Editing Leviathan (section)

===Macro-Hydrokinesis===
Leviathan's main power is the manipulation of water on a massive scale.<ref>“I spoke of Leviathan as a hydrokinetic.  I can’t state this enough – Leviathan is primarily a hydrokinetic on a ''macro'' scale.  There is no better illustration than the days where Leviathan ''won''. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/03/06/extermination-8-2/ Excerpt] from [[Extermination 8.2]]</ref> He often preludes his arrival to his target with a torrential downpour and a tsunami-like wave, which he continuously calls down throughout the battle. 

Leviathan lacks planetary range: a non-sandbagging Leviathan at least needs to remain in/near the general periphery of a city to call tsunami-like waves on it.<ref name="redditWWW e2">The post that follows will assume that Leviathan and Behemoth are going full-strength and Simurgh is using her powers as detailed in the story (where she's jobbing, in large part).<br>[...]<br>The Simurgh sees how long she can scan/sing, Leviathan and Behemoth just stay where they are, in Gotham bay or beneath the city.<br>[...]<br>Behemoth is the best counter to the Manhunter, and would be paired up with Simurgh, producing ridiculous amounts of fire, while Leviathan remains in the bay/periphery of the city, hitting it with subsequent waves (and pulling away a contingent of the JL). - Comment by Wildbow on [https://www.reddit.com/r/whowouldwin/comments/2sju2u/the_endbringers_worm_vs_the_justice_league/ Reddit]</ref> That said, he can still pull in water from presumably hundreds or even thousands of miles as demonstrated by his attacks on [[Canada|Newfoundland]] and [[Kyushu]].

====Tidal Waves====
Leviathan's ability to call tidal waves presents an offensive time-intensive ability<ref name="8.2 e10">“These were errors, grave mistakes from defending heroes.  We had but one strategy at the time – to hem him in, minimizing the effects of growing waves and casualties until Leviathan was beaten into a retreat or Scion arrived.  These areas, however, were too vulnerable.  Waiting let Leviathan build up the strength of his attacks, and we lost.”<br><br>He paused.  “We have since classified the locations the Endbringers target as either hard targets or soft targets.  The hard battlefields are where we stand our ground, buy time, wear him down.  The soft ones are locations where we cannot afford to do this.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/03/06/extermination-8-2/ Excerpt] from [[Extermination 8.2]]</ref><ref name="8.2 eStrongerThanLast" /><ref name="8.4 eMomentum" /><ref>“She’s scary,” Ballistic said.  “Let’s settle for that.  You don’t get within Behemoth’s range, you don’t aim for the long fight against Leviathan, and you don’t send everyone against the Simurgh at once, or you’re screwing yourself over.  Trust me when I say this is better all around if I skip this fight.  She knows me, and she’ll use me against you.” - [[Queen 18.2]]</ref><ref name="SB sink" /> that enables him to threaten and exert pressure against his opponents over a broad area.<ref>She wasn’t an Endbringer, in the end. It would be impossible to trap any of them like this, to get an advantage. They had other tools, ways to exert pressure that were entirely independent of their own abilities. Behemoth generated storms and background radiation, Leviathan had the waves, the Simurgh had her scream. - [[Scourge 19.7]]</ref><ref>My growing sense of dread was confirmed as the image on the monitors changed.<br><br>''Even with those circles being as devastating as they are, it wasn’t enough.  There wasn’t the same broad scale, the promise of lingering devastation.''<br><br>No.  There was something more to Khonsu.<br><br>The monitors showed him in a different city.  A caption on the bottom of the screen showed the words ‘Cape Verde’.<br><br>He’d teleported halfway around the planet.