Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-25615397-20160301032615/@comment-26492770-20160513005007

Adaptive Energy is not a variation of Light Manipulation. Hell, it's not even mentioned on that page. Also, Adaptive Energy is not an association of Energy Manipulation, it's a variation. Now you could have Adaptive Energy, although it being under variations doesn't mean you automatically have it (like how me having Dragonborn Physiology doesn't mean I can absorb the souls of dragons, or how manipulating an element doesn't mean you can manipulate all the variations of that element), but Superior Adaptation and the powers listed under it are associated with it, meaning that they're related to each other. This doesn't mean you can gain them from having Adaptive Energy. To illustrate this, look at Blood Manipulation. It's associated with Vampire Physiology for obvious reasons, but that doesn't mean that you'd get Vampire Physiology from Blood Manipulation.

Adaptive Energy deals with the energy being able to adapt, not you or your powers. The only thing you can do regarding you is energizing your body. The only thing you can do regarding powers is converting them into a currently unknown form of energy. Even if you do try that, the perfect doppelganger will be steps ahead of you. It's superior to you in every way, and this includes strategic planning. Also, a perfect doppelganger is another you, It has your personality, powers, memories, skills, experience, physical attributes, mental attributes, genes, and so on. I repeat and emphasis: it is another you. You are facing you, but a superior version of you. How superior is the perfect doppelganger? Enough to ensure victory.

Again, Plan C is assuming you have a physical form DNA can be taken from. If not, then there is still Plan A and Plan B. Honestly, I'd rather go with Plan B. It's simple and straight forward: it's 50:50, both sides are perfectly equal with each other and both sides have an equal chance of winning. The outcome might as well be decided by a coin flip (and I call heads).