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I don't see how it wouldn't be useful. Being able concoct an acid or flammable liquid at will has tons of uses; protect your mouth and spit acid into someone's eyes, spew some kind of gasoline like substance at someone and toss a lighter at them, hell even the possibility of breathing fire if the MC were to structure his mouth safely. Sure a lot of that isn't as useful as just battering or stabbing in most situations, but has the potential to be life saving in others. How little it would be used also minimizes the chance of the MC accidentally blowing himself up, alongside training and studying, it would be next to 0.And in the middle of the bossfight BOOOM *whops, wrong stuff*
I dont think it would be that useful. He evolves, so maybe the biological approach could bring some benefits in the short run to improve some abilities, from a working landing to a better hearing/smelling and some natural instincts for better reflexes or as mentioned useful abilities you dont have (activated) until now...but considering your mutations abilities there is not much to learn, you can see many more light spectrum than any species, you can transform and heal fast and without being poisoned you got the ability to create some kind of venom...for now you dont know anything about it, is it universal? Does it work on mutated organisms? Humans? How long does it take to work? Can you only kill with it or is it possible to disable people, put them to sleep? Can you mix some of your pheromones in a very light dose to lower the victims defenses and influence them? I wouldnt be surprised if you can crate some followers like your zombie slave with it, but i think you need to learn a little more about it if you want your groupies still look and act human...all this stuff is training and observation, i dont think there is much to learn from other species after we learn to handle our own abilities, but there may be some shortcuts.
As for the venom, it's explicitly stated that it's derived from venomous jellyfish and stingrays, which are capable of killing humans in as little as 2 minutes depending on the location and amount of flesh that came into contact with the venom, and like I said; it debilitates Ella in one bad end. It also forces Klaus to take the forced evolution drug in another bad end. So we do know it is very dangerous. There are probably some whose powers enable them to be completely unaffected by it, but the few superhumans we've been able to use it on have been heavily disabled by it.
Also, I don't really see how studying more living things wouldn't be useful. There are reptiles and sea creatures capable of detaching limbs at will, parasites capable of controlling other creatures, a beetle capable of shooting boiling hot water and other caustic liquids, and even more crazy shit. Obviously now since the MC has a whole new set of abilities, it would be better to master those first, but adding new tricks up his sleeve when he has downtime or reached his current limit, would be helpful in a pinch.