In combat, Shadow is a lethal and extremely powerful force that very few can defeat. Furthermore, he can draw power from the Emeralds without making physical contact. Shadow did state in Sonic Battle that he is the only one who can use the true power of the Chaos Emeralds.
SHADOW THE HEDGEHOG INFINITE CHAOS CONTROL FULL
It is unknown what Shadow's full limit for warping time and space with Chaos Control is, but it has been shown that he can warp objects and people with him all the way into space.Īs described in Shadow the Hedgehog, all of Shadow's Chaos Powers increase in power with the number of Chaos Emeralds he possesses. Additionally, he can mold Chaos Control into a variety of offensive and defensive moves and can even use it to heal himself. With Chaos Control, he can manipulate space and time to slow down time and warp across space, and can use it delicately enough to distort space in small centralized areas, such as around his fists or in midair. Shadow's trademark Chaos Power is Chaos Control, and is possibly the most adept user of it in the series, having mastered it to perfection. However, using his full power tires him out more quickly. While in this state, Shadow gains increased strength and speed, enough to overpower hundreds of Mephiles the Dark clones at once. His Chaos Powers are so potent that should he remove his restraints, he becomes a walking dynamo of raw power, releasing such tremendous amounts of innate energy that it forms an impenetrable barrier around him. Shadow can harness both positive and negative chaos energy, depending on his state of mind. He is able to use most of his Chaos Powers without a Chaos Emerald. Shadow is naturally able to tap into the arcane powers of any nearby Chaos Emeralds to utilize their chaos energy to empower himself and can use a wide variety of Chaos Powers as well. For example, Shadow was able to regain control from Black Doom despite him being part Black Arms and therefore susceptible to Black Doom's influence. His will even lets him psychologically resist mind control powers. His willpower allows him to keep on fighting when utterly exhausted, after taking an excessive amount of damage, or when he is severely outnumbered and outgunned. Shadow possesses tremendous willpower and unbreakable determination and, as a result, has absolute refusal to give up in any of his missions and never surrenders he will see his goals to the end. Furthermore, due to being partly Black Arms, Shadow has a connection to the Black Arms' hive-mind, allowing him to sense his kinds' presence and is immune to the Black Arms' nerve gas. Even after receiving major damage, Shadow displays a remarkably fast recovery rate, allowing him to quickly get back up in a matter of moments.ĭue to being the successful culmination of Project Shadow, Shadow is immortal, does not physically age, and is presumably immune to disease.
Despite surviving this, the experience left him with enough physical trauma to give him amnesia. The most prominent testament to his durability, however, was in Sonic Adventure 2 when Shadow survived his fall down to Earth from space and re-entry in the atmosphere before Eggman's robots rescued him. He is impervious to bullets and can take a lot of major punishment in battle before he starts to wear down. Shadow has incredible resilience to damage, being able to survive otherwise fatal situations even by the standards of superhuman creatures, making him nearly indestructible. He has radical reaction time to match his movements, being able to react to danger within a split second. Shadow is extremely acrobatic, agile, and an experienced athlete capable of gracefully leaping over any obstacles that head his way and performing various forms of nimble movements. While there is some inconsistency about how fast the two are compared to each other, it is usually stated that they are complete equals. While Shadow's Air Shoes are credited as the source of his speed, his powerful body allows him to easily rival Sonic's world class speed as well. Like other characters in the series, Shadow can also move at super speeds, an innate talent that members of the hedgehog species possess, and can evenly match even Sonic's speed as well, who can run at hypersonic speeds. Although he is not as strong as characters like Knuckles the Echidna, Shadow has superhuman strength with effort, he can overturn large objects many times his weight and size such as trucks, buses and large slabs of concrete with one hand. Shadow is easily capable of matching Sonic's abilities in both speed and power.
Shadow The Hedgehog's powers and abilities