<br><br>All of the problems with getting to Endbringer fights on time, with mobilizing and dealing with the fact that half of our best teleporters and movers had been slain in past battles… he was capitalizing on that weakness. - [[Scarab 25.4]]</ref> They can also help him regain the initiative when put on the backfoot<ref name="8.5 eRetaliate">Leviathan slapped the teenage hero down, swiped at one of my swarm-people, then was forced down onto all fours as Purity struck him square between the shoulderblades with a column of light.  A metal shelving unit shot from the interior of a store, Ballistic’s power, I was almost positive, and made Leviathan stumble back.<br><br>We had the upper hand, but that wasn’t necessarily a good thing.  More than once, in the past hour alone, the Endbringer had demonstrated that any time the fight was going against him, he’d pull out all the stops and do something large scale.  A tidal wave or tearing up the streets.<br><br>We did ''not'' have what it took to withstand another wave.  No forcefields, no barriers. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/03/17/extermination-8-5/ Excerpt] from [[Extermination 8.5]]</ref><ref name="8.3 eSecondWave" /> or relocate.<ref name="22.y eRelocate" /> Each tsunami-like wave that he calls over to crush a target location (e.g., city, landmass) is stronger and reaches further inland than the last.<ref name="redditWWW e1" /><ref name="8.2 eStrongerThanLast">He paused, “We have to end this ''fast''.  Each wave he brings on top of us is stronger than the last.  This means we have two priorities.  First, we cannot let him out of our sight.  From the moment the battle is initiated, we hem him in, sustain an offensive onslaught.  If we let him slip past our defensive lines, precious time will be wasted chasing him, getting him in another situation where we can contain his movements.<br><br>“Our second priority is that we need to find ways to ''hurt'' him.  If you cannot, if your attacks are deflected or prove otherwise useless, work to support those who ''can''.  It is vain to hope to kill him, but he can be whittled down enough that he will flee back to the ocean, and if we hurt him enough, it may delay the time before he is capable of making another attack elsewhere.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/03/06/extermination-8-2/ Excerpt] from [[Extermination 8.2]]</ref><ref name="22.y eWaves" /> For example, Leviathan's initial wave on [[Brockton Bay]] left the ferry, south-end harbor, and [[the Boardwalk]] in ruins.<ref name="8.2 eInitialWave">One of the television screens toppled in the onrushing flood.  The other two showed a flickering series of images, a half second of each.  The coast of Brockton Bay being struck with a wave.  The ferry, the harbor down at the south end of town, the boardwalk, all smashed by the initial wave.  I saw a glimpse of a tall figure in the middle of one shot, little more than a blur behind the spray of water and the rain.<br>[...]<br>At the end of the road, downhill, was the Boardwalk, or what was left of it.  From what I could see through the downpour, the wooden pathways and docks had been shattered by the initial wave, to the point that many were standing nearly straight up, or were buckled into fractured arches.  Water frothed and sprayed as it rushed back against the ragged barrier that had been Brockton Bay’s high end shopping district. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/03/06/extermination-8-2/ Excerpt] from [[Extermination 8.2]]</ref> However, his second summoned tidal wave was several stories high<ref>“Wave!” someone screamed.<br><br>Forcefields went up, and being as high as they were, they were out of reach of the worst of it.  She could see it, a tide of water several stories high.  The impact was reduced to a manageable level  only by the shattered Boardwalk and fallen buildings at the end of the road, the uphill slope.<br><br>The crash when when the wave rolled against the side of the building was enough to knock over nearly everyone on the roof.
:''Structure, building age, strength of wave; building will hold.''
