Michael's and Met's fight literally has a moment where Michael tries to use the fact that his radiation beams are faster than Met's lightning because theyre made of photons aka light particles to blast him while Met's zapping around in his lightning-bolt form, and Met literally just speeds up to outpace the beams.
-Which makes MC even less likely to dodge his attacks. Though, I don't think that Met can move at light-speeds, for the simple fact that he isn't at level 4 yet, so there's that. It is possible that lightning speed (or whatever speed Met was moving at) is simply fast enough for him to evade Micheal's radiation even though it is faster, as you don't necessarily need to be faster than something to dodge it.
If I recall the writing right, it doesn't mention Met specifically trying to dodge the radiation beams. It just mentions that Met outpaces them. Could be wrong though. Even if Met cannot achieve total FTL speeds at lvl 3, he would atleast need to have light-speed reflexes. Hell, even Michael could be argued to have light-speed reaction times during his evolution trance, when he intercepts Tiffany, landing at hit on her at the very moment she dropped out of it to attack.
Aim dodging is a thing, and you don't necessarily need to have reflexes of a certain caliber to dodge things of that caliber; for example, even in real life, people can sometimes dodge bullets, although no human moves fast enough to do so due to sheer speed, and nor is their reaction fast enough to do that consistently. By simply predicting the opponent, you can dodge things you would have no chance to otherwise. as for Met just moving faster than Michael's beams I just checked and can confirm that it says "the lightning begins to move even faster, so there's that. Maybe Met is actually beyond light speed, or maybe Michael's power isn't actually light speed, though i'd find it redundant to mention his beams being photons if that's so. Could just be a mistake on WW's part, but who knows.
Everyone forgetting that MC's most win comes from strategic thinking that utilizes his versatility of his powers to its fullest to win fights and with his false memories, he now has another weapon in his arsenal.
If he found a way to ground himself with his steel arms by stabbing into the ground then maybe he can counter it. Electricity takes the path of least resistance. Sure Met can shoot it to whatever target he wants, but when in contact in the MC's body it will go down. Potentially.
The MC absorbed the electricity from the taser during his final fight with Klaus and used it to power an evolution. Electricity is a strong weakness, but it's not guaranteed.
It does cut you out off content. You need both of them for the twin throuple.
You won't miss much. Sex scenes aside, I vaguely recall that there's one scene where he's a bit more openly affectionate with them if he's dating both than if he's dating just one (or neither), but that's it. Otherwise you're fine.
Okay, thanks for the clarification. I'm ok missing the throuple sex scenes, as long as there's still story events for them. I got concerned since there was nothing at all at at the party.
yeah I’ve always suspected that MC isn’t actually weak to lightning. That it actually boosts his abilities but he just doesn’t know how to channel it. Considering the power crawl style of the game, MC is bound to overcome this “weakness” at some point so I can see him finally channeling it.
It seems eletricity makes his cells multiply whitout control and then his body explodes, so by itself eletricity helps his regeneration and transformation, the real problem is that he can't stop the process. During his first evolution he was tazed but resisted the effect, according to his words it was a power out of his control because it was not his own power, my view is that with his increased power poll that amount of eletricity was just safely absorbed, i find it very relevant how Mc's power manifests as black lightning, i don't think i'ts for no reason, after all he did get in control of eletricity before safely and used to his advantage.
Technically he can already overcome it the plot just choose not to let him do so. Since he can copy animals down to individual organs and even glands, he can just copy the energy storage matrix of a electric eel or catfish, combine it with high magnesium nerve spikes (or some other organic compatible conductive salt) to act as lighting guides and then just absorb the shock then distribute the energy or release it back in to the environment.
Don't forget that MC is incapable of making small changes like deliberately growing a nerve or a blood vessel because his power works by instinct.
He can make tendrils that produce jellyfish toxin, he used it against his first fight with Ella. Which means he can combine his own workings with specific glands or organs; it's not a single nerve or blood vessel, it's a systemic change.
That is kryptonite levels of plot convenience and bad writing.
Unlike kryptonite tho electricity I really think will help mc in the future.Electricity rn feels like a fuel which mc just can't control.
It should work against small discharges like tasers, but I'm doubtful of its effect on the big lightning blasts we see. An electric eel's electricity tops out around six hundred volts and one ampere. Lightning is three hundred million volts and thirty thousand amperes. It's way more than an electric organ is designed to deal with, it would overload and burn and then the rest of the electricity would function as it normally does for the MC.
