Orion/Abilities and Powers

Abilities and Powers
Orion is without a doubt one of the crew's strongest fighters, and a dangerous fighter overall. Even without being the captain, Orion gives off an aura of command and indomitability. This is due to his former position as Leader of the Syndicate, a massive underground organization, thus displaying his leadership skills. Not only this, but Orion is a skilled tactician, making him even more dangerous.

While Hiro typically fights the strongest enemy, Orion gets the third or fourth strongest typically. To add insult to injury, Orion is a skilled hand to hand combatant, with a powerful body. The only thing that can overshadow his fighting skill, is his marksmanship. Being the Sniper of the crew, Orion demonstrates a masterful use of ranged weaponry. Despite using bullets, he demonstrates his mastery of his devil fruit by using solar energy as ammunition, showing mastery of both firearms, and his.

Hand-to-Hand Combat
Though Orion does not properly know any martial arts like Hiro or Hana do, he is adept with hand to hand combat. Able to perfectly use his body and Devil Fruit in conjunction, Orion can properly display his physical abilities such as his inhuman strength and speed against foes. Able to use his Devil Fruit proficiently, he can increase his speed, and the effectiveness if his attacks by imbuing them with solar energy. He is also able to use all of his body parts efficiently, such as his arms, and legs, to deliver immensely powerful blows, Devil Fruit or not.

As noted by multiple people, Orion shows much promise and potential in the future as a Martial Artist. After the Timeskip, his skill increases as he adds his new mastery of Haki to his arsenal of skills, thus making him that more powerful.

Devil Fruit
Sometime during his childhood, Orion consumed the Taiyo Taiyo no Mi, a -class which grants him the ability to produce, manipulate, and absorb solar energy. The solar energy can be used for a variety of uses in and out of combat. This solar energy can be used to amplify the user's physical attacks. Not only this, but the user can fashion beams out of this solar energy, which is reminiscent of the 's beams, however typically larger in size. The solar energy is quite hot, and can burn, and disintegrate foes, making it quite the offensive fruit. Another ability granted upon consumption, is an immunity to heat, meaning something such as the, or would not burn the user, however the attack's force would probably damage the user upon impact.

With this fruit, Orion utilizes the solar energy as ammunition for his guns, rather than real bullets. Not only this, but he utilizes it to increase his overall mobility in battle. Due to his ability to manipulate the energy to his whim, he is able to change the direction of his "bullet" if it happened to miss his target, making it thereby deadlier than it would typically be perceived to be.

Despite this fruit's immense power, water can cancel out there powers effectively, even if not submerged. Those who use water based combat like or, can cancel out the powers of the fruit. Upon contact, both sides are canceled out and turns into steam. As shown during their fight, Hiro was able to effectively counter the solar energy with electricity. As explained by Kurenai, the solidness, and the heat of the air surrounding the electric current, effectively canceled out the solar energy. Other fruits that grant heat immunity or resistance, will not be effected by the heat aspect of this fruit, and can there by combat it on equal terms. Other than that, the user is also affected by the standard Devil Fruit weakness.

Marksmanship
Orion is undoubtedly a master {{op|Sniper|marksman]]. To complement this, Orion is extremely proficient with a firearm, capable of using two in perfect synchronization. To make matters worse, his eyesight and reflexes are off oc the charts, allowing him to shoot a moving target from some distance away. That said, he is also perfectly capable of utilizing one gun while propelling itself with the other, as well as having the ability to fight with his legs while armed with both guns.

Orion's most preferred style is utilizing dual pistols. Despite this, he can utilize one pistol just as efficiently as two. Able to effectively fight off, and defeat numerous strong foes, including his own Captain, powerful Vice Admirals, and various pirates. After his training with Chiron, his marksmanship has excelled even further than any human could imagine, allowing him to face foes that he could not even imagine before the Timeskip.

A major problem that struck Orion, was his inability to control his solar energy output while firing it. During his time with his new crew, he showed improvement of this in each new fight, finally perfecting his control over this skill during his fight with Schnell. After his training with Chiron, Orion shows no problem controlling his output, allowing him to shoot more efficiently and fight longer without fatigue.

After the Timeskip, Orion is shown to now be more proficient with single gun usage, and no weapons at all, displaying new levels of physical ability, and marksmanship.

Orion's Guns
Orion has been shown to utilize two specific sets of guns. These sets are:
 * 1) Alpha and Omega
 * 2) Algol Pistols

Haki
Even before the Timeskip, Orion was shown to be knowledgeable of, and somewhat proficient at using. This is initially shown when fighting Hiro, he was able to coat his fist in, albeit having to once concentrate hard to do so. He was able to also utilize, although he could not attack, and use it at the same time.

After the Timeskip, Orion is shown to have much more control over his Haki, able to coat his hand with Busoshoku Haki with ease, as well as use Kenbunshoku Haki to locate numerous hidden enemies and effectively snipe them. Along with this, he has shown the skill to use both in conjunction as shown when he hardened his fists, and dodged multiple bullets at the same time.

While fighting Arco, a Logia-class user after the Timeskip, Orion to kick him quickly and elbow him, displaying his now masterful use of Busoshoku Haki. Later, while facing Hyperion, Orion demonstrated a Kenbunshoku Haki so exceptional that he was able to avoid numerous light speed attacks, revealing that Orion specializes in Kenbunshoku Haki.