Ability Tier Activation

Ability Tier Activation
Kerrigan (StarCraft) after ranking up can open up new tiers of abilities.
Power/Ability to:	Unlock new sets of abilities.

The power to unlock new sets of abilities. Sub-power of Experience Manipulation.

Also Called

• Ability Tier Opening/Unlocking

Capabilities

The user can unlock new sets of abilities that are part of the user. Unlocking can happen via training, experience, and/or various empowering circumstances. Most users are limited to specific sets related to their nature and function ("class"), while some especially flexible users can learn very different sets. Talented absorbers and replicators notably can gain not only their targets' current abilities but also their potential evolution's ("ability tree").

Applications

• Adaptive Learning/Enhanced Ability Learning
  • Ability Imprinting
• Ability Intuition/Ability Perception
• Ability Information Archiving/Ability Indexing
• Ability Imprinting/Ability Learning
• Ability Mastery
• Ability Transcendence
• Efficient Power/Enhanced Power Use
• Enhanced Power Replication/Evolving Power Replication
• Evolutionary Template
• Meta Power Replication
• Point System
• Potential Manipulation
  • Potential Realization
• Power Activation/Self-Power Bestowal
  • Skill Bestowal
• Power Refining/Power Modification
  • Power Augmentation/Self-Power Augmentation
    • Power Apex Inducement/Superpower Evolution
• Power Acquirement
• Training Regimen
• Variable Manipulation

Associations

• Class System
• Diverse Interface
• Experience Manipulation
• Genetic Access
• Potential Manipulation
• Power Absorption
• Superpower Manipulation
  • Superpower Evolution
• Video Game Physics

Limitations

• Can only unlock sets related to the user (nature, function, etc.) except for especially adaptable ones.
• There may be an end to the unlocking of new abilities which means the limit to one's powers has been reached.

Known Users

• Alexios (Assassin's Creed: Odyssey)
• Kassandra (Assassin's Creed: Odyssey)
• Heroes (Battle for Middle-Earth)
• Magic Knights (Black Clover)
• Characters (Borderlands)
• Dante (Dante's Inferno)
• War (Darksiders)
• Death (Darksiders 2)
• Satou Pendragon (Death March to Parallel World Rhapsody)
• Dante (Devil May Cry)
• Players (Diablo series)
• Second Origin Users (Fairy Tail)
• Character (Final Fantasy)
• Han Jee-Han (The Gamer)
• Kratos (God of War)
• Playable Charactrers (Hyperdimension Neptunia)
• Dan Yuseong (Infinite Leveling: Murim)
• Koichi Hirose (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part IV: Diamond Is Unbreakable)
• Johnny Joestar (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part VII: Steel Ball Run)
• Adventurers (Konosuba)
• Champions (League of Legends)
• Neverfail Clan (Level Up!)
• Sense Users (Only Sense Online)
• Kim Suhyeon (QUESTISM)
• Yun Jo (QUESTISM)
• Ha Dowan (Reality Quest)
• Iwatani Naofumi (Rising of the Shield Hero)
• Kumoko/Shiraori (So I'm a Spider, So What?)
• Sung Jinwoo (Solo Leveling)
• Sonic the Hedgehog (Sonic Frontiers)
• Agent 3 (Splatoon)
• Inklings (Splatoon)
• Kerrigan (StarCraft)
• Various Characters (Ultra-Alternate Character)
• Adventurers (Warcraft)

Known Objects

• SCP-896 - Online Role Playing Game (SCP Foundation)

Gallery

Dante's (Dante's Inferno) Magic of the Inferno.

Death's Skill Tree (Darksiders 2)

A Warrior's (World of Warcraft) Specialization sets.

Inklings (Splatoon) can unlock sub-abilities for their gear by wearing them in battle, which will either strengthen their gear's main abilities or grant them entirely new abilities.

Agent 3 (Splatoon) can upgrade their abilities by obtaining Power Eggs.

Kratos (God of War)

Sonic the Hedgehog's (Sonic Frontiers) Skill Tree.

Videos

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