Describing a character, weapon, strategy, or option that is disproportionately strong compared to its alternatives, breaking a game's intended competitive balance — a distinct meaning from the unrelated slang term "Op" (opposition/opponent), which happens to share the same three-letter abbreviation.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"That new weapon is completely overpowered, nobody uses anything else now."
LORE & ORIGIN
Standard competitive gaming vocabulary since at least the late 1990s, used whenever a balance imbalance becomes severe enough that a specific option dominates over all reasonable alternatives, eventually inspiring the standalone catchphrase "OP pls nerf."
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