Tactical Genius

Tactical Genius
Grand Admiral Mitth'raw'nuruodo/Thrawn (Star Wars Legends/Canon) studies his enemies culture and art to find their desires and weaknesses, developing plans and gaining insight into his enemies that allows him a level of prediction that is practically precognitive.
Power/Ability to:	Have infallible tactics and strategy.

"This is a contest of brute force versus brains. I'll take brains every time."

― Vril Dox II/Brainiac 2 (DC Comics)

"There is no such thing as luck in this world. Rules, prerequisites, psychological states; there are any number of invisible factors that combine to produce an unpredictable but inevitable result. The victor of a game is decided before it even begins. There is no chance."

― Sora (No Game No Life)

"A sure win often requires careful thought."

― Shogi Master (Valkyrie Crusade)

"Grand strategy is the art of looking beyond the present battle and calculating ahead. Focus on your ultimate goal and plot to reach it."

― Robert Greene

"A mind capable of cold calculation and meticulous construction of optimal strategy that will yield the most efficient results!!"

― Ou Hon on his father, Ou Sen (Kingdom)

"To achieve victory while having both friend and foe alike dance in your palm...That is what it means to be a Great General!!"

― Rin Shou Jo of the Three Great Heavens (Kingdom)

The power to have infallible tactics and strategy. Advanced version of Tactical Analysis.

Also Called

• Absolute Strategies/Tactics
• All according to keikaku (Death Note)
• Flawless Strategist/Tactician
• Master Tactical Analysis
• Omnicompetent Strategist/Tactician
• Perfect Strategist/Tactician
• The Grand Strategist
• Ultimate Schemer

Capabilities

User has a genius-level of strategy and tactics, able to see through all angles/information/patterns/perceptions of any subject, conflict, condition, environment, etc. This gives them the ability to come up with plans/actions that will guarantee victory and make the wisest/optimal strategic and tactical decisions for the short and long term at exactly the right time. They can consider all effects and outcomes, anticipate all obstacles, seize all opportunities, adjust effectively to any situation, manipulate all circumstances to their optimal benefits, and making the most out of anything around him to achieve their goals.

User possesses a flawless foresight, enable him to balanced his long-term strategy with his tactical moves with unparalleled accuracy, as well as intuitively forecasting future trends, changes, events, and developments, and respond quickly and accurately to any circumstance or situation, also able to persuade people and manipulate them to do what he wants them to do discreetly, by using various psychological tricks, and easily read their intentions and discover their deception. Which makes him the ideal strategist at all levels, and achieve the best possible results in anything he does.

Applications

• Accelerated Probability/Causality Perception: Users can perceive the information of any situation and use the variables of that information to predict/perceive the paths that lead to certain victory. The user could also perceive the cause and effect relations of their own thoughts giving them the ability to tackle various situations by simply thinking about the best possible routes they could take.
• Calm State: Depending on their attitudes or personalities, the user is always calm and relaxed regardless of the situation.
• Efficacy Intuition: Users possesses great, if not natural, knowledge of how to make the best of themselves, the situation, or their opponent's weaknesses.
• Enhanced Calculation: Ranging from predicting events and guessing where an opponent may be, the user is flawlessly skilled at calculating things.
• Enhanced/Supernatural/Absolute Charisma: Unnaturally high charisma enables them to gain the trust and loyalty of others and win them over to their cause. 
• Enhanced Improvisation
• Enhanced Perception: Users have advanced analytical and observational skills as well as a keen eye for details. 
• Enhanced/Supernatural Preparedness: The user possesses the ability to be aware of how to prevent certain possibilities or scenarios that other people would not consider. On the next level, a user is obviously beyond more prepared than other beings in their world or universe because their capabilities and contingency applications are unnatural.
• Enhanced Response: Users can make the right response in any/all situations, whether it be in personal life, communication, relationships, work, war, fight, conflict, battlefields, wilderness, survival, etc.
• Error Prevention:
• Foolproofness Inducement: Users can induce foolproofness onto any situation and plan there is, making it so that the plan is incapable of failing or going wrong.
• Hypercompetence
  • Detail Intuition: Users can notice, process, and understand any/all details of any situation or environment no matter how small, allowing them to intuitively understand and solve any problem or situation no matter how difficult or impossible it may be.
  • Hyper Instincts: Users possesses a mind/instincts that process the world in the most advanced, optimal, and efficient manner possible.
  • Pattern Sense
• Hypercognition
• Hyper Mind
• Infinite Resourcefulness
• Intuitive Precognition
• Logic Intuition
• Panmnesia
• Path to Victory: Users is capable of choosing from a certain pathway of choices, a number which will ensure the highest likelihood of making them victorious in any kind of outcome.
• Psychological Intuition: Users possesses an innate understanding of their opponents or target's psychology.
  • Psychological Combat
• Situational Synchronicity
• Strategy Adaptation: Users is able to automatically adapt to different tactics and strategies and formulate the most optimal course of action. 
• Tactical Analysis
  • Defeat Inducement
  • Treachery Inducement
  • Victory Inducement
• Time Synchronicity

