Help
Help verb - To provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end.
Work against is an antonym for help.
Work against
Both terms in one sentence
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Fortunately Famous runs in with about a dozen Net Police officers, odds that even having the help of a lion wouldn't work against.
Source: Anime / Mega Man NT Warrior -
The sequel, Galatrix, runs with this: adding time limits to the Gate Hack mini-games (and the cascades that would help you in battle work against you, since the clock keeps running and you can't make a move until they stop) and junk blocks to the rest or the mini-games.
Source: Luck-Based Mission
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