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 Very often in anime, the characters who have a great deal of expertise and a huge library of attacks rarely use all of them. As a matter of fact, they will only use a select few.
This is usually a Justified Trope, as it wouldn't make for much Character Development if a character was able to pull a new attack out of their hat every episode. Further, it makes sense that a veteran fighter would use the moves that he knows work, instead of trying a risky new strategy that could easily backfire. But still, when you hear the Combat Commentator explain that this character has an insane library of powerful attacks, you can't help but wonder...Is this their first day on the job?
Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Mostly this trope is used for niche protection. If every character can use all of the moves, every character is interchangeable.
Video Game justifies this by only giving the players a finite, usually low, number of "moves" the character can do, due to the inherent limitation of memory and programming, even if the character is supposed to know a lot of techniques.
Compare to Limited Move Arsenal, Poor, Predictable Rock and Complacent Gaming Syndrome. See also its Professional Wrestling equivalent, Five Moves of Doom.
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 Naruto:
Sasuke has an ability that enables copying powers by looking at them. Instead of using any of the abilities he sees someone else using (with the exception of one hand-to-hand combat combination), he uses derivatives of two attacks he learned normally (Great Fireball and Chidori), said ability's other powers, and the Combo Platter Powers its Deadly Upgrade grants.
Similarly, at the start of the series, Kakashi is said to have copied over a thousand jutsu. We see him using a bit over 20 different jutsu, many of which are variations of a jutsu he himself came up with.
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 Inuyasha
The title character and his teammates only have a handful of attacks, and they're all really powerful.
Miroku occasionally shows the ability to use sutra magic techniques to do some neat things, but 95% of the time he just either hits things with his staff or whips out his wind tunnel.
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