''Hope the people on the ground are as fortunate.'' - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/03/08/interlude-7%C2%BD-bonus/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 8.y]]</ref> and strong enough to tear the [[PHQ]] off its fixtures.<ref>Leviathan had more than halved our ranks with the wave.  I could see people face down in the water.  Others were crumped up, their bodies contorted, broken, still.<br><br>And the damage to the city was just as bad, in a different way.  I stared at the wreckage, the block and a half of shattered buildings, and saw a looming mess of arches and massive iron beams and girders, unable to comprehend what it was.<br><br>It dawned on me.  The PHQ.  The headquarters of our local superteam, tourist attraction, torn from whatever fixtures had rooted it in place, smashed to ruins against our coastline. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/03/10/extermination-8-3/ Excerpt] from [[Extermination 8.3]]</ref> Despite being dampened by existing wreckage and [[Eidolon]]'s barrier of ice, his fourth wave reached half a mile into the city, uprooted trees, and flattened entire neighborhoods.<ref>“BZ-4,” I reported.  Then I saw movement from the coast, called out through the armband’s channels, “Wave!”<br><br>I was glad to be in the air as the tidal wave struck.  The barrier of ice and the wreckage at the beaches did a lot to dampen the wave’s effect, but I watched as the water streamed a good half-mile into the city.  Buildings collapsed, cars were pushed, and even trees came free of the earth.<br>[...]<br>The area we were entering had been further from the heroes with the forcefields, where waves hadn’t had their impact softened or diverted by the the PHQ’s forcefield or the larger, heavier, blockier structures of the Docks.  Entire neighborhoods had been flattened, reduced to detritus that floated in muddy, murky waters.  Larger buildings, what I suspected might have been part of the local college, were standing but badly damaged. Countless cars sat in the roads and parking lots with water pouring in through shattered windows. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/03/17/extermination-8-5/ Excerpt] from [[Extermination 8.5]]</ref> After some hours at [[Kyushu]],<ref name="22.y eHours">He could feel his power rippling under his skin.  Against Leviathan, he’d waited hours before engaging the beast, had fought longer than he ever had. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/05/21/interlude-22-donation-bonus-1/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 22.y]]</ref> Leviathan's tidal waves are powerful enough to eventually topple even tsunami-proof buildings.<ref name="22.y eWaves">A tidal wave rocked the area, and Lung had to hold on to a nearby building to keep from falling.  Heroes were swept up in the wash of water, and buildings were leveled.<br>[...]<br>The waves were more frequent now.  Buildings here had been built to tight specifications, to remain standing in the face of earthquakes and tsunamis, but it wasn’t enough.  Barely a minute passed between the strikes, with each wave reaching further inland than the last, and only a handful of buildings stood at their full height, where there had been a city here only an hour ago.<br><br>It was in one of those brief moments of respite that the ground shuddered.  Lung nearly lost his footing.  When he looked up at the night sky, he could see that the tallest standing buildings were swaying, like fronds bending in the wind.<br><br>Somewhere he couldn’t see in the gloom, a building swayed too far and crashed to the ground. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/05/21/interlude-22-donation-bonus-1/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 22.y]]</ref>
<!-- The frequency of these waves is dependent on whether he is able to focus his ability on them, meaning a sustained attack can delay them. He often uses these to cripple strategic areas like evacuation centers or and smaller ones to change the balance of the battlefield if he begins to lose the advantage. -->

Leviathan's tsunami-like waves are periodic and take time to arrive;<ref>I think core identities to keep in mind are that Behemoth is the herokiller, Leviathan levels cities, and Simurgh creates long-term problems that last beyond the fight.<br>For Leviathan, I honestly wouldn't make it a chart, but like, various effects that could come in at different stages.  So you could have one fight defined by the heavy rain followed by the periodic waves smacking buildings by the coast, and another where he opens with ripping up the streets and geysers everywhere. - Comment by Wildbow on Parahumans Discord</ref> he explicitly needs time to build up the strength of his waves in order to pull in his most devastating macro-scale attacks.<ref name="redditWWW e1" /><ref name="8.2 e10" /> Indeed, a non-sandbagging<ref name="tarot e1" /> Leviathan could not fully stop the immediate tidal waves produced as collateral damage by [[Scion]]'s blasts.<ref>One was in the thick of things, creating different types of forcefield to try to mitigate the damage Scion was doing to our side.  