Is Momo Ayase or Okarun stronger?

Important takeaways

• Momo's psychic abilities include psychokinesis, impressive durability, and the ability to detect auras.
• Okarun's cursed powers grant him super speed, reflexes, astral projection, and durability.
• Momo's powers are more versatile and powerful on their own compared to Okarun's speed and strength.

As main characters in DandadanMomo Ayase and Okarun both have a set of pretty impressive powers. Early in the anime, Momo discovers her psychic abilities when she takes on the Serpoians. Along with this, Okarun becomes cursed by Turbo Granny, who also brings her own set of unique and impressive powers.

Between the two, each of their powers bring importance to the team Dandadan and allows them to defeat their enemies with ease when paired together. But if the two were to be divided and had to rely solely on their own powers, which of the two would reign supreme?

Looking at Momo Ayase's powers

A deep dive into Momo's psychic abilities

In the first episode of DandadanMomo Ayase awakens her psychic powers after her abduction by Serpoian aliens. Afterward, she unlocks a host of abilities, including detecting auras, psychokinesis, impressive stamina and endurance, durability, and more. Along with these powers, she is also known to be highly intelligent, as many fans can tell when she needs to solve problems and figure out what to do next within a tight time frame. Instead of breaking under pressure, like Okarun, she can stay calm and work through solutions.

What really stands out among her powers is psychokinesis, which allows her to pick up almost any object, despite its size and weight. With this, she can easily protect herself in a difficult situation. Just like when she grabbed Turbo Granny after she had a maneki-neko doll, she is able to stop any danger in its tracks, giving her enough time to think about what to do next. Besides just grabbing the item with her psychokinesis, she can also catapult it to deal serious damage and knock out an enemy. This gives her a slight edge against spirits and aliens.

Detecting auras is another aspect of Momo's powers that really sets her apart. With this ability, she can locate almost any spirit nearby, which can be especially useful for finding spirits that are hiding. She could easily look into Okarun and find that Turbo Granny had cursed him, even after the great battle that had supposedly defeated her. Along with detecting hidden spirits, she can use this ability to help those around her as well, especially in the case of Okarun, who often gets cursed.

Looking at Okarun's powers

Evaluate Okarun's Cursed Abilities

When it comes to Okarun's abilities, he doesn't get them at first, just like with Momo. Instead, it takes some time for his powers to unlock, and they only really come to him after he's cursed by Turbo Granny. Eventually, Turbo Granny is banished from Okarun, meaning he can no longer retain the abilities he received from her. However, he soon regains some of these powers, as he is constantly exposed to the supernatural and eventually restores his powers to their original capacity.

With the Turbo Granny powers at his side, Okarun has quite a few abilities at his disposal. This includes incredibly fast speed and reflexes, impressive durability, a strong bite from his mask, teleportation between telephone lines, and even astral projection. For the most part, his abilities are heavily focused on his speed and strength, and his ability to survive intense attacks or throws. With this fast speed, he can easily attack an enemy without them even being able to land a hit on him. This super speed would also allow him to escape at the last moment if needed, should he find himself in a difficult situation.

Okarun's additional supernatural powers from the Turbo Granny yokai can also be useful when he's on his own. Since he can travel through telephone wires, this can be used to escape when needed, or to quickly get to another location. While he doesn't use this ability often, it's certainly something he can keep in his back pocket if needed. His astral projection ability is not fully understood yet, as it is an ability he performed by accident. However, this is an easy way to separate from one's body and spy on others to learn about hidden plans, or to find a solution without being in direct danger.

Who is more powerful?

Only one can take the crown

Although Okarun and Momo both have abilities that are useful when dealing with spirits and aliens, one of them has abilities that will be more useful in the long run. Okarun and Momo work together as a team to enhance their individual powers, but Momo has impressive abilities that also shine on her own. Okarun has unmatched speed and strength, but Momo is no slouch in the strength department either. She has impressive durability and can survive intense attacks just like Okarun, but with additional supernatural powers by her side. The biggest thing Okarun has going for him is his speed.

Momo also possesses these powers naturally after unlocking them, while Okarun was only able to get hers after being cursed repeatedly by Turbo Granny. In almost any battle, Momo would be able to protect herself on her own, as she could use her ability to detect auras to find any hidden creatures, and her psychokinesis to either catapult objects at an enemy or grab them directly and throw them . Despite Okarun being physically stronger, it seems that Momo would have a better chance of completely defeating an enemy rather than just temporarily neutralizing the threat.

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