The 5 Most Useless Powers in Big Brother History

Big Brother has a tendency to try and spice up the game by giving out powers. However, sometimes, the powers are a load of garbage. Here are 5 of the most useless powers in Big Brother history.

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CHAPTERS:
00:00 Time to complain!
01:14 The Ring of Replacement - BB19
04:31 The Chaos Power AKA The Redraw Power - BB21
08:25 The Replay Power - BB22
12:03 The Silver Power of Veto - BB3
16:41 The Pick-A-Veto Power - BBOTT
20:45 Ending
21:27 "Be nice to Gerry". "No".

[ashen_roses]

"Christmas, you have the power to replace anyone in the Veto so you can compete instead!"
Christmas and her crutches:

[barbarabavier]

But Christmas's Ring of Replacement power did deny Cody and Jessica the opportunity to win veto and possibly take control of the game.

[coherentramblings]

I actually consider the ring of replacement to be one of the show’s best balanced powers. Yes, it was useless in comparison to the other two powers, but that speaks more to how OP those powers were. Yes it was less useful since Christmas had a broken leg, but that’s not really the advantage’s fault.

Like you said, it can be used both to prevent a backdoor plan against you or to make backdooring someone else much easier. It also can be used at any point in the season, which is rare, as most powers have an expiration date of 4 weeks or less. In other words, it lacks raw power, but compensates with sheer versatility.

Daniele’s “replay” power is another I think is decent overall but was just situationally useless. The ability to play two HoH’s in a row doesn’t mean much when your alliance is already sweeping comps, but it is something everyone would clamor towards in seasons 4, 6, 11, 13, or even 17 and 20

My picks for the most useless advantages would be the ability to remove votes in both 17 and 18, Corey’s bribe in BB18, and Mark’s “save a friend’ in BB19. All of these can be useful in specific situations, but were limited in the fact that they could only be used the week they were earned, which significantly reduces the chance of you finding yourself in those specific situations. They’d all be fine if they could be held on to and used in the next 3 or 4 evictions

[ladyofthewaters]

The ring of replacement wasn't a terrible power. Cody was a strong competitor and having him sit out stunted Jessica's ability to win the veto. They were huge targets so Christmas swapping herself with Cody and being injury-handicapped was a big F U to Jess and Cody.

[SilentPodcasts]

It's crazy most of these twists came seasons apart from each other

[caryanne]

Love that you quoted Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz

[noavink]

i remember watching BB21live and watching jack's obviously scripted reaction to the power and how clearly whelmed he was

[madysonandres]

Could you talk about the most useless TWISTS? I feel like the backstage boss is one of the most useless ones because it didn’t amount to anything because of Paloma leaving the game. I don’t blame her, but it just made what could’ve been an awesome twist into such a useless twist in the long run.

[TheLegendaryMovieCritic]

The most useless power is the Backstage Boss as that twist went nowhere because Paloma quit & Pooch got evicted unanimously the week after due to Taylor Hale karma!

[drewlmao]

I actually kind of like the useless powers because they don't break the game but they can be used very well if you're creative with it

[claytoneason]

In BB 23, there was this one power that relates to the Replay Power, but it makes the current HOH(which is Tiffany Mitchell) win another HOH competition and become HOH again for the second week in a row after being dethroned by a secret HOH(Claire). And this power is called the Coin of Destiny.

[ackattack]

Silver veto was a stupid idea that the producers should’ve known wasn’t going to work

[MyGuyJustinH]

7:42 I wished that they took the chips of the houseguests that were drawn out of the box before the chaos power was used. It would have made it fair.

[elitettelbach]

Haha yeah not every power is great, but a lot of the time it’s circumstantial, like the Scott example. Props for mentioning the Silver POV since that immediately came to mind for me.

[staceynainlab]

the purpose of the ring of replacement was to stop someone from playing. Christmas didn't get to play in the veto but she got to stop Cody from playing and that helped hers and Paul's game. I found the halting hex more useless. It cancels a round in the game but you are no further ahead. In order to be further ahead, someone else has to get eliminated. the halting hex meant she stayed another week but still is in the same position as before, no closer to winning because nobody else got eliminated.

a power I found useless was the chopping block roulette. No wonder only one person chose to play for it. You get to take someone off the block and then the replacement nominee is chosen at random and could be one of your allies, which is what happened. You have no control over the replacement and you are forced to take someone off the block, the only part you have a say in is which nominee comes off the block.

the pick a veto reminds me of the power that allowed the player to upgrade the veto to the diamond power of veto, but the player wasn't guaranteed to win the veto and the power was only useful if they or an ally won the veto.

the silver power of veto was a great screwup on the part of production. to this day, the veto is rarely used for any reason other than to take oneself off the block. occasionally it is used by someone on the block to take the other player off the block, usually for personal reasons rather than strategic because there is zero strategic advantage to keeping yourself on the block if you don't have to. sometimes it is used by someone who isn't on the block to save a friend but not very often. the majority of the time it is only used if someone on the block wins it to save themselves. if they can't save themselves, they have no incentive to win. the only way taking the other person off the block might be strategically advantageous is to get a bigger target put up next to you. in general, people on the block are not incentivized to win the veto if they can't directly save themselves with it. I think production realized they mucked up by not allowing players to save themselves with the veto, so they upgraded to golden veto and never looked back.

the replay power in the hands of someone who may or may not get to use it as HOH was dumb. I think a better way to implement this power would have been to have three weeks where each week the HOH got a chance to win it.

[thefirespecialist]

I feel like the S3 Vito strategy production was looking for was, if you're on the Block AND win Vito, you replace the other nominee with someone who you know you can beat for Eviction, or give you a better shot at staying.

[Robert-cbqu]

you forgot to include bb22's 'The Neighbor's House' twist.. no idea what that did at all.

[DVal-blhm]

I noticed that for the most part, the topics you focus on covering in your videos all focus on the positive aspects of Big Brother ( best blindsides, best double evictions, best downfalls, best prejuries, best players, etc. ) I've always thought that there were an abundant of video topics you could make simply by focusing on all the bad aspects of the show. lol

[deathbypigxh]

15:13 just makes me realize how much I miss the “Slow Escape” veto music 😩

[kitebrethren]

Eradication would NEVER put a veto redraw in its game! Wait there’s no veto in Eradication…