hypercarry

A video game character that does so much damage that success in the game is mainly dependent on that character.

Noun

  1. A video game character that does so much damage that success in the game is mainly dependent on that character.
    • Alice is a hypercarry: level her up and she will take you all the way to endgame.
    • 2015, Dignitas, Hypercarries: Misconceptions and Reality, Dignitas.gg Be it hyper carry, hypercarry, hard carry, or any other term you want to call it, a hypercarry is a specific subclass of the carry role.
    • Her Elemental Burst also gets stronger for every attack that Eula lands, making her a hypercarry similar to Hu Tao and Razor. - 2021, Marc Santos, “'Genshin Impact' Guide: Best Team Compositions For Eula”, in...

Origin

From hyper- + carry, in the sense that this character "carries" the player through the game.

Forms

hypercarries

Synonyms

hard carry