Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-11371765-20130629002411/@comment-11371765-20130629053224

They are limited due to skill and power, not just power though. For example, Rachel is an omega level mutant (telepathy and telekinesis), but since she was not a master and not as skilled as Emma, Emma was able to defeat her. As far as raw power Emma is limited compared to Rachel by quite a bit. Same goes for Jean and Xavier, she was always more powerful than him, but he was more skilled at first. Xavier was able to hold his own against Nate Grey (far more powerful than Xavier, but far less skilled) because Xavier was skilled enough to trick Nate telepathically. We know that even in the power department there is a significant difference between Xavier and Emma, but when it comes to skill they are much closer, and yet they are both omega class, so that would suggest power only plays one part and mastery of the art the other. Gamemaster, is a powerful telepath, but he is not skilled enough to shut out thoughts, meaning there are things he could stand to learn, because when not tethered by his body Xavier too is an omnipath (as evidenced by him using Amelia to untether his mind/body connection via her power), yet he was able to handle it much more effectively than Gamemaster. There was a Morlock named Kevin I believe, he was a contact telepath that had contact with the other morlocks and caused them to all go wild and attack the city, Xavier proved that he could overcome the boys control over that many people. My point is this boy was low level due to having to make contact, and yet we was a threat to the entire city, so a low level telepath can become an "omega level threat" and still not be an omega class telepath.