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My suggestion then would be to have the stronger character demonstrate an advanced ability that the weaker character currently can't do.

This is good advice, especially for someone new. Writing is a skill like any other and simply needs to be practiced, even if the products of that practice aren't necessarily something you want to share. Just sitting down at the keyboard and bashing out sentences and paragraphs to get a feel for...

As has been mentioned the simplest way is to have the two characters fight and the stronger one triumph. But if an action scene isn't appropriate in the moment due to the pacing or some other aspect of the plot, there are other means. If you think about this in terms of narrative construction it...