Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24993958-20150609144508/@comment-25555436-20150609234138

69.124.75.20 wrote: My semblance would be telepathy. It is rather easy to defeat your foe if you know what they are going to do as soomn as they decided to do it. In fact, the only way to  defeat a telepath is finding a way to neutralize their ability, or be so damn fast, they can't react e en if they can predict them. Oh Really?

Then shoot that ego of yours out of your system. That's Marty Stuish. If the only way to beat a telepath (you) is so specific (neutralize it somehow, or be lightning fast, both are not easy to get), you could spend a great deal of your time unbeatable. That's just stupid, no one likes a Marty Stu.

But don't worry, if it's limited to just Mind Reading (Which should, as so far Semblances by themselves have only shown to grant 1 ability, not a single more, not counting adding Dust), then there are many ways to beat you.

1-You may know what the oponent is going to do, but it doesn't matter, because Knowing Is Half The Battle. The other half is actually being able to do a thing about it.

I mean, sure, you may know he's going to punch your face, but it doesn't mean you will be fast enough to evade it, much less counter him.

2-You may focus too much on reading and too little in actually seeing what's going on.

3-The oponent thinks of something silly (like Tetris, or porn) that you didn't want to know to distract you. It works against Jedi.

4-You may know what they are going to do...but not the specifics. For example, you know he's going to use Fire Dust. But in what form? Where? In what direction? And how powerful would the attack be?

5-And if your oponent is really undecisive or is not even thinking of something and just does what is most convenient without any thoughts? Like a Berserker, who is 0 " I'm going to do X, then Y so he can Z" and 100% "AAAARRGHH SLASH SLASH, KILL KILL".

6-Or, similar to 1, you may know what they are going to do, but also know you can't really do anything about it. If you are sick and can't even get up, you know they will want to stomp you, but you know there's nothing you can do to stop them.

So, your Semblance can actually be accepted.