Tactical Genius

"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
Flawless Strategist/Tactician
Absolute Tactical Intellect
Mastered Tactical Intellect
Perfected Tactical Intellect
Ultimate Tactical Intellect
Master Military Genius
Master Tactical Analysis
Omnicompetent Strategist/Tactician
Perfect Strategist/Tactician
The Grand Strategist
Ultimate Schemer

Capabilities

User is a genius-level at strategy and tactics. They are 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 help make the wisest, most optimal strategic/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 optimum benefit, and make the most out of everything around them to achieve their goals.

User possesses a flawless sense of foresight, enabling them to balance their long-term strategy and tactical moves with unparalleled accuracy. They can intuitively forecast future trends, changes, events, developments, and respond quickly and accurately to any circumstance or situation. They are also able to persuade people and manipulate them to do whatever they want by discreetly using various psychological tricks, easily read their intentions, and discover any deception.

All of which makes the User the most ideal strategist and tactician at all levels, capable of achieving the best possible results in anything they do.

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.
Absolute Unpredictability
Calm State: Depending on their attitudes or personalities, the user is always calm and relaxed regardless of the situation.
Counterstrategy Tactics
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.
Preparation Time Intuition
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

Techniques

Ambush Tactics: to possess incredibly extensive knowledge and skill in ambush tactics.
Assassination Tactics: to possess incredibly extensive knowledge and skill in assasination.
Counterstrategy Tactics: to possess incredibly extensive knowledge and skill in countering.
Infiltration Tactics: possesses incredibly extensive knowledge and skill in many types and ways of infiltration.

Associations

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 a better user of this power.
Weak against Strategy Manipulation.

Known Users

See Also: The Strategist

Anime/Manga/Manhwa

Sōsuke Aizen (Bleach)
Kisuke Urahara (Bleach)
Aion (Chrono Crusade)
Schneizel el Britannia (Code Geass)
Lelouch vi 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 (Classroom Of The Elite)
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 (DC Comics/Wildstorm)
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)
Number Five (The Umbrella Academy)

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)