Shape-shifting is more useful than teleportation

The fact is that fighting is unnecessary to a teleporting person. There is no need to fight enemies if you can avoid them. In addition there is no way that in a world of you being the only one with a power that any enemy can stop you teleporting to them, snapping their neck and teleporting away. Shapeshifting has zero advantages over teleporting if the enemy has no powers. If the enemy does have powers, it is safe to assume that it would be better to avoid them. In other words, the battle arena example doesn't help shapeshifting's case at all as there is no single, physical way to avoid a fight better than to teleport away. My opponent then states that you would have to see where you are teleporting before you get there. Why would this be the case? Surely if you are flying above, you risk being spotted, being shot at and filmed and exposed as a mutant whereas when teleporting by the time people see you and scream, you'd be long gone. This point is also invalid as the moment you teleported somewhere that turned out to be a bad situation, you could just teleport out of it regardless. Also, a mind-controlling powered individual could alter what you see if you are flying but cant't alter what you see if you are teleporting there as they'd never think of tricking you in time. There is no such thing as a perfect entity. The moment something is invincible, indestructible, immortal and flawless, it cannot possibly find anything useful and usefulness sis nullified as it has no need to use anything in the first place. My opponent says you would never have learnt how to fight if teleporting because you would have always immediately fled the situation but this is entirely wrong. If you are always teleporting, you would be scared to be exposed as you cannot shape-shift your way out of the situation and can be caught eventually if people work out how to track you teleportation routes (as seen in the movie Jumper[1]). Shape-shifters have no fear of being caught as all they need to do is shape-shift out of any situation, they can shape=shift themselves any power they so fancy too, according to Pro. They would know how to fight only using powers, whereas those limited to teleportation may have ended up fighting powerlessly just to hide their mutation form the rest of humanity (as is seen in X-Men with people of varying powers[2]). I tis inevitable that those who have more power will struggle far more without it than those who had barely any in comparison. Higher loss of ability requires higher recovery time. More power is not always more useful, it is sometimes less useful to have your energy wasted on powers that are detrimental to your well-being. Emotionally shape-shifters end up with multiple personality disorder (officially referred to as Dissociative Identity Disorder by those with a mental health profession[3]) and often insecurities about their real appearance as they can fake looking better with such ease that they get depressed and anorexic about the 'real them'. There is no way this is more useful than limiting someone's only power to decreasing their travel times and increasing their mobility throughout the world. Sources: [1] http://www.imdb.com... [2] http://xmenmovies.wikia.com... [3] http://www.webmd.com...