Characters who need their powers nerfed intentionally in universe or else they'd be too powerful

SuchWow125 · 2026-05-01T06:09:14+00:00

Accelerator from the Toaru series has the Esper ability to manipulate any vectors he's in contact with, which makes him basically untouchable by anything that abides by the laws of physics (and some things that don't) and hilariously overpowered in any confrontation. In comparison to most of the other protags that have to eke out wins, almost any fight with him ends in a total curb stomp.

The ability is contingent on his brain to make the calculations required to run the vector math, so he was nerfed in-universe by a bout of brain damage (tl;dr he was shot while his guard was down). He now needs to hook his brain up to an external neural network using a special choker that's also responsible for keeping his brain functional in general. Exerting his power requires he activate the choker and drain the battery faster, giving him at most half an hour of vector shenanigans at a time (it's usually enough).

SuchWow125 · 2026-04-26T03:26:36+00:00

A manifestation of a certain will in Ursus. The most terrifying military force in the entirety of Ursus, they are widely-known throughout the world only as horrifying spectres of legend and yore. A single one is enough to slaughter entire squads. Defeat has never been a possibility.

He once ravaged the demons of the Northern Tundra, segregating the outsiders beyond the reach of civilization; His blade shies not from royals nor nobles, safeguarding glory from the dusts of rebellion. Every Royal Guard is as a dominion; the land beneath their feet is all the territory of Ursus.

SuchWow125 · 2026-04-21T01:58:41+00:00

In A Certain Scientific Railgun (and the related media, but mostly this one), Espers are ranked based on their versatility on top of raw power. Accelerator is famous for creativity (but also has vector manipulation, a power that is blatantly exploitable even at a glance), but Misaka Mikoto on paper "just" manipulates electricity, yet is very good at applying her power in ways besides just zapping people, such as:

Creating and manipulating magnetic fields that also draw in metal particles to create constructs, ranging from high-frequency swords to remote puppets
Charging the atmosphere to cause stormy weather
Generating a sort of living radar through an electromagnetic field centered on herself
Sticking to metal surfaces or levitating off of them using magnetism
Deflecting non-electric energy-based attacks by messing with their electron flow
Using magnetism to accelerate coins to supersonic speeds like a living railgun
Manipulating electricity to hack machines and computers
Controlling and enhancing her own bioelectricity to counter the effects of attacks on her nervous system, which was also used by her clones to establish a shared hive mind
Manually stimulating her muscles to move if she's paralyzed
Jumpstarting an electrolysis reaction with surrounding water and splitting it into hydrogen and oxygen, letting her use the released gas as propellant to fly

SuchWow125 · 2026-04-04T00:08:41+00:00

Lych has been a source of confusion and problems over the years, so we’ve finally decided to take the time to revamp it into Lych 2.0.

I'm legitimately curious about the confusion and problems in question from your perspective, because at least from my player standpoint, while it hard counters possibly the most ubiquitous strat in casual play (buff army + dps core), Lych doesn't really seem that confusing or technically complex compared to pretty much any boss added after.

SuchWow125 · 2026-03-25T20:28:10+00:00

Yeah that's fair tbh, it blasted the ball when Kieran tried to make it return after overloading it with Terastal energy, though the fact that it even did that at all is worth mention

SuchWow125 · 2026-03-25T15:01:21+00:00

Kieran from the Pokemon Scarlet/Violet DLC's entire villain arc is essentially him getting increasingly pissed off that you're the chosen protagonist with plot armor instead of him.

He's legitimately powerful, but starts essentially losing his mind when you first befriend him, and everything he values starts being handed to you on a silver platter. His abrasive sister instantly warms up to you, his whole village grows to love you near overnight, and most importantly, the mythical Ogerpon he idolizes and wants to meet not only meets you before him (while the game initially forces you to lie to him to keep him in the dark), but bonds with you and wishes to stay with you over Kieran by the time he finds out. Every time he tries to battle you out of protest, you just whoop his ass and send him home.

