Question for everyone: If you woke up in the body as any of the characters (except the MC) and have their powers (if they have any) who'd you pick and why?
Me personally, I'm picking Deryl. Bro has fucking amazing powers for real.
Interesting question.
I personally dislike glass cannons and immobile combatants. Which means that I dislike powers like Jake's (too immobile, 100% reliant on his power and awareness), Nico's (glass cannon, absolutely no staying power), Nyx (glass cannon, hasn't shown any actual defensive ability), Danica's (glass cannon, no defenses).
I liked Klaus powers a lot. An impressive defense, both ranged and melee combat capabilities, flying. The only thing I dislike is his reliance to a single type of attack, the plasma thing. What happens if someone is good at defending against it?
Bernhardt's abilities work in a similar way although he seems to have less passive defenses and way higher mobility. Of couse he is a level 5 and we don't know how he would look at level 2 (I'm assuming Klaus was a level 2, he was way more powerful than MC who was a late level 1 at this point).
Malik also seems quite balanced, with great defenses against physical attacks, flight and overwhelming offense. However I find the fire theme a bit boring and I wonder how he stacks against someone that is equiped to deal with fire based powers. We also don't know how he deals with mental attacks.
Alice is interesting. Passive defenses, enormous offense, but her mobility is a bit limited compared to the other three. Assuming that she somehow manages achieve flight and high maneuverability, she is a great contenter, but I haven't seen that yet.
Deryl's have a lot of similarities to the MC. Through his ingenuity he gets to have multiple abilities, like regeneration, flight, powerful offense, strong passive defenses through his tough body. However I think he is too reliant on preparation for my liking.
Then we have the timelords, one of which is Deus. While he was impressive against the possessed MC, I'm not sure what his potential is and under what rules his powers work best. Also I think that being all powerful without the freedom to fly is lame!
I think Bernhardt's powers fit more to the idea I have of a perfect combatant. Extreme mobility, a good defense and attacks that are hard to completely nullify.