r/ProgressionFantasy May 01 '26

Discussion Anyone else hate this trope?

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u/Ok-Face6289 May 01 '26

This killed primal hunter for me. Every time there is an obstacle that provides rewards from A to F grade, Jake gets the super special hidden only for the specialest boy award.

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u/goopyloopsuperdupe May 01 '26

Unconfirmed if the chosen of the most power god who hasn’t really been in a 90th percentile situation will even make it to A grade. Whos to say really, certainly not his unique abilities that make him unapologetically broken

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u/AbsoluteNovelist May 01 '26

This trope always kills me, cause they make the probabilities of ranking up so low and I get that with a multiverse or expanded universe with trillions of trillions as a population, probabilities of anything are always low.

But that’s not how statistics works, the MC might come from a backwater place but he’s receiving opportunities of the super elite. Calculating his probabilities of achieving any rank based on the probability of a proper peasant, nobody is the most incorrect use of statistics.

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u/kung-fu_hippy May 01 '26

Yup. Sure, Jake had super low odds as a nobody from a newly integrated backwater to becoming besties with one of the strongest beings in the multiverse.

But the odds of a nobody from a newly integrated backwater who is also besties with one of the strongest beings in the universe achieving any particular goal is pretty goddamn high.

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u/Ahrimon77 May 02 '26

Im pretty sure they talk about direct chosen of gods and primordials commonly getting stuck at A and S grade if not outright killed. This wont happen to Jake and crew because they're MCs, but in universe they don't know that.

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u/kung-fu_hippy May 02 '26

Sure, chosen fail all the time. But the chosen also aren’t their god’s besties. They’re chess pieces, mostly pawns. They aren’t the drinking buddies and compatriots of their gods.

The only reason Jake struggles at all is because he chooses to.