Energy Absorption

[Belle Hibiki]

I've never considered Energy Absorption to be particularly powerful. Just draining someone until your character is full charged and an opponent is completely drained is ridiculous and would definitely fall under God-moding. Additionally, there's nothing about the Tech that says you opponent has to stand there and take it. Yeah, you can drain some energy, but you might take a solid shot to the soft-stuff while you're standing there doing it.

That works for melee drains, but what does somebody do when their big energy attack gets negated? Aside from just stopping.

Being able to absorb ranged attacks like that seems about as powerful against range as Immaterial is against melee... Only without the downside of Immaterial. That's why I was thinking that the ability to absorb ranged attacks a la Android 19/20 would be strong enough to warrant an Ability.