Level 4 doesn't necessarily get rid of any weakness's your power has, let's not forget that it's been said multiple times that the direction that your power goes is fairly unpredictable since it's not a set path but rather forged by your mental state, mentality, view's and a ton of other things.
Xanthe said something to the effect of "Level 4 is when your weaknesses tend to stop mattering". Plus we already got the hint that the MC's lightning "weakness" isn't actually a weakness at all, but a supercharging of energy his body presently can't handle. And we know he knows this now because he saw Syla's fight against Indra, where she used the energy from that electricity to finish erasing the MC's existence from Indra's mind. It is true that Level 4 can be unpredictable, but this has been set up for so incredibly long that I have gone on record saying that him getting hit by electricity is going to be what triggers the Level 4 evolution.
It being the trigger for his evolution is honestly fairly likely, your probably right on that, maybe in a fight against Met or something along those lines. To do with Syla though, electricity still hurt her, she was just able to use it's energy regardless, still did lots of damage to her. Sort of like a drug that deals 20% of your health but boosts your stats for a while. That said it's a moot point anyway since as the game itself has said, the MC will not go down the same path as Syla and will not be able to do the same things that she could do.
An idea I've had is that the MC could use electricity to help him make lasting constructs. Making something that can last when separated from the MC's body takes more energy than he currently has, and according to Ella will still be really draining at level 4. But electricity conversion produces a lot of energy. I think it's plausible that if/when the MC learns to control the power surge he gets from absorbing electricity, stabilizing extra bodies will be one of his major uses of it. It's even already been established that the MC's tails, where he creates his clones from, are electrically conductive. Plus, it would be a fun Frankenstein aesthetic, if the MC brought life to his creations by zapping them with electricity.
Bold of you to assume the MC still won't fuckin EXPLODE trying to charge his phone the wrong way at Level 4...
True, but it will be less "Oh fuck I think I'm going to die" and more "Oh fuck, I overvolted the battery and now it's covered in my blood and guts"
And since he has Memory AND Body, at Level 5, there's a chance that he could potentially Copy the Abilities of Superhumans & Monsters OUTSIDE of the Dream Realm.
My theory is that the MC just needs to ride out the Eye's influence until he gets to level 5, and by that point they would be intertwined enough to basically be the same person and they can assume the Arbiter Form at will. MC just needs enough power to maintain his Ego through the whole process.
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Ooh that enough power to maintain his sense of self bit is new, never thought of it but it makes sense.
Her spawns, the Silat, can copy Superhumans Powers in the material word. Nico talks about it when you go hunt one.
We still don't know how monster chosen work in the least, but given that Syla was mentioned to be a pure Memory (before taking in whatever she did to ruin that), her having the abilities of other Silats seems unlikely.
He can turn to liquid right now, maybe in later evolutions?
I would guess that he couldn't turn into gas, at least not completely. The particles of a gas are all separated from each other, and parts of the MC that separate from him he loses control of and they then disappear. Turning into a gas would probably kill the MC. That said, he might be able to turn parts of himself into gas. The gas would expand a lot in the short time before it faded from existence, so he could use that to generate force. Kind of like exploding himself, basically.
