Ability Imprinting

Also Called

• Ability Embedding
• Power Embedding/Imprinting

Capabilities

User can copy other abilities/powers and then imprint them into themselves or others, allowing them to make the powers a natural part of them. This makes it near impossible for them to forget or lose the powers after they have learned them, as trying to erase/remove an imprinted power would be the same as trying to remove or erase an arm or a leg.

Applications

• Ability Intuition
• Ability Mastering
• Attack Recording
• Enhanced Ability Learning
• Enhanced Power Replication
• Evolving Absorbing Replication
• Evolving Power Replication
• Experience Manipulation
  • Ability Tier Activation
• Intuitive Aptitude/Instant Learning
  • Intuitive Replication
• Nigh-Complete Arsenal
• Power Anchoring
• Power Inducement
• Power Mimicry Immunity
• Power Restoration
• Programmable Powers
  • Variable Manipulation

Associations

• Ability Learning
• Complete Arsenal
• Desired Ability Manifestation
• Instilled Knowledge
• Natural Weaponry
• Power Replication
• Self-Power Immunity
• Superpower Manipulation
• Total Mimicry

Limitations

• Near, if not fully impossible to remove powers once imprinted.
• May be affected by Power Borrowing and Omni-Negation.
• Powers may be bound to body or spirit, so being forced to relocate either may cause loss of powers.
• Users of Singularity are immune.
• Weak against Meta Power Manipulation.

Known Users

• All for One (Boku no Hero Academia)
• Czarnians (DC Comics)
• Prometheus (DC Comics)
• Goku Black/Past Zamasu (Dragon Ball Super)
• Kazuma Satou (Konosuba); via his Class Card
• Magical Girls (Magical Girl Site); after becoming a Site Admin
• Users of Ultimate Skills (That Time I Got Reincarnated As a Slime)
• Jammerhead (TMNT: Fast Forward)
• Sung Jin-Woo (Solo Leveling); via Rune Stones
• Obadiah Archer (Valient Entertainment Comics)

Gallery

Kazuma (Konosuba) can learn almost any power/skill and then imprint it onto himself after witnessing it once and then using his class card to activate it.

Kazuma (Konosuba) selecting the powers he wants...

...and then imprinting them onto himself.

By obtaining a Rune Stone of a Magic Beast or Hunter, Sung Jin-Woo (Solo Leveling) can imprint their ability or skill onto himself...

...after defeating him, he obtained a Rune Stone from Kang Tae-Shik's body...

...and after breaking it, he gained [Stealth] a skill that was unique to Kang Tae-Shik's status as a B rank Assassin.

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