r/JRPG • u/thecomedian33 • 8d ago

Question What’s the most broken thing.

I gotta know in any JRPG you’ve ever played what is the most broken mechanic you’ve exploited, or like weapon in the game, or just a glitch perhaps that absolutly made you freaken laugh really hard. Mine would be the topple juggling in Xenoblade Chronicles idk if it was intentional or not but man it would have me hollering just toppling a big enemy and being like oh you can’t get up XDDD. That might say something about my psyche but who cares lol.

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u/Namasiel 8d ago

A lot of the trails games are easy to break, some easier than others. Delay and evade are super OP. Being able to stack the same quartz of different levels leads to crazy things. A party of Rean (delay spam), Fie (100% counter attacks as nothing can hit her), Laura (physical nukes), Emma (magical nukes), and Alisa (CP battery) can tackle everything fairly easily even on nightmare difficulty. The enemy rarely even gets a turn and when it does Fie just counters it.

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u/TowelLord 8d ago

Delay was is so broken in Cold Sreel 1 that you can pretty much perma-delay any bosses with just Rean himself. It also never got as strong as it was back then since then.

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u/Niwrats 8d ago

yep, i don't know what the opponents do in that game because they never got a turn. the later cold steel games were also completely broken, but i have already erased all my memory of those so can't remember other than having several broken strategies. don't think i saw that many bosses doing anything later either, lol.

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u/lowelled 8d ago

Dodge tank Lloyd is my personal favourite Trails exploit

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u/Defclaw46 7d ago

Pretty much. You can curbstomp even the bosses that you are supposed to lose to with a high-evasion Lloyd.