- "I'm pretty good at this tree traveling business."
- ― Art (The Beginning After the End)
The power to climb effortlessly over/on steep and narrow surfaces or plains.
Capabilities
User is able to climb and otherwise move effortlessly and smoothly on angled and/or vertical surfaces such as branches, rocks, walls, etc., as long as they can gain a hold of it and keep their balance.
Variations
- Brachiation: Brachiation is a specialized form of arboreal locomotion, mostly used by primates to moves very rapidly while hanging beneath branches. Arguably the epitome of arboreal locomotion, it involves swinging with the arms from one handhold to another.
- Pole Swinging
- Swinging
- Wallrunning
Associations
- Enhanced Agility and Enhanced Dexterity increase the possibilities and range of this ability enormously.
- Enhanced Balance is vitally important.
- Enhanced Leap to overcome the distances.
- Feline Physiology felines have this ability.
- Prehensile Feet
- Primate Physiology apes and monkeys have this ability.
- Wallcrawling is enhanced version of this ability, because the user isn't limited to surfaces they can gain friction.
Limitations
- Unlike Wallcrawling, user isn't able to climb completely smooth surfaces or move upside down without something to hold onto.
Known Users
- Diddy Kong (Donkey Kong)
- Assassins (Assassin's Creed)
- Templars (Assassin's Creed)
- Vulpimancers (Ben 10 Series)
- Wildmutt
- Polar Manzardill (Ben 10 Series)
- Articguana
- Freezelizard
- Teru Sakurada (Castle Town Dandelion)
- Monkey King (Chinese Mythology)
- Crash Bandicoot (Crash Bandicoot)
- Yoruichi Shihouin (Bleach)
- Rats (DUSK)
- Rue (The Hunger Games)
- Protagonist (I Am Alive)
- Cole Mcgrath (inFamous)
- Delsin Rowe (inFamous: Second Son)
- Link (The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild)
- Bunga (The Lion Guard)
- Jack (Marchen Awakens Romance)
- Nightcrawler (Marvel Comics)
- Enma (Naruto)
- Fisher Tiger (One Piece)
- Genji (Overwatch)
- Hanzo (Overwatch)
- Pokémon that can use "Rock Climb" (Pokémon)
- Pokémon that can use "Waterfall" (Pokémon); limited to waterfalls
- Wash Buckler (Skylanders Swap Force)
- Sly Cooper (Sly Cooper series)
- Cooper Clan (Sly Cooper series)
- Caveman "Bob" Cooper (Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time)
- Rodents (S.T.A.L.K.E.R Series)
- Lara Croft (Tomb Raider)
- Nathan Drake (Uncharted)
- Cimmerians (Conan the Barbarian)
- Conan
- Rezkin (King's Dark Tidings)
- Strikers (King's Dark Tidings)
Gallery
Sly Cooper (Sly Cooper)
To make up for his lack of balance, Caveman "Bob" Cooper (Sly Cooper) uses his climbing skills to steal pterodactyl eggs to feed his tribe.
Wash Buckler (Skylanders Swap Force)
Link (The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the WIld) is able to climb any/all vertical surfaces with ease.
Using Limit Over, Teru Sakuraba (Castle Town Dandelion) becomes powerful enough to easily climb tall buildings.
Catwoman/Patience Philips (Catwoman: 2004)