Powers Ben 10 Only Used ONCE

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[SpecsTube]

Honestly, most 1 use powers are lost either because the writers forgot or because those powers would conclude conflict too easily.

[Ray-zplm]

If only Ben took time to understand all of his aliens instead of spamming four arms and humongousaur every 5 seconds

[sylveonchan]

"You really not working up to your potential at school." -Gwen when Ben uses his photographic memory once and never again

[JAYDOGA]

Just wanna clarify, Sudilite's terraforming was only possible because of the 3 stars alignment, it's not something he can casually do.

[HMNCLunar]

1:50 Bully Swampfire really said: *"I'm gonna put some mud in your eye."*

[martinadriazola]

This literally a "the boss when you fight it vs when you unlock it as a playable character" situation

[ElecTrick]

5:22 Easy thing to miss, but Ben has done the name firework with Heatblast, too… offscreen. (When Gwen did it in that episode, he says that it took him a month to learn how to do it, but that’s proof that he’s at least done it once before)

[Jonathan_Collins]

The one power Ben never utilised was amphibian’s ability to read minds. Could have been useful for many situations, it’s a shame the show treated him as another alien who uses electricity.

[grymns]

The actual alien being more skilled and proficient when using their abilities than Ben transforming into them is such a nice touch

[briansanders]

If the writers forgot about most of these powers, I think it's safe to assume Ben himself would have forgotten them too. It's alot of powers to keep track of, so it's not really surprising if he forgets alot of them in the heat of a fight.

Also, Zs'skayr's underused powers might be less forgetting to use them and more about Ben being afraid to overuse Ghostfreak after he escaped.

[baronroy]

That Terraspin one might be a case of the writers forgetting, since Ben turns into him when fighting Gwen just to get slowed down by a spell.

[thepoisonprince]

The Chromastone fact is absolutely true. He had the potential to be like a Dragon Ball Character with the Crystalsapien powers

[alimayfield]

I feel like the writers just didn't utilize these abilities because they either forget, or thought they would've made the fight less climatic as some of these are genuinely powerful.

[douglysium]

3:02 The Ditto tranformation no longer needing to them fuse can probably be attributed to the new updated omnitrix in Omniverse but at the same time if it isn't confirmed anywhere you could probably argue that's headcannon.

[idle_speculation]

Way Big having super speed kind of makes sense in that if you’re that big your strides will necessarily be really long.

[DrMDC]

I really wish we got a Chromastone arc to explore everything he could do.

[HGX]

Honestly Ben is the perfect embodiment of "Just because you can doesn't mean you should" especially after he mastered Alien X where he could literally do whatever he wants yet choose not to, probably because he enjoy being a hero and kicking bad guys ass at it's own.

[calvinboucher]

I think for the powers other aliens have used Ben might actually have to train himself to use. If he had Master Control he could probably master Ampfibian’s mind reading through extensive training. According to DJW Snare-Oh’s species can perform magic that is similar to Egyptian curses but Ben can’t stay transformed long enough to properly use them and learn them without Master Control. I think there are several abilities he can refine if he gains Master Control.

[nuanced]

5:23 if I remember correctly, Ben did say he could do the spelling his name with fire thing too, but that it took him a month to figure it out. We never actually see him do it tho. But still

[pyron]

I don’t remember where but they actually explain that the reason Ben can’t do the thing Ship does as Upgrade is because of an Omnitrix feature that resets the aliens DNA when Ben reverts to human form. While normal Galvanic Mechamorphs can remember forms they’ve taken and transform back into them, Ben can’t do this since when Upgrades DNA is reset it also erases his databank of machines he’s upgraded