Hekate/Powers/Abilities

## Abilities

### Overall Abilities

Hekate is an incredibly powerful gift user with her holding vicious tiles like as the **Butcher** and the **Savage Beast of Grodnensa**. She was one of the deadliest combatants from the era of Nera having managed to kill numerous opponents and the district lord of YS Harbour with her bare hands. She still retains her prowess even after becoming Victoria's toy and a member of the Hero Clan with powerful villains like Office Staff choosing to flee after seeing the large gap in in their abilities and massacring highly trained hitmen like the Dusty Cloaks without getting injured. The full extent of Hekate's power is unknown, but the Hero Killer who had reached a level on par with the clan's Special Forces through breakthroughs with Weapon Creation and Daemon's Demon Mask believes that it's impossible to win against Hekate currently. Hekate states that she would've beaten Engen before he climbed the tower, nine times out of ten but this was mostly in parts a boast.

## Gift

**Overwhelming Physicality:** As it is common for gift users to be born with superhuman physical abilities, Hekate puts all of them to shame having been born with physical abilities beyond the average Gift user. After she activates her Bridle of Silence, Hekate engaged in physical combat and shows her true power with her easily ripping off a Dusty Cloak's arm in which the hitman also had enhanced durability, while also being able to fatally injure and kill them with simple palm strikes and shoves during her fight with the villains. Even Hero Killer's new breakthrough with Weapon Creation which allowed her to defeat the mind-controlled Prosecutor with his gift activated and her newly acquired gift from killing Daemon is unable to hurt Hekate at all.

### Physical Prowess

**Master Combatant:** Hekate is a powerful warrior with over a century's worth of fighting experiences honed from her days as the Butcher. Her overall combat prowess is just as good as Engen's despite lacking his devastating techniques and skill in wielding his gift against opponents.

### **Techniques**

**Brawling Dragon:** Hekate's martial arts and fighting foundation that she utilizes with her physical capabilities. The martial art appears to use strong but straightforward strikes in which angles aren't biased in the performance of a dragon and precision bursts of speed capable of creating an after image.

* **Pumpkin Smash:** Hekate swings her arm upward, angles her hand open into a chopping position and then slams her chopping hand downward, designed to bisect the target upon impact and also shatter the ground below, leaving a crater behind.

* **Clanking Chalice:** Hekate throws a series of direct straight punches onto the target, immobilizing them or sending them flying preferably. Upon sending the target airborne, they are at mercy for Hekate to throw another move to fully string her attacks.

**Superhuman Strength:** Hekate possess inhumanly powerful physical strength, being capable of ripping apart Gift users twice her size. Her kicks are capable of blowing off her opponent's heads and a stomp was strong enough to shake up an entire landscape. She also managed to kill three Human-Faced Plants of the Forest of Immortals with one blow each, while Hero Killer and Rendo were tired after killing just one of them after supporting from each other.

**Superhuman Durability:** Hekate's durability, like her strength, is equally inhuman. The Dusty Cloaks's Red Bandanas' blades were incapable of piercing her skin as they shattered against it upon impact with none of the Dusty Cloaks or Office Staff were capable of inflicting noticeable injuries onto her and she shrugged off a claw attack from a Human-Faced Plant with it merely annoying her.

**Superhuman Speed:** Hekate is incredibly fast as once she used her speed to shred apart an opponent to pieces and can dash from opponent to opponent before they could even react to her. Her movement speed was fast enough to dry off the blood on her spilled from her enemies.

## Weaknesses

Hekate, while monstrously strong when compared to the current generation of Villains, is still surpassed by those of the Elders. When she met Yushin in his crippled state, she didn't even consider fighting him after possibly seeing his past prowess  and trauma from her own overwhelming defeat/beating from Victoria.  She is also very easy to taunt with her deeply rooted fear of her boss which leaves her vulnerable to a more cunning opponent.  Apart from her psychological weaknesses, Hekate is a simple hand-to-hand fighter that over relies on overwhelming raw power and her powerful condition which makes her vulnerable to long ranged or coordinated attacks.

## References

1. ↑ Episode 134
2. ↑ Episode 27
3. ↑ Episode 77
4. ↑ Episode 135
5. ↑ Episode 76