Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26200221-20151211162449/@comment-26812877-20160222005950

Agree. Also, if AAAgentX likes Ben's set of aliens in Alien Force, that's fine. The point that they're the most powerful is the most major problem with those aliens. They're too powerful with very little to no weaknesses to them. Swampfire can regenerate from taking damage extremely quickly. Big Chill can both freeze his enemies and go completely invisible and intangible as well. Heck, Echo Echo doesn't have Ditto's weakness which is the link between Ditto's clones, thus allowing Ben to use Echo Echo to duplicate himself as many times as he wants with no consequence to it whatsoever. Heck, Overflow in the Ben 10 reboot already seems too powerful based on how his abilities are described as. With the Original Series aliens, most are powerful and all of them are very useful in some way but they have weaknesses that keeps Ben from becoming too powerful and decimate his enemies with ease. It keeps Ben very well balanced in battle. Ripjaws can very much indeed rip his enemies apart with his jaws but he needs water to breath. Heatblast has great fire attacks but is obviously vulnerable against water. XLR8 is extremely fast but pretty much lacks strength. Grey Matter is extremely intelligent but not a capable fighter due to his small size. Heck, Ditto's link between his clones keeps Ben from making an army of Ditto clones to overwhelm his enemies because if one Ditto dies, so do the rest of them. With all these aliens having both strengths and weaknesses, it puts Ben in a position where he needs to be able to work around those weaknesses and use his aliens' strengths to his advantage. He needs to be more strategic with his battles. To think more on what he needs to do and how he can pull off a victory against his enemies. It helps maintain the tension of each of Ben's battles and it also helps makes Ben''s victories over his enemies all the more satisfying. It's better to structure, design, and balance all of Ben's aliens in the very way that the Original Series aliens were designed as. To make each alien very capable and useful in their own ways and balancing out their strengths and weaknesses. Not to make them too powerful to the point where Ben's enemies just don't stand a chance against him.