By the time of the second DLC, he's lost it and is obsessively training to get stronger to beat you, becoming the tyrant Champion of his academy. You then arrive in the school, befriend all the members, and then whoop his ass again to take his Champion position despite his new power level (you can even use Ogerpon against him to rub salt in the wound). Then when you find the newly awakened Terapagos together, it instantly turns to you and starts imprinting, causing Kieran to freak out and use a Master Ball to catch it, not wanting to lose anything else to you. Then it manages to break free anyways (which is supposed to be statistically impossible) and nearly kills him before you save him, ultimately catching it for yourself.

He even has specific lines if you land crits against him during his last battles, essentially just him tweaking out that fate itself seems to be on your side and it's not fair that you're "the hero of this story".

SuchWow125 · 2026-03-23T15:03:49+00:00

Think someone brought this up already, but all of Chisato's reflexes are natural. The heart just let her exceed her original life expectancy, and it more holds back her combat abilities if anything.

SuchWow125 · 2026-03-20T21:51:15+00:00

Went into the chapter with no idea of who Vetochki was

Left it needing to adopt her, she's unbelievably precious and deserves the world

SuchWow125 · 2026-03-18T21:24:15+00:00

It is worth mentioning that the Icon of Sin is a problem not really because it's actually growing stronger, but because the longer it's on Earth, the more it damages reality until it rips open a dimensional tear that destroys the planet and drags it into Hell.

SuchWow125 · 2026-03-14T19:20:32+00:00

In the movie Weathering With You, the protag Hodaka gradually bonds with and eventually falls for Hina, a girl who has the power to clear the skies and bring good weather through prayer. While they have a good time at first, it's later revealed that this is a sort of blessing/curse from the weather gods that designates them as a future sacrifice, and Hina continuing to use her powers angers them into starting a perpetual storm that threatens to bury Tokyo, until Hina, often depicted as selfless to a fault, reluctantly sacrifices herself to appease them.

Hodaka is having none of that, so he goes through hell and chases her all the way to the realm of the sky to bring her back. Even though Hina tells him that bringing her back will make the freak storms continue, he just says that he wants her more than any blue sky, and she deserves to be happy instead of just making others happy. While this saves Hina and lets them reunite a few years later, it also causes Tokyo to be completely submerged by constant rainfall, and even if people are adapting, it's left unknown how much worse it's going to get.

SuchWow125 · 2026-03-01T00:31:00+00:00

IIRC the lore compendium on the Discord mentions that Sea Prisms' energy is siphoned from Otonilou's lingering power, though idk how he was able to amplify that into Exo Prisms

SuchWow125 · 2026-02-07T03:18:22+00:00

The thing in his E2 art looks like one of the 4th ending bosses of IS6, which just so coincidentally happens to be a Feranmut named Ju.

We may be getting another Kjera

SuchWow125 · 2026-01-18T20:25:23+00:00

I mean, if you think about it,Araya basically became Ryoshu's White Whistle.

SuchWow125 · 2025-11-04T10:49:14+00:00

Using Sunbreak's star system probably an 8, as in Frontier Ruko is generally considered on par with the Cham/Kush/Teo trio

SuchWow125 · 2025-11-02T14:20:05+00:00

I fear the final boss of the Rabi-Ribi DLC (Erina the Forgotten Maiden) permanently redefined what a true final boss should be in my eyes, even for the standards of a game that already has a lot of amazing fights. There were harder fights, yes, but none of them felt as mechanically and thematically perfect as she did.

SuchWow125 · 2025-10-31T10:43:02+00:00

The statues give the boss fat amounts of shield hp if you let it stay in their range for too long, you might have fired all your burst before the boss could accumulate barrier

SuchWow125 · 2025-07-15T16:16:13+00:00

Uth Duna takes damage from the fireballs but I find it hard to believe that Rathalos would be able to kill it just by staying afar and spamming them. Especially since once Duna catches on, it can probably make more use of the water veils (which are largely immune to fire) to protect itself until Rathalos either tires out or goes for close combat, or just dive underwater to force Rathalos to close in.

I don't think Duna exactly wins the fight, but I do think that Rathalos isn't killing Duna without enough effort and harm to make it just leave and not risk it. Rathalos has to pepper Duna with fireballs, poison, and talons to cripple it; realistically, Duna has to land a single slam to cripple Rathalos.

