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Hey OP, have you read the Animorphs book series? They're a YA series, but it actually gets into some heavier shit surprisingly (child soldiers, PTSD, etc) and are not half bad. I bring this up because the premise is some teens are given powers to morph into any animal they "acquire" DNA from by touching. Really gets into the mindset of each animal, what it feels like, how awesome (or terrifying) it is being each animal, etc. Give them a read if you haven't already.
I loved that series as a kid. IIRC, one of the most useful morphs they had was a house fly because of flight, hard to catch, and most people ignore you as long as you stay out of their way. This allowed them to be a literal fly on the wall in some private meetings with the bad guys.
Yeah, but how gruesome were the fly morphs. Even Cassie couldn't make that look good lol.
Most useless power is being able to perfectly know the time 🕰️
Eh, it was kinda necessary with the 2-hour time limit. You can imagine how many Andalite scientists were trapped in random morphs before they added that.
no although the belgariad gets into that a bit although its magic. a wizard does not like the instincts he gets from flying forms so prefers to run as a wolf.