It's body manipulation or martial arts FFS

NotaNuffian

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I am stuck.

What the fuck.

So my situation of having MC at low tier superpower has me smacked at the middle with him either having horrible bodily mutation like Parasyte, BETA from Muv Luv and Death Angel from Quiet Place or FUCKING MARTIAL ARTS.

AND IT IS THE FUCKING MARTIAL ARTS THAT MAKE ME SO FUCKING MAD!!!

I am a myopic plagiarist with a door seam view of things. It is either Return of Condor Heroes or The Breaker. I would love to throw in some Gosu and Northern Swordsman reference inside but I am too braindead to churn something proper.

Thus far I have plans on telekinesis which to be honest is either too much like the ones in Chronicle or be like Push where he could only move his pistol away to shoot.

So once again I ask SHFfians for help.

That and CGPT just asked me to plagiarise from CNs.
 

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But what kind of help are you looking for..?
Yeah, you're unclear about what actual assistance you are after.
Apologies for not being clear. Still am bit miffed by my datasheet being too one-noted

At this point, I need some help on thinking of OTHER low tier superpowers that could be useful in combat.

Heavy emphasis on low tier, by that I mean not putting heavy handicaps on standard powers and called it a day. Such as Vector Control but now Accelerator needs a collar to do calculation or Time Stop but *insert random weakness*

For now, all I can think of is wall crawling.
 

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Apologies for not being clear. Still am bit miffed by my datasheet being too one-noted

At this point, I need some help on thinking of OTHER low tier superpowers that could be useful in combat.

Heavy emphasis on low tier, by that I mean not putting heavy handicaps on standard powers and called it a day. Such as Vector Control but now Accelerator needs a collar to do calculation or Time Stop but *insert random weakness*

For now, all I can think of is wall crawling.
Levitation? Either for the protagonist or objects
 

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Levitation? Either for the protagonist or objects
Thank you.

Now I am trying to see if it would be too overpowered because flight is overpowered.

So most likely only objects.

Does it tread into telekinesis? Perhaps but not too close.
 

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I think it would be helpful to understand where these powers are coming from. Why does this character get many low tier powers?

While I can think of more, I don't know what fits for the character, story and world.
 

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Do what I did. Don't give them the accompanying plot armor. Super strength? What kind? At that point shear skin and muscle off the person or obliterate their bones. Fire? No immunity to it. The heat and glare make it so they cosplay a first-timer at the shooting range. Their skin blisters every time they use it. Etc, etc.
 

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How about a field of resistance? Any attack that enters within a certain distance from the MC will have a certain amount of force that automatically repels or deflects it away from the MC. Another idea is minor teleportation, which teleports the MC up to five feet in any direction. Or a one-second inertial reduction, which reduces the MC mass to zero for a second, or maybe a few. This can be used to suddenly increase the MC's speed, or help them take hits by having them shoot away upon impact instead of being hurt. Maybe give it a couple seconds cool-down as a weakness.
 
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I think it would be helpful to understand where these powers are coming from. Why does this character get many low tier powers?

While I can think of more, I don't know what fits for the character, story and world.
Slow reply on my side.

It all comes down to one word, "Gacha".

As in randomly via MC own main power.

The point is that MC would obtain random low tier superpowers like a pathetic version of All for One while everyone else gets super cool super powerful superpower and he has to use what he has to not get killed by them.

Turn milk into orange juice
Transmutation.


Do what I did. Don't give them the accompanying plot armor. Super strength? What kind? At that point shear skin and muscle off the person or obliterate their bones. Fire? No immunity to it. The heat and glare make it so they cosplay a first-timer at the shooting range. Their skin blisters every time they use it. Etc, etc.

Planning to have a ton of problems coming with said powers.
How about a field of resistance? Any attack that enters within a certain distance from the MC will have a certain amount of force that automatically repels or deflects it away from the MC. Another idea is minor teleportation, which teleports the MC up to five feet in any direction. Or a one-second inertial reduction, which reduces the MC mass to zero for a second, or maybe a few. This can be used to suddenly increase the MC's speed, or help them take hits by having them shoot away upon impact instead of being hurt. Maybe give it a couple seconds cool-down as a weakness.
I feel like this is OP superpowers but got watered down and tagged with tons of debuffs.

Have the strength of 4 average American male janitors form a high-school in the state of Milwaukee, from 5pm to 10 pm.
Nanami and his wish to get harassed by the Malaysia Tourism Board.

Whenever they blink they can see through walls.
Xray vision.
Eye power.

Something that I had been avoiding because I felt it to be OP.

I wanted to give 4x Telescopic Vision for MC. As in 80/20 vision but felt it could be too OP.

Really tight hand grip, good for opening jars, and almost never drop a weapon... almost.
This is really coincident because I did gave him grip strength of a vice.
 

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strong eyesight is too overpowered. what you should do is a more classical superpower, the one where every time you consume an entire ketchup bottle, you jump 0.5% higher, which is a permanent and stackable effect
 

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Glass strength barrier creation
Taser hands
Ignite highly flammable objects by touching
Grow plants fast
Reshape plastic
 
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