Basic Trope: A character reveals that another character who beat them somehow only won because they let them. * Straight: Alice is fighting Dracone and after a long, arduous battle, she wins. He later reveals that he let her win for reasons unknown. * Exaggerated: Alice fights Dracone several hundred times, winning each time by the skin of her teeth. Dracone reveals that he was letting her win each time. * Justified: Dracone is looking for a successor and sees great poetential in Alice. By letting her win he he sets up a better a better dragon for his employer. However, if he she didn't meet his standards he would have killed her than and there. either outcome worked for him. * Inverted: Alice gives up against Dracone. * Alice gloats after beating Dracone, saying that def