Defender and Medic

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Defender noun - Someone that protects.

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Medic and defender are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Medic" instead a noun "Defender".

Nearby Words: defend, defence, defended, defensive, defending

Medic noun - A person specially trained in healing human medical disorders.

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Defender and medic are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Defender" instead a noun "Medic".

The Defender classes in Super Monday Night Combat are a combination of The Engineer and The Medic, and as such they use healing guns to fix up allies while their turrets fend off enemies.

Source: Combat Medic
Super Monday Night Combat has the various Defender classes (the Support, the Combatgirl, and Leo), who each combine elements of this style of gameplay with The Medic.

Source: The Engineer
Subverted in the DS remake though, where due to the relative strengths it's actually far easier to take out the Attacker first and save the Defender for last, despite The Smart Guy flat-out telling you to shoot the Medic first (because they left his dialogue unchanged).

Source: Shoot the Medic First

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