Pet Peeve of the Day: Main characters that never succeed or get clean wins.
While characters always having things go their way and getting lucky is crap, just as bad are the stories where the main characters never really get things to go their way.
Every arc must have something go wrong, every plan must fail, every fight must be balanced, every baddie will always escape, etc.
For sheer novelty value if nothing else, have a plan just work, have your main character actually live up to their abilities and just casually crush opponents that they far outclass, have baddies just get their heads lopped off occasionally.
What brought this on was a fic where a combat focused Jedi main character with explicit and exceptional training in enhancing her physical abilities always has problems against non force users. I mean bloody fucking hell, your protag is a precognitive trained for combat since essentially birth, strength explicitly on par with/superior to that of a Wookie, and superhuman speed & reaction times. In any kind of melee combat, whether she is armed or not, she should be able to essentially walk through a fight against a non force user with casual ease; stronger, faster, better trained, precognitive, and with literal plot shields. But no, every fight must take effort and she must always get injured.
There is a reason that the Jedi can take on armies while wearing bathrobes without so much as a scratch.