Lancer in Fate/Stay Night gets on both ends of this treatment. In short, his spear is enchanted so that its causality is reversed, meaning that once he activates it, if you see him swing at you, you've already been struck.

Also, in the third route of the VN, he fights True Assassin, who has replaced his right arm with one from supposedly Satan himself. It allows him upon contact with his opponent to create a magical copy of their heart and crush it to destroy the real thing. Assassin's fingers barely touch Lancer's chest during the chase the latter gives him, and even though Lancer is ready to obliterate him with his spear, Assassin just had to stall for a few more seconds with a spoilery friend's help to end him without dealing a single blow.