Capes had baited Scion out over the water, but the fact that there were less targets in range was counterbalanced by the fact that Scion was more focused on those who were there, and he was hitting harder.  When he hit the water, waves crashed against the shore, doing nearly as much damage as any of his attacks might.  A Leviathan with one arm, one leg, and most of its head missing was perched on the shoreline, apparently mitigating the damage. - [[Speck 30.4]]</ref> That said, the longer he continuously pulls in tidal waves on a target location, the more momentum he builds up with these waves.<ref name="8.4 eMomentum">Either way, it was a delaying tactic.  Holding off the damage, in the hopes that we could end this or get reinforcements before Brockton Bay became another Newfoundland.<br><br>We were hoping for Scion.  The first cape, the golden skinned man.  The guy that could go toe to toe with an Endbringer and win, if things hadn’t already gone too far south.  If Behemoth hadn’t already turned the area into a radioactive, magma-ridden wasteland.  If Leviathan hadn’t built up enough momentum with his waves.  If the Simurgh… Ok, the Simurgh was different, I had to admit.  The issue with her wasn’t so much winning the battle.  It was what came after.  Win every battle against her, lose the war, more or less. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/extermination-8-4/ Excerpt] from [[Extermination 8.4]]</ref> Thus, their frequency will generally increase over time. For example, in the [[Battle against Leviathan]], he only summoned three tidal waves<ref name="8.2 eInitialWave" /><ref name="8.3 eSecondWave">There was the girl with the crossbow, who had been with Shadow Stalker.  She had a teammate next to her, handing her the needle-like bolts from a quiver, was loading them into the large crossbow and firing them as fast as she was able.  More than any other attack, the bolts were stabbing deep into Leviathan.<br><br>The attacks were actually having an effect.  He was on the defensive, now, and he was hurting.<br><br>''We’re winning'', I thought.<br><br>A flash to my left caught my eye.<br><br>It was my armband.  The screen was ringed by a square of yellow, a yellow triangle with a black exclamation mark pointing in Leviathan’s general direction.<br><br>People were shouting.  Screaming, Narwhal was moving forcefields up in between us and Leviathan, other forcefields were going up.<br><br>“To me!” someone near me shouted.  I turned to look, saw Shielder from New Wave.<br><br>''Tidal Wave''. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/03/10/extermination-8-3/ Excerpt] from [[Extermination 8.3]]</ref><ref>And then Leviathan was in view, entering the same street I was on.  As if to herald his coming, a massive wave crashed hard against the barrier of ice Eidolon had erected around the wrecked Boardwalk, the spray seemingly reaching nearly to the stormclouds above. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/extermination-8-4/ Excerpt] from [[Extermination 8.4]]</ref> in the first hour, though [[Clockblocker]]'s power did give the city a short reprieve,<ref>The time freezing effect of Clockblocker’s power lasted anywhere from thirty seconds to ten minutes.  How long had we spent, here, since Clockblocker had given us this momentary reprieve?  It was hard to judge the passage of time with the adrenaline, the frenetic pace of the ongoing battle. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/03/10/extermination-8-3/ Excerpt] from [[Extermination 8.3]]</ref> and Leviathan did spend some time targeting the city's [[Leviathan#Underground Water Manipulation|underground water infrastructure]] after his third wave. The time between his third and fourth wave was at least 3.4 minutes.<ref name="8.4 eDelay">For several long seconds, Leviathan didn’t move.<br><br>“Delaying, buying time for a tsunami?” Armsmaster laughed, and Leviathan cocked his head at the display of emotion.  “No.  Three point four minutes before the next big wave breaks through the ice.  Dragon’s probes are giving me the data on that.  This will be over before then.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/extermination-8-4/ Excerpt] from [[Extermination 8.4]]</ref> In contrast, after some hours<ref name="22.y eHours" /> in [[Kyushu]], he could summon tsunami-like waves every minute to hit the target location.<ref name="22.y eWaves" />

====Underground Water Manipulation====