Associations

• Causality Perception
• Enhanced/Supernatural/Absolute Intelligence
• Enhanced/Supernatural/Absolute Wits
• Infinite Experience
• Intuitive Precognition
• Logic Manipulation
• Strategy Manipulation
  • Game Theory Manipulation
  • Path to Victory
• Omnicompetence
• Trickster
• Ultimate Invincibility
• Victory Manipulation

Limitations

• Cannot outsmart Omniscience, Omnicompetence, Omnichronal Perception.
• May take time and careful thinking.
• May be overwhelmed by a sense of guilt as they use tactics that sacrifices or uses the lives of their own allies and friends.
• May be vulnerable to Absolute Unpredictability.
• Can still be outsmarted by better use of this power.
• Weak against Strategy Manipulation.

Known Users

See Also: The Strategist

Anime/Manga/Manhwa

• Sōsuke Aizen (Bleach)
• Kisuke Urahara (Bleach)
• Lelouch V Britania (Code Geass)
• Various Characters (Kingdom)
• Sadao Maou (The Devil is a Part-Timer!)
• The Major (Hellsing Ultimate)
• Various Characters (Naruto)
• Sora and Shiro (No Game No Life)
• Komei (One Piece); Anime only
• Norman (The Promised Neverland)
• Kiyotaka Ayanokoji (Welcome to the Classroom of the Supreme Ability Doctrine)
• Shiroe (Log Horizon)

Cartoons/Comics

• Barry Robinson (American Dad!); via his original non-feeble minded personality
• Bruce Wayne/Batman (DC Comics)
• The Joker (DC Comics)
• Slade Wilson/Deathstroke (DC Comics)
• Midnighter (Wildstorm/DC Comics)
• General Hawk (G.I. Joe)
• Cobra Commander (G.I. Joe)
• General Immortus (Teen Titans)
• Steven Rogers/Captain America (Marvel Comics)
• Victor von Doom/Doctor Doom (Marvel Comics)
• James Logan Howlett/Wolverine (Marvel Comics)
• Victor Creed/Sabretooth (Marvel Comics)
• Callisto (Marvel Comics)
• Samuel Sterns/The Leader (Marvel Comics)
• Ivar Anni-Padda (Valiant Entertainment Comics)
• Gilad Anni-Padda, the Eternal Warrior (Valiant Entertainment Comics)
• Colin King/Ninjak (Valiant Entertainment Comics)
• Adrian Veidt/Ozymandias (Watchmen)

Live Television/Movies

• John Milton (The Devil Advocate)
• Edward "Eddie" Morra (Limitless)
• Emir Kozcuoglu (Kara Sevda)
• Think Tank (Star Trek Voyager)
• Bobby Singer (Supernatural)
• Dean Winchester (Supernatural)
• Sam Winchester (Supernatural)
• Brenda (Maze Runner)

Literature

• Honor Harrington (Honorverse)
• Scott Mitchell (Tom Clancy's Series)
• Mitth'raw'nuruodo/Thrawn (Star Wars Canon/Legends)

General Grievous (Star Wars Canon/Legends)

• Gial Ackbar (Star Wars Canon/Legends)

Video Games

• Red Knight (Forgotten Realms)
• Thel 'Vadam (Halo)
• Preston J. Cole (Halo)
• Xehanort (Kingdom Hearts III)
• Shogi Master (Valkyrie Crusade)
• Xuan Nu (Valkyrie Crusade)
• Imotekh the Stormlord (Warhammer 40,000)
• Lord Castellan Usarkar E. Creed (Warhammer 40,000)
• Matrim "Mat" Cauthon (The Wheel of Time)

Gallery

Anime/Manga/Manhwa

Sousuke Aizen (Bleach) is one of the greatest tactical geniuses in the world, effortlessly planning and manipulating almost everything and everyone.

Kisuke Urahara (Bleach) can think 1000 steps ahead in a fight, and is the only person Aizen acknowledges as his intellectual superior.

Sadao Mao/The Devil (The Devil is a Part-Timer!) possesses a great tactical ability that allowed him to unite the demon clans and take over Ente Isla.

Blessed with both intellect and courage, Rin Shou Jo, the Phantasmal General of Zhao's Three Great Heavens (Kingdom) was one of the State of Zhao's greatest tactical-based Great Generals.

