Defensive abilities, strategies, builds, classes, or playstyles, especially in competitive games and in Real Life - the most straightforward way to get ahead of someone is to take fewer losses than they do or replace your losses faster.Things that will frequently fall into this trope: As the list below shows, this trope doesn't require that a non-boring counterpart exists. The Reliable Ones, if you will - and proof that Hollywood does not always hate boring. Therefore, we have things that are much more 'boring' and normal, but these things often contribute more to your success in the long term than the visually more impressive things. You could even have Cool, but Inefficient, where it just looks awesome, but that is about it. However, the more interesting something is, the more likely it falls victim to the rule of Awesome, but Impractical: You can't use it often enough, it costs too much, or it just takes too much effort to get it. Everyone loves flashy magic, BFGs, and big, thundering tanks.