If the target location has intact underground water infrastructure (e.g., sewers, water supply network), instead of calling a tidal wave,<ref name="8.5 eRetaliate" /> he can use this time to manipulate the water in pressurized pipes with the goal of destroying this infrastructure. After bringing these pipes to the surface and cracking open the ground,<ref>The roads beneath us were damaged, shattered.  When Leviathan had shifted the position of the storm sewers, he’d gone all out, and he’d gone a step further than just the storm sewer – he’d also torn up the water supply network for the city.  The occasional pipe speared up between the slats in the sidewalk, fire hydrants were dislodged, and the water that poured from these was barely a trickle now.  That might have meant too much was leaking from the damaged pipes to give the water any pressure. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/03/17/extermination-8-5/ Excerpt] from [[Extermination 8.5]]</ref><ref>Water sprayed in the truck’s wake as we cut a path through the flooded streets.<br><br>It was a military vehicle.  I wasn’t one to know much about cars, and I knew even less about stuff like military vehicles, so I couldn’t put a name to the truck that was carting me and eight of Coil’s workers through the Docks.  It was like a sturdy pickup truck, but the rear section was wider and it was hidden beneath a green tarp that had been stretched over a framework of metal bars.  The tires were massive, with deep treads allowing the truck to navigate all but the most cracked sections of road where Leviathan had brought the underground pipes and drains through the surface. - [[Infestation 11.2]]</ref> Leviathan can then leverage these damaged pipes to temporarily shoot geysers of water at his targets.<ref>Leviathan hopped backwards to create some distance, staggered a little as the more injured of his two legs failed to take his weight, used his smaller hand to stop from falling a second time, poising himself on three limbs.<br><br>Armsmaster used his grappling hook to haul himself close, readying to make another slash for the neck.  He changed his mind as the ground rumbled, pulled the hook free to latch it on a garage door.  Countering his forward momentum, he swung himself to one side of the road, staying out of Leviathan’s reach.<br><br>The ground rumbled again, brief, intense, stopped.<br><br>Armsmaster touched a hand to the side of his visor, and I thought I saw his lips crease in a frown before he turned his head away from me.<br><br>Another fierce rumble, and a crack appeared like a seam down the center of the street, a straight line as far as I could see in either direction.<br><br>Leviathan raised his claw, and the road suddenly split, heaving upward as a concrete pipe wide enough to fit a man crested from the pavement like a whale rising from the waves.  A second later, water gushed forth, veering toward Armsmaster.<br><br>''The storm sewers''. - [[Extermination 8.4]]</ref><ref>*  Geyser - The water running underground is manipulated.  The ground cracks, the water level temporarily drops one step if necessary.  Ground becomes difficult and anyone pushed or pulled at ground level has a chance to be dragged or thrown into hazardous terrain.  Geysers shoot temporarily into the air, which may catch fliers or target defensive fortifications.  Further 'Ground' effects may, for the duration, affect 1-3 individuals in the air, as well.  Water level regenerates to where it was prior to the ground cracking after ~3 rounds. - Comment by Wildbow on Parahumans Discord</ref>
<!-- The true strength of this ability is to create extreme amounts of water pressure and movement in unseen places such as underground aquifers or coastlines. -->

He can demonstrate the true strength of underground water manipulation when the target location has a large aquifer and/or coastal erosion vulnerability. When Leviathan approached [[Brockton Bay]], [[Legend]] informed capes that Brockton Bay was a vulnerable soft target where they could not afford to buy time and let Leviathan build up the strength of his attacks<ref name="8.2 e10" /> because the city was above an aquifer.<ref name="8.2 e11">The television screen showed a cross section of Brockton Bay as seen from ground level.  The West end of the city was bordered by hills, and the terrain sloped gradually from the base of the mountain down to the water.  Directly below the image of the buildings that marked the city’s location, there was a large cavern, bordered by rock on all sides except the part nearest the beach, which was sand.  It was marked blue – filled with water.<br><br>“Brockton Bay, ''this location'', is a soft target.  The city was originally founded at this location because of the proximity to the coastline for trade routes and an aquifier that provided the first settlers with access to fresh water.  This aquifier, essentially an underground lake beneath the city, is our weak point. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/03/06/extermination-8-2/ Excerpt] from [[Extermination 8.2]]</ref> He could manipulate this aquifer in an attempt to erode the surrounding sand, silt, and rock, having the end goal of collapsing a section or perhaps most of the city.<ref name="8.2 e12">From the moment Leviathan shows himself, we expect Leviathan will stir and manipulate this underground reservoir to erode the surrounding sand, silt and rock.  Add the tidal waves from above, with the resulting tremors and impacts…”<br><br>I doubted anyone failed to understand what would follow.  A section of the city, perhaps most of the city, could collapse into the aquifier. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/03/06/extermination-8-2/ Excerpt] from [[Extermination 8.2]]</ref> After an hour,<ref name="8.5 eHour">More than anything else, though, the two of them had the look of people who had seen half their immediate family brutally and senselessly torn apart over the course of one terrible hour.  