Flechette wasn’t a breaker, though her power came close. Technically, she was a striker, a cape with the ability to apply some effect by touch or at point-blank range.
Yeah, but what exactly is that effect?
Also, point-blank meaning within touching distance or so is a common misconception, at least within the context for firing guns. It actually means within such a range that you don’t have to adjust your aim due to gravity.
The striker classification could include certain breaker effects as they were applied to things other than the cape themselves, but not always.
Makes sense. So then what you’re leading up to here is that your power allows you to make your projectiles break the rules?
Other strikers included those who used energy weapons, those who had certain kinds of superstrength that weren’t accompanied by durability and those with pyrokinesis or such that didn’t extend more than a foot around them.
Hm, so it’s really more about the range than anything else?
The way she used her ability, coupled with the intuitive understanding of angles, trajectories and timing she got from her secondary powers, gave her a low rating as a ‘blaster’. A cape with a ranged attack.
Fair enough, I suppose.
And I guess Lung is a Blaster specifically because his pyrokinesis doesn’t belong in the Striker category, then.
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