"Final Fantasy" on the Famicom
(I have been learning Japanese for several years, and video games are fun reading practice material).
I have had a bit of a Solo Challenge project lately - where class changes have been allowed - and I have finished Fighter (very easy), Red Mage (easy) and Black Belt (rough, but fairly easy, mostly later in the game, when Black Belt got crazy fist attacks thanks to extra hits).
I started White Mage a while ago, and that guy definitely heavily relies on the RUSE spell, which is actually incredibly useful against physical attacks;
I threw that spell 3 times during the fight against Garland, at LV5, and he didn't hit me a single time after that.