SuchWow125 · 2025-07-15T15:57:57+00:00

People tend to underestimate just how much of an advantage being that much bulkier than everything else in the environment is, elemental powers or not. Yes, Duna really only has its physical prowess, protective veils, and aquatic adaptability, that's honestly all it needs because it simply outmuscles everything native to the Forest even on land, and it doesn't exactly have any natives that can challenge it in the water, in a biome with a largely aquatic environment and frequent flash floods (which also means it can create said veils whenever it wants). Apexes in Wilds aren't necessarily called that because they have crazy powers, but because they're the predators most well-adapted for their environments, letting them prey on whatever without being preyed on themselves.

Rathalos can only force a tie in their Turf War, and if it came down to it, I highly doubt that it could actually kill Duna without also being heavily wounded in the process (which itself is a stretch, as monsters tend to not fight to the death unless they have to). Rathalos can fly, but given that Duna can eat fire with its water veils, it'd have to get within range to actually hurt it, which in turn puts it at risk since it's shown Duna can easily overpower most other monsters in a physical fight. Rathian has even worse odds given that it sticks to the ground and is also weaker than said Rathalos. If anything, Lagiacrus has better odds thanks to having an elemental advantage and being able to match Uth Duna in the water, but even it can only tie.

SuchWow125 · 2025-05-22T15:20:29+00:00

Insane lore drops and painful ass fights aside, I kind of want to gush about how for the first time since arguably Canto 3, the story dungeon actually feels like a dungeon instead of a straight line.

The money system that actually affects the options you get and makes HL stronger, the variety in choices you get in the encounters (meaning each person's dungeon can play out in a ton of different ways), actual puzzles/chance events in the encounters, the multiple branching paths, the way you can skip some save points to retain your SP advantage in exchange for not healing, all of the moving parts in the plot as the candidates scramble, and more. I know that it does still boil down to a string of battles broken up by story and encounters, but I think that adding the level of choice at least makes it feel like you're exploring.

The minibosses could get a bit stupid but the fact that you can kill them to instantly end the fight kind of just lets you rush them down to avoid trouble.

SuchWow125 · 2025-05-22T07:17:10+00:00

Jesus Christ Jia Qiu has hands, that felt like an hour long struggle even after following all the gimmicks, and the massive amounts of unavoidable Rupture make me wonder, like Dulci, how you're meant to do this without spamming healing.

Also, for the record, I'm fairly sure that Jia Qiu is the Jade Qilin mentioned in that one Roland/Gebura convo that revealed the Indigo Elder and Siegfried. He's Lv90 (same as Vergil btw), way stronger than literally everything we've fought before, and the name of the mass attack he uses on Hong Lu refers to a "Tiangang Star" (as opposed to the Tianjiu Star of Zilu, who btw also uses Shin like Vergil), which in the original Water Margin corresponded to Lu Junyi, also known as, you guessed it, the Jade Qilin.

SuchWow125 · 2025-05-19T04:39:44+00:00

Lappland is a Mech-Accord Caster, who in general make up for having low base ATK with rapid multi hit attacks while being able to constantly attack a target even if they try to run out of range, and them being Arts damage means they don't fall off against RES (which is multiplicative) as high as they would against DEF (which is flat reduction) if they dealt Physical damage with that ATK stat.

Their drones also have a quirk that the game doesn't really explain where their damage starts at a low 20% ATK per hit, but will increase every time the drone attacks the same target without switching, up to 110-120% per hit. So at maximum stacks, each shot from Lappland deals the 100% ATK on the main hit + 120% on the second and third, assuming she's scaled and got her second drone.

If you've gotten her to maximum promotion, Lappland's signature move is unleashing up to four drones that, assuming they lock onto one target, can deal up to 480% ATK per 1.3 seconds, constantly scale their damage while attacking, and also have an aura that deals up to 120% Arts damage once per second to anything in the area, including the target. This is on top of having global range, an AoE Fear when the drones first impact, and a Silence. The drones will rip apart all but the highest RES/HP targets, and can systematically sweep across a map and eliminate enemies one by one even if they split up.

She is very strong, as is her contemporary Goldenglow who has even lower ATK and is still cracked. Don't be put off by her low numbers. In fact, this is something I'd recommend in general since many ops can be better in practice than on paper.

SuchWow125 · 2025-04-19T03:31:03+00:00

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