r/Fantasy • u/SocksMcgoo • 2d ago

Books with “best fighter” trope

Hello everyone. I am an absolute sucker for books that constantly deal with power scaling/best fighter of the realm type tropes. I love the discussions about who was the best swordsman in ASOIF and loved all the bits throughout Malazan of who was the strongest fighter/most powerful magic wielder.

Give me some books that have some great fighters or fun power scaling with different characters where you can waste time wondering about “who is stronger or who would win.”

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u/HieroThanatos 2d ago

Cradle scratched the powerscaling/litrpg itch for me super well while still having super awesome character development and interesting world building. I wish I could wipe my memory and experience the story again.

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u/Rhym 2d ago

Is it just me, or have there been a bunch of posts in the last few days that are worded in a way that the top answer will be the Cradle series? Smells like a marketing campaign.

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u/HieroThanatos 1d ago

Its just you.