Build up
Build up verb - To become greater in extent, volume, amount, or number.
Both terms in one sentence
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While this approach will keep defend from being useless it can go to the alternate extreme of having a party spending as much or more time defending as attacking, either to generate enough mana to heal or build up stamina to preform more powerful attacks.
Source: Defend Command - It later turns out that he was doing all of that to build up an army to defend the kingdom against an inevitable attack by a monstrous horde of darkness incarnate.
- While Mario's unable to act or defend, it will build up its mini-Yuxes until it has four, which allows it to shoot five beams every turn.
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