who can use Adrenaline rush.

TL;DR: Its a perfectly accurate singleshot rifle that can almost insta-gib any enemy unit with a headshot BEFORE you upgrade it, and it only gets more powerful after.
 

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NameIsRobertPaulson said:
Dejawesp said:
9thRequiem said:
Final Fantasy 7 : Knights of the Round. Powerful my itself, but you can pair it with other materia to make it insane. I went with MB Absorb - a devastating attack that gives you back way more mana that you spent to cast it ...
I remember binding knights of the round to MP absorb and HP Absorb. it would give about 1024 mana and 10500 or so health. I didn't even know the game could display the regeneration of more than 9999 HP and 999 mana in a single ability but it could for that ability.
That is nothing. Knights of the round paired with Quadra Summon. Every other materia slot? Mime + Counter. Now every time you are attacked, you will respond with Knights of the Round 6 times.

THAT'S BROKEN.
I don't remember Knights of the Round working with Quadra, ever. W-Summon, sure, but Quadra? Nope.
 

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Prototype wasn't a very good game. One of the reasons why, in my opinion, was that you could beat it really early on using the whip fist. If you were somehow still having problems, then about halfway through the game you got the armor upgrade as part of the story. So now not only good you one-shot helicopters hovering over Times Square from Queens, you could also walk straight up to a tank, take of the top, and hijack it without the possibility of taking any damage.
The final boss is basically this thing that used to be a girl, and is supposed to be really tough to damage. After all, she has a very small weak point, and there are many things standing between you and her. I only realized this later when hearing someone else talk about it, as well as the fact that you're apparently not supposed to climb up the building she's right next to, equip the armor and either the arm blade or the giant fists, and use a combination of momentum and already strong attacks to kill her in about three hits. That fight against a single hunter took longer, and by the end you were slaughtering six or seven of those a day.
Then you talked about the final boss and realised you hadn't actually played Prototype. GG.
 

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Stealth Archery in Skyrim, my character's not even good at archery and I can kill most people in 2 or 3 hits without them finding me.
Also that ability you get at 100 stealth where you can crouch in the middle of combat and everyone loses sight of you seems pretty OP. I haven't actually used it yet though.

Also many, many abilities or combinations of abilities in League of Legends.
 

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kouriichi said:
Bloodtrozorx said:
Chinese Stealth Armor in Fallout 3. The Stealth Field effect with a decent melee weapon or a good sniper made the game too easy.
Ninja'd: You forgot about when you get a silenced weapon with it. You could literally stand there, half an inch away with a fully auto silenced rifle, pulling nothing but headshots, and they'd stand there doing 360's.
Dear God!
How did I forget The Perforator and the Infiltrator?! Thank you.

Those two...overpowered by definition.
 

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The USAS 12 with frag rounds in Battlefield 3. That thing has more range than any shotgun has any business having... In fact it has more range than any assault rifle has any business having.

Can't wait until it's nerfed.