@guestuser
Most magicians don't have defensive abilities, it was already stated that in mahouka if you don't have some really really good defensive magic like Katsuto or Minami it's best to completely focus on offense. And the truth is Tatsuya has several extraordinary defensive abilities, he has Gram Dispersion and Gram Demolition which are the strongest counter magics there is, and even if you somehow go through them Regrowth will kick in and heal him. Finally there is something which he never even needed to use but still has which is AoE Decomposition, that is basically the best anti-physical barrier anyone could hope for.
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Originally Posted by Marcus H.
We need a weakness that it actually debilitating in combat.
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It really bothers me when I read stuff like that, why does Tatsuya needs a weakness in combat ? Tatsuya is meant as a character who is basically perfect in anything he does except when it comes to being human, that is his flaw, some people keep arguing that it's just something the author came up with as an excuse and doesn't affect him negatively in any way, which is absolutely false. He is being forcibly bound to his sister thanks to the experiment done on him by his own mother and aunt(maybe he would still be living with his sister the way he is now, but no one can say that for certain because he is a slave to the result of that experiment and we will never know the truth unless he gets back his emotional freedom), ever since he was a child he had to struggle just to survive and the scars on his body are a testament to that, even with his current powers and knowledge he still doesn't see how impressive he is and looks down on his own accomplishments.
Some readers only focus on how much of a badass he is and completely ignore the reality that he can never be truly happy, that his childhood was stolen from him and that he can never be a real human being.
Also it's not that Tatsuya is invincible, he only seems as such because he is one o the most powerful magicians in the world, if you're making him fight someone who isn't on the same level as the likes of Maya, of course he will seem unbeatable. If you want more difficult fights for him then ask for characters that belong to such a category to come and face him rather than hoping for a weakness, we have too many protagonists already with more than enough combat flaws why do we need another one who has to struggle against regular everyone he meets ?