Counters
Places
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TCG has Number 40: Gimmick Puppet of Strings's effect, which places string counters on everyone on the field, even his allies, and causes them to blow up.
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In MOTHER 3, the hulking Natural Killer Cyborg's ominously named "End of the Century Beam" attack places crosshairs on all of your PCs' Hit Point counters before launching the giant screen-filling beam.
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The places you battle in have a big influence on the battle, making some attacks stronger, others weaker, outright canceling some, or adding effects, and most Gym's fields favor the Gym Leader's type and often weaken the more obvious counters, making a fair bit of the strategy getting around them.
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