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Any form of precognition is generally frowned upon as they are incredibly difficult to balance.

I actually gave a character who has a bit of a film noir vibe a form of precognition which is, effectively "something bad is going to happen in the next five minutes" with no context of what or how severe, which is about as far as prcognition can go while not being insanely overpowered.

Being an orphan in a dangerous situation some sort of ESP might be better, like the ability to sense when something means him harm.