As though they’d had their hearts torn out of their chests and were somehow still standing.  It wasn’t that I had seen anyone in those circumstances before, but that look existed, and they had it. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/03/17/extermination-8-5/ Excerpt] from [[Extermination 8.5]]</ref> a heavy slam from Leviathan could now collapse a section of [[Downtown]] to form a massive sinkhole<ref>That top-heavy body of his toppled forward, and it was only his right claw, slamming down to the pavement, that stopped his face from being driven into the ground.  The impact of his claw striking the ground rumbled past us.<br><br>The rumble didn’t stop.<br><br>“Run!” I shouted, my cry joining the shouts of others.  I turned, sloshed through the water to get away, not sure where to get away ''from'', or ''to''.<br><br>Leviathan and the ground beneath him sank a good ten feet, and water swirled and frothed as it began pouring to fill the depression.  He used his arm to shield himself as Purity fired another blast from above.  As the ground beneath him continued to sink, the water lapped higher and higher around him.<br><br>The Endbringer descended, and the area around him quickly became a massive indent, ten, fifteen, thirty, then sixty feet across, ever growing.  The force of the water pouring into the crater began to increase, and the ground underfoot grew increasingly unsteady as cracks spread across it.<br><br>I realized with a sudden panic, that I wasn’t making headway against the waves and the ground that was giving way underfoot.  The growing crater was continuing to spread well past me, rising above me as the ground I stood on descended.<br><br>“Need help!” I screamed, as water began falling atop me from a higher point, spraying into me with enough force that I began to stumble back, fall.<br><br>The ground in front of and above me folded into a massive fissure.  The movement of the cracked sections of road created a torrent of water that washed over me, engulfed me and forced me under. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/03/17/extermination-8-5/ Excerpt] from [[Extermination 8.5]]</ref> that would later be called a [[Crater Lake|'lake']].<ref name="8.5 e1" /><ref>Our boats weren’t out on the ocean.  We traveled through the area downtown where Leviathan had collapsed a section of the city.  It was now more or less an artificial lake.  The water was fairly still, lapping gently against the ruined roads and collapsed buildings that surrounded the crater, but with the speed these boats were capable of going, even waves a half-foot high made us ramp slightly off one and then crash down onto the next with a sudden spray. - [[Plague 12.2]]</ref> If not stopped over the course of many hours,<ref name="SB sink">'''moridinamael:''' If he just sucked all the water out of rock in the subsurface below Newfoundland, the island would sink. The briney water that permeates all earthly rocks below sea level always helps support some of the overburden pressure of the rock above it. If you suck some of the water out of an aquifer or an oil field, the ground above it will sink. Only a few meters at most, in the worst known scenarios, but Leviathan can move a lot more water than humans with a few wells with limited operating conditions.<br><br>'''Wildbow:''' Yeah. My mental picture of the scene & understanding of how things could theoretically work was that Newfoundland has historically been prone to erosion, and there's a lot of stuff going on with plates and separation from the crust/mantle. Water within the rocks creates a kind of erosion from within, concentrated, high-pressure movement of water erodes the layers most prone to damage while scooping out water while creating a kind of power-augmented hydroplane/sediment layer, and... over the course of hours, it slides beneath.<br><br>Of course, the entire thing goes hand in hand with calamity, waves taller than many boats, people trying to use powers to mitigate the damage and give people a better chance to evacuate, yadda yadda. - Conversation with Wildbow on Reddit, archived on Spacebattles</ref><!-- https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/39590539 --> Leviathan can eventually even sink or level entire islands as he demonstrated with the complete disappearance of [[Canada|Newfoundland]]<ref name="8.2 e8" /> and the shattered, half-sunken [[Kyushu]].<ref name="26.x e1">There was no guarantee they wouldn’t use Dodge’s technology to visit the United Kingdom or Africa or even shattered, half-sunken Kyushu. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/25/interlude-26-bonus-1/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 26.x]]</ref>

====Rainstorms====
