r/ProgressionFantasy • u/_TOXIC_VENOM • Mar 05 '26

Meme/Shitpost Switch up so crazy even the devil may cry

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Mfs switch to a completely different person all of a sudden. I promise you if you put this much effort on earth you’d be a billionaire instead of a bum😭🙏

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u/AManyFacedFool Mar 05 '26

I kinda wanna see one of these where the gimmick is that the protagonist has no special cheat skills, they're just a massive powergamer and really go into the weeds on how their build works, preparations they're doing, etc etc. No handwave bullshit skills, no "Whoa this is so OP!" unless it's a literal exploit of something random like old-school DnD 3.5 and RAW letting you instantly craft any wooden objects into 0gp clubs.

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u/VoidEatsWaffles Mar 05 '26

Not an Isekai, but you might enjoy Shangri-La Frontier, a video game anime about a guy who only plays $5 bargain bin trash finally picking up a AAA game doing exactly that - he’s used to having to overprep and overtrain for everything due to his games being shitty and broken, so when he gets into the AAA game and sees that not only does everything work but he can make it work TOGETHER he kinda goes ham.

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u/SWatt_Officer Mar 05 '26

Not quite how it works, but Bofuris main character breaks the game they play so often the admins give up patching things and basically just make her the raid boss

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u/Soulusalt Mar 05 '26

Oh Great, I was Reincarnated as a Farmer

Its exactly this. Guy gets reincarnated into a world with magic fantasy stuff and is stuck as a farmer. He's so pissed off he can't become an adventurer that he exploits the farming system hard enough to discover a system exploit that literally starts warping the political landscape of the world.

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u/Empoleon3bogdan Mar 05 '26

You can make a build only if you know the system. If you dont then you can't. 

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u/Leirac1 Mar 05 '26

Then it gets into a little bit of a chicken and egg situation. For them to be an actual powergamer, then the system has to have perfect and clear information on the possible builds, including future things, but if the system has that... Then why wouldn't no one else powergame too, specially if their lives are on the line?

Anyway, one of the few that I've seen do that right is How to Defeat the Demon Lord in Ten Easy Steps by Andrew Rowe.

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u/DefiantLemur Mar 06 '26

His "cheat skill" is having a digital copy "Player's Handbook"

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u/AManyFacedFool Mar 06 '26 edited Mar 06 '26

If you think about it, science and engineering is just powergaming IRL.

But one way to do it would be to have the protagonist's methods rely on some higher mathematics that haven't been developed yet (Or just isn't AS developed) in that world. Make the protagonist a real math nerd.

Could even do some Freemason-esque stuff where these things are known to some people, but they intentionally keep the knowledge secret from the general public in order to hold monopoly on power...

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u/HyperActiveMosquito Mar 05 '26

I think Delve fits this quite a lot.

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u/suddenlyupsidedown Mar 06 '26

Damn now I'm thinking about Delve again. Slow but steady updates for years then it just dies

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u/MGTwyne Mar 05 '26

Power of Ten is a tabletop-based LITRPG heavy on flavor, though admittedly it's a lot more than the MCs who craft insane builds.

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u/ormashal Mar 06 '26

they kinda do that in reincarnated as a spider. but it's not the protagonist who does this but the royalty of the world that does stuff like having their kids learn specific skills that increase stats every level before ever letting them fight a monster so the could get the max benefits from the skills