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If this can be extended to techniques rather than outright damaging moves, Toxic Spikes from Pokemon. Against the right team, it's the game's ultimate expression of Video Game Cruelty Potential. I savour watching the entire opposing team suffer as they succumb to the ever-damaging poison, especially annoying Stone Wall Pokemon such as Blissey (which even comes with an ability that works against it with regards to Toxic Spikes).
Ultima from Final Fantasy is really cool. A giant magical explosion, what's not to love?
Also have to mention Castlevania's Vampire Killer, the reason why I love the Whip It Good trope.
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There is nothing like showy overkill 
HIGH IMPACT SEXUAL VIOLENCE
In most fighting games and beat-em-ups, I love the look and feel of a haymaker/ straight punch. It's standard, but man, I love the swing and the frenzied look on the attacker's face.
In other words:
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ALL CREATURE WILL DIE AND ALL THE THINGS WILL BE BROKEN. THAT'S THE LAW OF SAMURAI.
Indignation from Tales Of The Abyss.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Burn
The Sonic Boom from Metroid Prime 2 is horribly impractical, but incredibly awesome. You break reality with it!
For fighting game attacks, all of Dormammu's supers from Marvel Vs Capcom 3 are pretty awesome. Chaotic Flame is fast and damage, Stalker Flare deals massive chip damage and delays opponents, and Dark Dimension just looks fucking awesome to land. His normals and specials are pretty cool too; I especially like his Liberation with one power of the Creator and two powers of Destructor, because it just releases a massive spike of flame and then slams them with meteors.
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Fight. Struggle. Endure. Suffer. LIVE.
Face Time
- Ubercharge and Buff Banner. Not attacks per se, but they make attacking much easier.
- EMPs, Spike Strips and Roadblocks. I love being a Cowboy Cop.
- Nuclear Strike or Ion Cannon.
- Oddly enough, in games where you get a peashooter with infinite ammo, I tend to use those very frequently.
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BANG BANG BANG (Blaz Blue - Bang Shishigami has his own theme song for one of his moves.)
Face Time
Since you people are posting videos:
Responsible adult
The Star Powers from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. Especially Earthquake, Art Attack, and Supernova.
Earthquake is effective, but there's also something just viscerally satisfying about doing the Action Command right and watching it do its thing. Art Attack is way fun, and makes killing Amayzee Dayzees in the Pit of 100 Trials a breeze. And Supernova features the winning combination of "Mash A to Kill."
"Proto-Indo-European makes the damnedest words related. It's great. It's the Kevin Bacon of etymology." ~Madrugada
Mighty pirate!
Half the reason I play Super Robot Wars is because the attack animations are awesome.
Edit: Aw, only one video? these
are also awesome.
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HIGH IMPACT SEXUAL VIOLENCE
I love peashooter weapons as well. I love surgical well aimed shots.
ALL CREATURE WILL DIE AND ALL THE THINGS WILL BE BROKEN. THAT'S THE LAW OF SAMURAI.
Marvel vs. Capcom 3
She-Hulk's Launcher -> Air Grab Super -> Ammy's Full Screen Super -> Magneto's Gravity Squeeze (I've actually pulled this off once online)
WHERE'S YO CURLY MUSTACHE AT?
Deer
The Prodigal Returns
1. Play Soul Calibur 3.
2. Pick Siegfried.
3. Spam Rook Splitter.
4. ????
5. Cheese.
Aww, did I hurt your widdle fee-fees?
Reaching the Future, the hard way
I love a lot of the hiougi/mystic arte's in the Tales series, and Tales of Destiny (PS 2) has many of my favorites out of those.
Stahn's Satsugeki Bukouken has always been my favorite by far.
Other's include:
Malik's Shinten Rekkuu Zankou Senpuu Messai Shinbatsu Kassatsugeki
Bunny
You forgot the best one: NO ITEMS EVEEEEEERRRRR!
Barbatos goes berserk and beats the shit out of you if you use an item in battle. Glorious.
One of my few regrets about being born female is the inability to grow a handlebar mustache. -Landstander
Black Hole, aka the "Fuck you, I'm Magus" button. Wonder rocks? Iron maidens? Fangbeasts? Gone in a blink. It may not always work, but it's so satisfying when it does.
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Captain Falcon's final smash is pretty cool, it's also the only one to have a mini cutscene.
Touch The Sky
Yeah Falcon's FS is pretty epic.
Kagome, Kagome
However simple it is, Jump. I'm not about to complain about an attack that deals double damage and negates damage for as long as it's active.
Also, Master Spark. It's the most physically dangerous bomb in most of the series, plus it's a screen filling laser powered by love.
'twas brillig.
pirate girl
Might as well second the Spark.
Also, while we're on the subject, ☢ CAUTION ☢ CAUTION ☢ CAUTION ☢ ( all of Utsuho's spellcards. at all. EVER.)
Also, if you haven't posted some alread,y could you post videos of what attacks you're tlaking about? NOT everyone is going to know.
NOT THE BEES
This is pretty far up there. Badass in a very straightforward way.
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In addition with Marvel vs Capcom 3 having all your team pull off their hyper combos at once is visually confusing/awesome.
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The kind of attacks you'll always use, maybe because they look amazing, maybe because they are brutal or just maybe because they are efficient?
I think my favourite video game attacks as a rule look spectacular, and as a game Baten Kaitos had my favourites ever
About 3 minutes in the character Lyude uses his trumpet-gun-thing special attacks (all with lovely musical theme naming) the one to look out for is his sforzando, where instead of shooting he batters the enemy. [[youtube:0tyZO5Kppu4&NR=1]]
What are your favourite video game attacks?
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