User blog:TheAura21/Why I think Kaminari is highly underestimated and should be one of the class' most powerful students

Denki Kaminari, the electrifying student who seems to blend in with all the quirky personalities, shows he has some good capabilities and knows about his own quirk and its limitations relatively well. However, he is being slept on heavily by My Hero Academia's audience, and partly even by the writers and here is why I think so.

'''Please bear in mind that THIS IS PURELY MY OPINION. You are more than welcome to leave a comment to express your thoughts about the matter but DO NOT START A BATTLE OR ARGUMENT BY USING RUDE AND HOSTILE TERMS TOWARDS ME.'''

1 - The Power of Electricity
Arguably the Earth's most dangerous natural weapon is lightning. It moves at undetectable speed, carries immense heat and causes destruction to any life it touches. You may be thinking that this has a very minor correlation to Denki's ability because... well... of course the sky is more powerful than Denki... right? Well, I'm not so sure...

Studies show that on average, a lightning strike measures from 40,000 to 120,000 in voltage. Kaminari's coolest (yet most tasking move) called Indiscriminate Charge reaches 1,300,000 volts. Voltage is kind of like the "pressure of electrons" if that makes sense - meaning the more electrons packed in a smaller space, the more they'll "want to discharge" and will. Voltage measures this force of discharge. If Kaminari can discharge electricity at over 1000 times the approximate voltage of lightning, his attack should move much faster, further and cause much more devastation to enemies and the vicinity. Yes, I know he becomes a numbskull after using this, but the fact that it takes over 1 million volts to slow him down means he can probably constantly release electricity equal in strength to lightning itself. Now who in the My Hero Academia world (except from any characters with the ability to control non-conductive substances) can stop ****ing lightning?

2 - His Power vs His Peers
For some odd reason, despite the clearly vast potential Kaminari has, he isn't ranked higher in the class and I think its absurd - he should be among the top 5 students when it comes to combat. Let me explain:


 * The current #2 and #1 (Todoroki/Bakugou) both manipulate a heat-releasing power. Heat increases the speed at which electrons flow, meaning if either of them were to use their heat-based quirks against Kaminari it would be a double-edged sword - they'd heat the surrounding area and make Kaminari's attacks more powerful if he survives their attacks (which he can). On top of that, Todoroki's ice is no match for a high-powered lightning blast, thats self-explanatory.


 * Midoriya's body is shrouded in electricity when he undergoes Full Cowling and his speed and power increase greatly. Seemingly its because more action potentials at neuromuscular junctions result in stronger forces of muscular contraction, which means more force generated upon contraction. Of course this is purely a hunch. However, if an increase in nervous conduction is the key to Full Cowling, then surely Kaminari should eventually be able to use a similar ability more powerful than Full Cowling right? He has direct control of the electricity flowing around his body so it only makes sense. With this potential ability, he could reach speeds like that of Iida while discharging electricity and this would make him supremely tough to deal with.


 * He should be the smartest and quickest-thinking student if he could increase his neural activity not to the point where he overloads his brain and becomes a vegetable.

3 - His Future
Mastery over the element of lightning should make him one of the most powerful heroes featured in the series if it goes on long enough to see the students become adults (which I hope it does). He honestly has so much more power than the writers are letting on. If he isn't as powerful as I say, then why give him the ability to discharge a monstrously high voltage of electricity in one move, which by training, could be pulled off multiple times in succession by the time he matures? Do the math.

In conclusion, I really hope to see him become as powerful as he should be. At first I didn't take notice of him and Tokoyami became my favourite character, alongside Todoroki. It was when I actually started thinking deeply about his abilites that I realised there's so much more than meets the eye and he instantly became my favourite character. PLEASE leave your thoughts below, it would be great to hear them as long as they aren't hostile!!

TheAura21 (talk) 19:35, July 16, 2018 (UTC)