Soviet Reversal or how the reward should be different from the challenge

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Reward for beating a challenge should never boost your ability to beat similar challenges.

Alternatively, I'd be inclined to question whether there really should be lots of 'similar' challenges in there in the first place. Surely it's not a problem if Cutter gets better at fighting, provided (a) not ever challenge is defeated simply by fighting, but more importantly (b) you need to be able to use different tactics to defeat different 'fighting' challenges?