how do you go about fighting monsters in games?

[Greninjaman]

When it comes to games where you beat up monsters, everyone goes about it differently. I myself tend to go the brute force route. When it comes to magic, I mainly use restorative magic. What about you guys?

 

[prog rocker]

Both brute force and exploiting their weaknesses. Unless it's Dragon Quest, since I keep forgetting enemies have weaknesses there. I blame poor documentation in-game for that.

 

[Phosphene]

Using other monsters ; )

 

[colours]

as a black mage in ffxiv i just either

a) burn them or
b) freeze them

there's also option c) which is to annihilate them from existence but i haven't gotten that far yet

 

[nini]

I'm for brute force too but I'll try not to fight if I don't have to. As for magic I'm not a nice back-up/healer type... so I'll just tank anyway and die horribly.

 

[Pyrax]

Aim for a weakness, attack as much as I can and dodge when they attack. Rinse and repeat until all monsters are gone. In terms of magic, I prefer dealing as much damage as possible regardless of cost.

 

[Aozora]

I usually go for all-out offense and take a trial and error approach using the simplest strategy first. Like, even if there's an attack that you're really obviously supposed to dodge, I usually let it hit me the first time just kinda to satisfy my curiosity. In games where you fight multiple monsters at once, I usually go for the weaker enemies first, with the logic being that it will make the fight easier faster (depends on the game and how much I know about it of course, but that's generally my starting point). In Pokémon games I pretty much teach my Pokémon damaging moves only, unless it's a high-accuracy sleep move or HM or something lol.

 

[Sheep]

healing magic + magic in general is my preference! I brute force using magic for the most part, and heal myself when needed. playing a healer is always so great since I can heal myself when doing quests/dungeons/etc, which does make things a lot easier sometimes <3

 

[Aulos]

I'm all about brute force. Lol. Like all of those non-offensive (or non-status-inducing) moves that Pokemon can learn are worthless to me. I mean, you never need anything more to play through the main games.

 

[Tactician Karina]

Generally brute force with going for an enemy's weakness when it comes to physical attacks. When it comes to magic I mainly use magic that buffs my party's stats, heals, and status inducing/de-buffs an enemy's stat(s); at times I don't bother with offensive magic too much unless it's an element I like, or a character I like.

 

[Lightning Flame Blast]

Nearly always offensively, unless I come across something that requires more complex strategizing. And usually with a physical approach.

 

[Greninjaman]

Of course, if it's a game where you have a party of characters, then yeah, I will use Magic. I go for brute force when playing a game like Legend of Zelda or Kingdom Hearts.