Apollo Blade/Abilities and Powers

Abilities and Powers
Apollo is established as a genius, even by the battle-excelling Marine's standards at the series' start, excelling at all that he does and finding little difficulty in more challenging tasks. Scoring the highest in the performance tests and one of the highest in written tests, he easily graduated at the top of his class in the Marine Academy. His prowess with Haki and weapon-based techniques surprised Galaxy during their first training session. Akainu, Aokiji, and Kizaru have all stated that Apollo possesses the unique potential to become much stronger than any Marine in History, and is already considered a genius above all others. Garp even mentioned that Apollo is stronger than many Marines of the old age.

After the Time-skip, he develops much of his potential and becomes a very powerful Pirate, strong enough to fight on par with several highly skilled new World Pirate's. According to Phoenix, Apollo's Mind is his most dangerous weapon with his skills in deception and strategy are actually extremely high, which according to Phoenix, was thanks to his cunning and imagination as a former prankster, allowing him to fool perceptive and dangerous Top Class Pirates and even defeat Admiral Kizaru After the time skip. He also possesses the ability to formulate complex plans in the midst of battle. After Eating his Devil Fruit, Apollo proved capable of holding his own against at both Admiral Akainu And Kizaru and their Men, before being weakened to the point of exhaustion due to his battle with them.

Fighting Style and Attributes
Apollo is an extremely accomplished Martial-Arts master, with advanced knowledge if not skill in various styles and Martial-Art techniques. With his skill he is able to fight off countless high-level Marines and Pirates unarmed as demonstrated during The battle of Marineford Even if he was not Involved. Through his "My Rule" philosophy, Apollo has gained a strong and enduring body with high Energy reserves and immense stamina by constantly pushing his own limits, allowing him to recover from extreme exhaustion in an alarmingly short period of time and utilise the style known as Manly Fist to its full potential. In addition, his intense training has given him such tremendous speed that his movements can seem like he's disappearing to unfocused eyes, and strength capable of easily ploughing a full-grown man through a solid, stone wall with a single hand; both of which without the aid of Haki-enhancement. He is also highly skilled in using Weapons, but only resorts to using them when absolutely necessary, from what has been shown he uses them with great ferocity and power.

Apollo has shown tremendous agility and dexterity, capable of simultaneously dodging and striking an opponent with no wasted movement. His attacks are fast and fluid, striking in rapid succession to leave very little time for his opponent to find an opening to counter, but also deliberate. He is a highly dangerous combatant even without his Scythe. As with his skill in swordsmanship, he is also a powerful master in hand-to-hand combat, as evident from his ability to effortlessly catch a strike from the deceptively fast Kizaru. While it is uncertain how much his skill he has used, he is still a dangerous and highly skilled combatant. Apollo is also capable of delivering powerful blows that can smash through Admiral-level Busoshoku Haki and block the majority of multiple punches from a multi-armed opponent.

Apollo's mastery of the art form is so great that he uses it exclusively as his form of combat of choice forgoing the use of Shibuki altogether. He has been shown to take down nearly 500 Marine members with only Hand to hand combat. He has been shown taking on the likes of Vice Admiral-level Marines as when he brutally defeated Vice Admiral Strawberry and is even regarded by the Gorasei as highly dangerous. In addition, he was able to combat three Marine captains and four lieutenant level and above opponents at the same time with just his hands without receiving any notable damage

Strength
In addition to his surprising physique for his young age, Apollo has shown tremendous physical strength as shown from how easily and swiftly he put a large hole into the chest of a Giant without much effort at all, using only the blunt end of Shibuki. He also just as easily with a single hand stopped one of Oras Jr's strikes and overpowered him despite it having enlarged its arm and increased its strength several folds. Apollo's strength is so immense that one punch was able to put a large hole through the chest of Akainu while he was using his Devil Fruit, as well as sends him flying back several city blocks. He is also shown tearing off ors's arms with his bare hands using little to no effort. With a single double-fist strike, he can effortlessly shatter the whole of a Sea kings' body into pieces.

Apollo trademark ability is his incredible raw strength with which he is able to perform such feats as launching his targets several metres with a mere finger flick or create fissures with a single finger jab at the ground. An opponent struck by his attacks could suffer damage ranging from broken bones, ruptured organs, or even death. Apollo’s close-range combat skills have been considered unsurpassed, which he uses mainly to intimidate his opponents from approaching him

Even when only a child, Apollo possessed tremendous physical strength. Whenever practicing on trees and such, he would always end up smashing them. From a stationary position, Apollo can jump several feet into the air and across several blocks. Unfortunately, when it comes to anything remotely combat related, Apollo lacks the ability to hold back, and often nearly kills His Opponents. The reason for this is because Apollo has been fighting life or death battles since he was very young (Training), making deadly strikes a reflex for him. At a young age, he was able to send people flying.