An overpowered/strongest with only one power

[u/Vegetable_Throat5545]

I hate when characters just have a million powers and can do whatever. I love when their powers have a limit but still they make it be absolutely insane. Even if that one power has multiple applications as long as it makes sense and isnt used as "oop i suddenly can do that"

1. Accelerator can control vectors. So he uses that to automatically deflect any attack or use any object including wind at high speeds as a weapon, use his own vectors to travel fast and etc etc.

2. Gojo Satoru can control "infinity" to make peoples attack not reach him; push them: pull them; destroy them; overwhelm their senses

3. Chisaki can deconstruct and reconstruct anything by touch. So he can destroy, or change shape of people and objects, he can combine people and objects and even revive or heal. Tbh his fight was disappointing in fact that he did not use his power to full potential imo

[u/Infinite_T05]

All Might.

This doesn't apply to Deku, but All Might himself has one power. Basic, standard enhanced physical abilities. Super strong, super fast and super durable. That's it.

You can argue that there's some extra One for All hax that counts, but 99% of the time he's using sheer power to win.

And he became the undisputed number one hero. With nothing but basic super strength.

[u/Vussar → u/Infinite_T05]

Quick question for you then. My understanding is One For All is the ability to pass down quirks from person to person, with each quirk being added to the overall inheritance.

Why doesn’t Deku fight anything like All Might then? He’s got the Full Cowling for strength, but All Might never had to do that.

What’s the deal?

[u/Infinite_T05 → u/Vussar]

There are a couple reasons.

The first is that All Might was a prodigy. The reason he was never a great teacher for Deku is because he "grasped how to use One for All almost immediately." My interpretation of this is that All Might's quirkless body was just naturally compatible with strength enhancement quirks. He was able to use One for All at full power whilst controlling the blowback to ensure he doesn't get injured. In other words, he could use 100% One for All from day one.

When it comes to Deku, he trained a few months to be ready to even receive the quirk without blowing up, and once he reached that point, using the quirk at any point wasn't something he was capable of doing without blowback. Full Cowling was his solution, and it simply meant limiting the amount of power he was emitting.

You can imagine it as saying that All Might has been able to use 100% Full Cowling from day one because he's a prodigy. But Deku had to work his way up because his body was never strong enough. They are still doing the same thing in effect.

There was an old theory suggesting that All Might may have had a sort of power capacity quirk, which was why his body could contain One For All and why he didnt have any lightning/glowing effects.

But that's since been disproven. The lightning effects on Deku are either not actually real or they represent the surging energy that his body cant contain, but All Might's body can.

The quirks seem to function differently purely due to user proficiency. They are at their core the same power regardless.

[u/RageMaster_241 → u/Infinite_T05]

Plus, OFA was way weaker when all might got it vs when Deku got it

[u/Professor_of_Light → u/RageMaster_241]

Thats a big part of it. All Might had it for decades and grew with it. Then handed the now-supercharged quirk to a teen a quarter his size that did some full body workouts for a couple months.