I should've specified more. I don't think Johnny's a stupid kid or anything. Rather he's just ignorant when it comes to using his abilities to the fullest. Or I guess another way to put it would be incompetent. He doesn't always seem to use the abilities that would end the fight quickest, and my point was that while he's likely to use multiple abilities, it's unlikely he'd use most, much less all of his abilities. If I had to take a guess, Johnny's probably used some powers that he only abused once or twice in the series, and it was never acknowledged again, right?
Nah. Johnny literally opens with his strongest attacks, and he definitely uses those specific abilities to their fullest. This also applies to his other abilities like Teleportation (this is a big one), Invisibility, Heat/Weather Manipulation (due to his Heat Mode transformation), and more. You're right on the fact that Johnny will use most of his abilities (outside of the abilities he used like only once).
While Pain Tolerance is useful, I think people give it more credit than it's worth. It's essentially fighting through the pain of attacks. You can still get brutalized, but the characters can usually continue fighting despite their injuries and whatnot. Take Garo from OPM for example. He can be stabbed/impaled, beat up numerous times, and poisoned, and he can still keep fighting despite all that.
One thing to note is there are levels of pain tolerance. Some people can tolerate bruises, some people can tolerate both of their arms being ripped off. I'm unsure of how good Johnny's pain tolerance is here.
I also don't know much about elasticity, but I don't recall that inherently making it harder to damage a character.
Reading Johnny's Pain Tolerance shows that he can tolerate broken bones, as well as having his DNA mutated, beat up numerous times, electrocuted, burnt, and much more. This comes from him doing over 10,000 experiments. For Elasticity, while it won't make it harder to damage a character, it will make it harder to kill that character.
Well at least that clears up the range more precisely (To be fair, the explosion doesn't exceed the city, it's the mushroom cloud. The part that matters is the center collum)
Are you talking about the yellow-orange-ish part of the explosion? If so, then that part also exceeds the city. Play the link back and examine the explosion, and you'll see what I'm talking about.
While I don't doubt that, has he shown in character to abuse range via flight to take down opponents from afar? Lots of characters can fly, but most don't abuse their range and just spam ranged attacks, and rather attack them physically or go in close after a few attacks.
1. Johnny X is a ranged fighter. CQC/H2H is something he doesn't do in character.
2. I wouldn't say Johnny would abuse flight, but he will definitely use it to at least gain some distance. I apologize if I exaggerated it a bit.
3. Spamming ranged attacks is what Johnny would do here, along with pretty much every fight he would get into.
That's a bit of a shame for Johnny. Think that's one of his more useful abilities. But if he's only used it once, it does seem unlikely he'd use it again. Though that does kind of go back to my point earlier about Johnny being incompetent when it comes to fighting (That isn't to say he's stupid or completely inexperienced) as Telekinesis is a very useful ability. I mean, just like at IDW Silver, lol.
Yeah, but he can definitely make that up with the numerous abilities he has other than that.
Huh, the video isn't available to me for some reason. But I believe you. Though could you clarify on him spamming it? I thought you mentioned that earlier on.
I will provide you with links regardless if the video(s) are available to you or not.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9. So yeah, will spam Teleportation like his life depends on it.
I think with teleportation he can certainly keep his distance assuming he spams it. Though is his first instinct to teleport as far away from his opponent as possible, or does he typically use it to dodge an attack and appear near the enemy, but not in their direct line of sight?
Johnny will spam it (already explained above). Johnny will teleport in any desirable position. He won't teleport extremely far distances unless needed (which he will likely do here since Sonic can jump kilometers high in the air).
I don't think he's an idiot, but I do find him outsmarting Sonic pretty difficult. At least in combat. Sonic outside of combat is also pretty smart. He can usually somewhat keep up with Tails rants and instructions and going by the games which the comics are supposed to follow, he created his own Biplane (The plane we see in Sonic 2, 3, and later on in the series is the plane Sonic built).
Intelligence: Varies from Below Average to Above Average in his best showings (Johnny's intelligence varies drastically depending on each episode. In some instances, he has shown to be capable of outsmarting Susan and Mary, who are geniuses, and while more often than not, he'll use fear tactics instead of sheer wit to "outsmart" his sisters,
he has shown to be capable of using other methods other than fear tactics to outsmart his sisters. He is also capable of using the environment around him in very creative ways. Johnny has also come up with creative or clever plans that end up saving the day. However, Johnny isn't very academically remarkable. He thought 2+2 equaled Monster Truck, and has received a lot of bad grades in school, although the latter mostly stems from laziness).
Johnny at his best, can outsmart people as smart as Susan and Mary (who are Extraordinary Geniuses). While this doesn't make Johnny a genius (that's wanking), but to say he can't outsmart geniuses, let alone someone like Sonic, is a bit of a stretch.
While his ability to dodge does seem relatively impressive, it should be noted the lasers were stationary. Sonic would be moving at high speeds. Especially if you account for him likely getting faster as that fight goes on.
The lasers were definitely stationary, but that shouldn't take away from this at all. At first, Johnny should be able to do this before Sonic becomes too fast. Though, it's unlikely Johnny would even do this, as he has Teleportation.
Has he shown control over more of his body? Because what if Sonic decided instead to chop his torso in half instead of specifically his head?
Oh. Then Johnny will have to teleport away.
I guess that's true. Though isn't it likely that Johnny would be knocked out if he got blitzed by a large barrage of attacks (Of course, that would be once Sonic gets to his level and above, not while he's still weaker).
If they become equal in strength, then I honestly doubt Johnny would get knocked out (vice versa for Sonic, and this is almost making me side on Incon).
Usually, when he's barraging the opponent, it's after a homing attack with gives him a short burst of speed great enough to let him blitz people equal to him in combat speed. I don't think he'd be able to teleport from the barrage followed up after a homing attack if it happens in such a short timeframe. I mean, teleporting while you're in the middle of getting pummeled is one thing. But teleporting while getting pummeled faster than you can react is another thing alltogether.
Even with this, I highly doubt Johnny would get knocked out (like I said above).
But assuming Johnny abuses his teleportation for range, Sonic as I mentioned earlier would strategize to bring him into close quarters combat. Whether that be by sneaking underneath the city (He's also implied he can burrow) where Johnny would need to pursue him in order to continue fighting, or even by continuously running away and taking cover behind the many MANY buildings accessible in Z-City.
Johnny has 2 ways of countering this:
1. This one's a little weird, but
Johnny can legit sense events that are happening without looking.
2.
Johnny can use,
his Telepathic powers (should honestly be Clairvoyance) to track where Sonic is.
I also forgot to say that Johnny is casually above 50.3 Kilotons. Doesn't add much, though.
I think I'm going for Incon instead of going for Johnny. Johnny can legit end the fight before Sonic gets equal to his power, and he's extremely hard to catch and take down. Sonic is very skilled, and his Accelerated Development will make things difficult for Johnny.
Incon FRA
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