Overleveling vs Underleveling

[Koh]

umm, do you really need to make a poll for literally everything?

Again, the games program battles with the level they intend you to be. So, being underleveled (or overleveled) shouldnt happen, unless they didnt balance te game out properly.

Also skill isnt just fighting, its also the ability of using your resources, defending and managing all your items until the end of the battle, but I see what you mean.

Of course, it's nice to see people's opinions on a chart too .

I know micromanagement is another form of skill, but you can do that while being overleveled too. Again, being underleveled means the following most of the time:

-Damage isn't as high as it can be, thus it takes way more time to defeat a boss or whatever.
-Characters are not as fast as they can be, so if it's a turn-based RPG, the boss or whatever is likely to go first, or if it's an ATB-RPG like Final Fantasies 4-6, then the bars won't fill up as fast as they really could.
-Characters can die faster, which means you'll likely be using like 2 minutes or more of however long this dragging out of the fight could take, just using potions and spells, and revivification items, which really doesn't add anything to the battle.

EDIT: Over and underleveling can happen very easily actually, no matter how balanced they think the game is. Because enemies respawn, one is always able to kill the same goblin over and over until they gain more levels for example. And you know that in almost every RPG out there, just doing boss fights or whatever, and not actually taking the time to walk around in circles to grind, usually causes problems and the need to do so later XD. Kingdom Hearts is a good example of a game that doesn't need grinding, though it does shave off time on the battles if you do.