Okay so I have this problem with a game project I'm working on. It's a turn based game with QTE based attacks you can choose from. I've been trying to think of ways to have players not just spam their most powerful or most practiced attack again and again.

I'm thinking one way might be to give the more powerful moves a turn cooldown. That's certainly a start. A less restrictive one is giving certain ones utility against certain types of opponents.

Here is the rub, I want these QTEs to advance in power as the player uses them successfully. But that might stop them experimenting with more situational or stop using moves that have fallen behind. I think an interesting way to address this is to sort of have a move evolution system. where the move goes dormant for a while after hitting a level threshold. It's kind of heavy handed but the move will be notably more powerful once it finishes.

I could also implement an exp bonus/ penalty dependent on how far a move level is from an average of all known moves, So experimenting with a move you haven't tried before will feel good because it will level very fast.