{"id":208000,"date":"2025-12-28T14:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T14:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/208000\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T14:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T14:42:08","slug":"my-hero-academias-5-most-underused-quirks-ranked-by-potential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/208000\/","title":{"rendered":"My Hero Academia’s 5 Most Underused Quirks, Ranked by Potential"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many of the Quirks introduced throughout My Hero Academia<\/a> evolve in interesting ways that play important roles in the story \u2014 but others are tragically underused despite having great potential. The anime\u2019s primary focus is Izuku Midoriya, who\u2019s tasked with mastering the power of One for All and all the Quirks within it<\/a>. Of course, Midoriya\u2019s not the only hero whose ability puts him in the spotlight over the course of My Hero Academia\u2018s eight seasons<\/a>. Flashy and powerful Quirks like Bakugo\u2019s and Todoroki\u2019s get plenty of attention, as do the quiet but useful ones like Aizawa\u2019s Erasure and Eri\u2019s Rewind. <\/p>\n

And with My Hero Academia ending<\/a> recently, we\u2019ve officially explored all the Quirks that the main series has chosen to dedicate time to. Creator Kohei Horikoshi says he\u2019s content<\/a> with the ones he didn\u2019t get to, but that doesn\u2019t mean that some with great potential weren\u2019t overlooked. These five, in particular, feel under-developed despite having interesting uses.<\/p>\n

5) Anivoice (Koji Koda)<\/p>\n

\"Koda<\/p>\n

Koji Koda is one of the most overlooked students from My Hero Academia\u2018s Class A<\/a>, alongside Rikido Sato and Mashirao\u00a0Ojiro. But while Sugar Rush and Tail don\u2019t present many interesting opportunities, Koda\u2019s Anivoice could be utilized in far cooler ways. Anivoice enables Koda to communicate with and control animals and insects, which we often see him do with smaller creatures. Even then, he mostly uses them to create distractions or perform minor attacks in battle. <\/p>\n

With Koda\u2019s Quirk allowing him to speak with the animals, he could have leveraged it for more interesting purposes, including espionage. My Hero Academia could also have shown him controlling larger or more dangerous creatures, which would have made him more valuable on the battlefield. Unfortunately, the series doesn\u2019t spend much time with him, nor does it capitalize on his power\u2019s full potential. It\u2019s not as dangerous as some of the anime\u2019s other underused Quirks, but it\u2019s still a missed opportunity.<\/p>\n

4) Lizard Tail Splitter (Setsuna Tokage)<\/p>\n

\"Setsuna<\/p>\n

The students from Class B get pushed to the side frequently in My Hero Academia, and one of the most frustrating examples is Setsuna Tokage. Her Lizard Tail Splitter Quirk is a force to be reckoned with, and she proves as much during Season 5\u2019s Joint Training Arc. This power enables her to split her body into many different pieces, all of which are under her control. However, they\u2019re still able to operate independently, allowing her to hear and speak with them.<\/p>\n

That last part is particularly interesting because it renders Setsuna capable of doing serious damage. She can scout locations without being noticed, and she can spy on enemies \u2014 things the heroes don\u2019t make the best use of during My Hero Academia\u2018s war arcs. It\u2019s a shame, as this power has serious potential. It\u2019s not as physically intimidating as a few others, but it has great tactical uses. <\/p>\n

3) Blood Control (Vlad King)<\/p>\n

\"Vlad<\/p>\n

With Class B getting so little attention in My Hero Academia, perhaps it\u2019s fitting that their homeroom teacher \u2014 Vlad King \u2014 doesn\u2019t showcase his full potential either. However, it\u2019s a bummer that his Blood Control Quirk is rarely used. After all, it gives him the ability to manipulate his blood once it\u2019s outside his body. It\u2019s pretty similar to Marie Moreau\u2019s power in The Boys\u2018 Gen V spinoff; Vlad King just can\u2019t use other people\u2019s blood like she can.<\/p>\n

And Marie perfectly demonstrates how powerful an ability like this can be, both when attacking enemies and when attempting to restrain them. Vlad King could have stood side-by-side with Aizawa when the time to fight the League of Villains arrived. Instead, he remained on the sidelines, depriving us of gross but deeply cool action moments.<\/p>\n

2) Compress (Mr. Compress)<\/p>\n

\"Mr.<\/p>\n

Mr. Compress is one of the earliest members of the League of Villains to be captured, so viewers don\u2019t see him evolve or fight like the rest of the team. Perhaps that\u2019s for the best, as his Compress Quirk could easily become overpowered on the battlefield. We see it in full effect in My Hero Academia Season 3, when he easily shrinks Bakugo and Tokoyami \u2014 two of U.A. High\u2019s strongest students \u2014 and traps them inside marbles. Used later, this would undoubtedly have tipped the scales in the villains\u2019 favor.<\/p>\n

Compress is a seriously underrated Quirk. While it can\u2019t do much physical damage, shrinking people all but assures a win for the person using it. Mr. Compress\u2019 ability takes them off the board peacefully, making it almost impossible for them to fight back or escape. Even if they can\u2019t stay that way forever, it buys the villains time to get the upper hand.<\/p>\n

1) Black Hole (Thirteen)<\/p>\n

\"Thirteen<\/p>\n

Thirteen is introduced in My Hero Academia Season 1, and we\u2019re told they have one of the most promising Quirks out there \u2014 but it\u2019s only used for support. Thirteen\u2019s Black Hole allows them to open vortexes from their fingertips, which then suck up and disintegrate matter. The Pro Hero mostly uses this for clean-up, and it\u2019s easy to see why; heroes in the anime\u2019s world aren\u2019t supposed to kill, and Thirteen\u2019s power could easily become deadly.<\/p>\n

Of course, that\u2019s why it has the most potential among My Hero Academia\u2018s underused Quirks. Surely the Pro Heroes would make exceptions for Earth-shattering threats like Shigaraki and All for One. Thirteen probably could have made quick work of them, especially if they caught them off-guard. It wouldn\u2019t have made for an interesting story, but it would have been a jaw-dropping moment. <\/p>\n

What Quirks do you think should have been used more in\u00a0My Hero Academia? Leave a comment below\u00a0and join the conversation now in the\u00a0ComicBook Forum<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many of the Quirks introduced throughout My Hero Academia evolve in interesting ways that play important roles in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[146,85,46,51891,85009,411],"class_list":{"0":"post-208000","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-list-feature","12":"tag-my-hero-academia","13":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}