The man who surpassed Ou Ki and Geki Shin as the Strongest General of the Warring States Era, Ri Boku (Kingdom) is a genius tactician with practical experience in strategy as he serves as the one of the greatest tactician and strategist of his generation...

..., with his opening debut to central China he demonstrated his ability during the climax of Battle of Bayou as he fully utilized the northern Zhao cavalry's quality as skilled horsemen...

...and Ou Ki's experience as a central plains General to his full advantage after thoroughly researching his military career...

...and with amazing keenness in architecture, he created an elaborate multi-layered defense of castles and forts throughout the formerly empty western parts of Zhao.

Possessing the greatest levels of insight, Ou Sen (Kingdom) is one of the most exceptional geniuses of the Warring States, with the ability to predict his opponent's moves. Due to his cautious nature, his tactics shared many similarities to the legendary Great General Haku Ki's warfare.

Shou Hei Kun, the Chief of Qin's Military Affairs (Kingdom)

Yo Tan Wa (Kingdom)

While having never formally studying strategy, Kan Ki, the Beheader (Kingdom) is a genius prodigy at warfare who has never lost a single battle because of his unique and unorthodox tactics.

Go Hou Mei (Kingdom)

Armed with tactics and strategies that match her in grandeur, fearsome with just a hint of cuteness, Ka Rin (Kingdom) is a tactical genius recognized as one of the greatest in the superstate of Chu.

Despite never having a formal strategical education, Kyou Kai (Kingdom) is a natural talent in thinking up strategies and utilizing tactics that insure either complete victory or shifting disadvantages to her favor...

...prior to Ka Ryo Ten's arrival, she served as the primary strategist of the Hi Shin Unit. Her use of tactics shocking even an experienced soldier like So Sui to the point he called her a genius.

Recognized by Shou Hei Kun, the chief of Qin's military affairs, Mou Ten (Kingdom) is a genius with boundless tactical acuity that rivals that of a Great General.

Sora (No Game No Life) is a master strategist and mathematics genius, who can easily manipulate everyone around him, and win almost every fight before even fighting.

Shiro (No Game No Life), Sora's younger adopted sister, is a math genius and master at chess...

...together, they were able to defeat in a chess game God himself, and after entering into his realm, became the king and queen of an entire kingdom of their own.

Komei (One Piece) is a Marine who is very cunning and creates a multi-layered plan earning him the title 'Genius Tactician' he was able to capture most of the Straw Hats and corner Monkey D. Luffy into an almost deadly situation.

Shiroe (Log Horizon)

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Cartoons/Comics

Bruce Wayne/Batman (DC Comics) commonly utilizes cunning tactics to outwit his foes, relying on his plans and experience to outmaneuver many of his superhuman friends and adversaries. He is known as one of the greatest strategists and tacticians.

Underneath his psychotic mindset, Joker (DC Comics) possesses the strategic skills capable of matching or even surpassing that of the Batman's tactical brilliance.

Victor Von Doom/Doctor Doom (Marvel Comics)

While his fighting skills, healing factor, and claws are all deadly, James Logan Howlett/Wolverine's (Marvel Comics) greatest weapon is his mind.

Samuel Sterns/The Leader (Marvel Comics) possesses enhanced intuition, pattern solving, information storage and retrieval, and logical and philosophical structuring.

Callisto (Marvel Comics)

Ozymandias (Watchmen)

Cobra Commander (G.I. Joe) is a highly intelligent leader and tactical genius capable of formulating numerous complex’s plans to achieve his goals.

General Immortus (Teen Titans)

Victor Creed/Sabretooth (Marvel Comics)

Steven Rogers/Captain America (Marvel Comics)

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Live Television/Movies

Dean Winchester (Supernatural)

Always 10 moves ahead of everyone, Emir Kozcuoglu (Kara Sevda) is a strategical mastermind and genius, able to scheme up and control all events of the whole series, all outcomes benefit him to win, and even his own death.

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Video Games

Thel 'Vadam's (Halo) tactical genius allowed him to be the youngest Sangheili to become the Supreme Commander of the Covenant navy.

Mat Cauthon (The Wheel of Time), through the memories he has access to, was able to strategize to such a degree that he could outthink the Forsaken General Demandred.

Shogi Master (Valkyrie Crusade) is brave and fearless and always wins with levelheaded tactics.

Xuan Nu (Valkyrie Crusade) a master strategist and tactician.

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Videos

Why General Grievous was an Underrated Tactical GENIUS

Which Star Wars Faction has the BEST ADMIRAL? - Star Wars Legends Lore

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