User blog:Holokami/Power Tiers: Capability

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These tiers represent the capability of a power or character, for tiers which define scope see here: Scope Tiers

Introduction
The following is a set of tiers defining an overview of capability put together by myself and other users. This tier is what you might call the tier of "hax", as raw, destructive, power isn't taken into account.

It's worth noting characters/power in the same tier might not be similar in scope, although it is worth noting that characters in higher tiers here generally have a significant advantage over those in even the tier below them, regardless of scope.

Explanation
This set of tiers and the scope tiers are in no way official tiers by the Superpower Wiki, and was instead a project by a handful of users. Ideas and "micro tiers" from within the sheets of powers have also been taken into account, and pooled into the whole of this tier.

Do not take the specific placement of certain powers to display the tier as the absolute tier of that power in accordance with these tiers. A power exists in a position because of its "base entry level" capabilities, as it may have a basic capabilities which are in lower tiers than it's more complex abilities, sort of a "what's the first thing you can do with this power?" idea.

Scale the character's power capabilities against these tiers, not the placement of the specific power.

Tier 9 - Objects
Tier 9-2: General Collection - Capability to broadly and indiscriminately affect a collection of objects as a whole, be them similar or different it doesn’t matter.

Tier 9-1: Objects - Capability to affect a singular object, or a collection of objects but with control over each object individually.

Tier 8 - Material
Tier 8-3: States of Matter - Capability to manipulate states of matter, either a specific one, a collection, or all of them, to the point of being able to switch an object between them.

Tier 8-2: Elemental - Capability to create, shape and manipulate the basic elements of nature, the rudimentary, simplest or essential parts/principles of which nature consists. Be it a singular element, collection, or all of them.

Tier 8-1: Technology - Capability to create, shape and manipulate technology, and technological constructs, computers, robots, hardware and other devices that can be termed as "technology".

Tier 7 - Microscopic
Tier 7-3: Cellular - Capability to shape and manipulate the cells of any sort of organism, including the functions of the cells in the organism. At this level of capability, one could even manipulate nanites, depending on their size and construction.

Tier 7-2: Biomolecular - Capability to create, shape, and manipulate biomolecules, the molecule that is present in living organisms, including large macromolecules such as proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, and nucleic acids, as well as small molecules such as primary metabolites, secondary metabolites, and natural products.

Tier 7-1: Molecular/Compound - Capability to manipulate molecules and compounds to achieve a wide variety of effects.

Tier 6 - Matter-Energy
Tier 6-4: Atomic - Capability to control atoms, the building blocks of matter.

Tier 6-3: Subatomic &/ Limited Energy Manipulation - Capability to manipulate subatomic particles which are a lot smaller than atoms, achieving a variety of effects and manipulate matter at the subatomic level.

Tier 6-2: Fundamental Forces -

Tier 6-1: Elementary Particles - Capability to manipulate elementary, or fundamental particles of all types, such as quarks, electrons, and spiritual particles, etc.

Tier 5 - Dimensions
Tier 5-3: Space or Time - Capability to create, shape and manipulate physical aspects of space within an area of ones choosing, including an area and whatever is inside of that area. OR Capability to manipulate the time in general area or a specific target in various manners, the basics revolving around accelerating, slowing, stopping and even rewinding or looping.

Tier 5-2: Space-Time - Capability to manipulate, distort or bend the space-time continuum, the fabrics of reality in which all exist in. Space-time serves as the boundary of existence, separating different realities and timelines and keeping them flowing properly; distorting this boundary can cause devastating effects, causing timelines to become fluid, even destroying all the world.

Tier 5-1: All Dimensions - Capability to manipulate, destroy, and create greater spatial and temporal dimensions than 3-D space, such as 4-D space and above.

Tier 4 - Quantum
Tier 4-2: Quantum - Capability to manipulate quantum physics, a branch of physics that explains the behaviour of matter and its interactions with energy on the scale of atoms and subatomic particles.

With quantum manipulation, the user can enter parallel universes or bubble universes, multiverses and alternate realities, open portals via vortices and boomtubes, dimensional voids and open wormholes and survive a black hole. They can also enter different timelines/realities/dimensions.

Tier 4-1: Quantum Foam - Capability to manipulate quantum foam, the smallest level and foundation of reality, from which all things in existence originally emerged, allowing for the manipulation of anything and everything in physics to the highest degree.

Tier 3 - Laws
Tier 3-3: Law Bending - Capability to twist the laws of nature/science, physical, magical, psionic, etc, laws. The user is still within the laws of nature/science or the physical laws.

Tier 3-2: Law Breaking - Capability to defy the laws of nature/science, physical, magical, psionic, etc, laws to perform phenomenal powers. Making the impossible the possible such as dividing zero, walking on water or create ice from water by applying heat.

Tier 3-1: Law Creation - Capability to create, recreate, write or rewrite the laws of nature/science, physical, magical, psionic, etc, laws to their command and/or desire. They would need to become a higher being to perform this power.

Tier 2 - Reality
Tier 2-3: Reality Warping - Capability to create, change, destroy, or even alter reality through some mechanism, be it faith, dreams, emotions, magic, or words, etc.

Tier 2-2: Mentifery - Capability to create, change, destroy, or even alter reality just by thinking about it, directly achieving any desired change on thought alone, both rational and irrational alike, unhindered by the need for templates, materials, or proxies. Mentifery is both Reality Warping's strongest form and purest expression.

Tier 2-1: Existence Manipulation - Capability to possess a degree control of a given existence, or existence as a whole, and can bring certain things into existence, freely manipulate all existing things, and return them to nothingness once their purpose is extinguished.

Tier 1 - True Fundamentals
Tier 1-3: Conceptual - Capability to manipulate all existent concepts, change concepts and their definition, create new ones by warping a universal ideas or create one out of nothing.

A concept is an idea/definition for anything concrete or abstract (E.g.: Concept of Time and Concept of Space) in the universe. By creating a concept, the user is able to define its fundamental bases and apply it for several ways or change existent concepts like reality or energy to enhance it or decrease its effects in various scales.

Tier 1-2: Principle - Capability to manipulate all existent principles. Principle are the building blocks of concepts, the basis and foundation for every concept that exists or doesn't exist. This level is very basic, as principles are fundamental truths.

Tier 1-1: Axiomatic - Capability to manipulate axioms, statements, facts, or rules that are self-evident and true, from which the rest of a system, - whether it be an argument, a mathematical system, the laws of physics or more - emerges from. If principles are fundamental truths, axioms are the points from which those truths come to be.

Tier 0 - Indeterminate
Tier 0: Indeterminate - Capability to manipulate that which is "deeper" and more bizarre than axioms. Such capability is completely indeterminate, and exactly what this is is unknown.

Tier A - Almighty
Tier A-2: Nigh-Omnipotence - That which exists beyond the indeterminate, at a level that is above everything, and functions deeper than anything, but not omnipotent, through either lacking something, or simply because an omnipotent already exists.

Tier A-1: Omnipotence - All-power, boundless; that which exists at a level that is above everything, and functions deeper than anything. They are unmatched by anything, and are impossible to define or describe.