Leviathan can leverage his macro-hydrokinesis to move clouds and fog within range<ref name="28.x e1" /> and gather them into heavy storm clouds<ref>It was in that same moment that the Simurgh descended.<br><br>Descended was the wrong word.  She ''fell''.  It was as though she’d stopped lifting herself into the air, and let herself drop.  Her wings moved to control her descent, keep her facing towards the ground as she plummeted.  In the gloom of the rain and the heavy stormclouds above, her silver-white body was the easiest thing to make out.  If the assembled capes hadn’t already been keeping a wary eye on her, the movement would have turned heads anyways.<br><br>A white streak, plummeting from the sky, striking Leviathan. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/09/10/cockroaches-28-5/ Excerpt] from [[Cockroaches 28.5]]</ref> in order to call down<ref name="SB eSmartLeviathan">I think part of the reason Anzer'Ke isn't necessarily getting it is that he's imagining some scenario where Leviathan throws himself at the enemy.<br><br>Quite frankly, if Leviathan wants to win (and if he's not in Earth Bet and he's not dormant, he will) he's going to do it smart, which is something he is capable of (see his actions during the timeskip, hitting multiple cities). He's not going to surface, and he's just going to call tidal waves and rainstorms down on the enemy until they stop moving (see his literal first appearance in story - he interrupts the strategy meeting by hitting them with a wave before he shows himself. Now remove the 'show himself' element). If they're on boats (they're often on boats) he may well gut the boats from beneath. The only ones standing are going to be the ones who have special ships and/or powerful devil's fruit abilities.<br><br>What happens after that? Well, maybe they can block the waves or simply weather them, but can they resupply? Or does he simply occupy them and prolong the fight until the fruit users get tired or exhausted, make a mistake, or start to falter for lack of sleep and/or food? There are a lot of advantages to being nonhuman in nature.<br><br>I stopped watching shortly after Ace's execution arc, so I can't speak to the individuals who appear after (or the fishmen) but I suspect Anzer'Ke is simply making the classic mistake of underestimating Leviathan. - Wildbow on Spacebattles</ref><!-- https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/16048226 --> torrential downpours over an area.<ref name="8.2 e2">Legend paused, glanced out the window.  The storm clouds had reached the beach, and torrential rain stirred the water into a froth.  Not just rain, but ''buckets'' of water. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/03/06/extermination-8-2/ Excerpt] from [[Extermination 8.2]]</ref><ref>I saw what she was watching.  A stormcloud in the distance.  It hung over the water with an opaque curtain of rain descending down from it.  It was gradually getting closer.<br>[...]<br>As daunting as the approaching clouds were, what drew my attention was the crowd.  There were people filling the lobby.  Only a few were local. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/03/03/extermination-8-1/ Excerpt] from [[Extermination 8.1]]</ref> Besides adding more water to the battlefield, this rain cover can also make it harder for his opponents to see him from a distance.<ref name="17.3 c1">'''rmcd94:''' If I was organizing it (which it’s a shame I’m not I have to say) I would gather up invincible heroes of NATO and potentially other places like Russia and China if they’re up for cooperating, and then really long range heroes and that’d be it. The invincible heroes would harry and harass and generally just get in the way, while long range heroes do damage from helicopters or somewhere that’s invulnerable. Pretty easy to take out Leviathan with that strategy. Not sure how they’re going to defeat Simiruigh here or how they beat Behemoth.<br><br>'''Wildbow:''' Try to deal with Leviathan with a few brute strength heroes and some long ranged ones and he runs. He’s faster than most, and anyone fast enough to keep up with him is generally too weak to keep him in one place (and vice versa). It takes too long to whittle him down and the target gets smashed. Rain cover and storms make getting a bead on him difficult from a certain distance. - Conversation with Wildbow on [[Migration 17.3]]</ref><!-- https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/01/10/migration-17-3/#comment-42797 -->

====Smaller-Scale Hydrokinesis====
In the immediate area, Leviathan can gather water, including quantities produced by [[Leviathan#Water Echo|his echo]], to then send out as a small wave.<ref>Turning on the spot, Leviathan moved his claw, creating a wave with all of the water he’d generated since entering the alley, driving it into one of the two gathered groups. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/03/10/extermination-8-3/ Excerpt] from [[Extermination 8.3]]</ref> For example, he formed a wave five feet tall, fifteen feet wide on the same street as him for heaving a nearby van in his direction,<ref>And then Leviathan was in view, entering the same street I was on.<br>[...]<br>I didn’t have another second to worry – Leviathan was extending one claw in my general direction.<br><br>The water that had pooled shallowly beneath the carport trickled his way, as if it were moving downhill, gathered in a rising bulge of water on the street in front of the carport, swelling to five feet in height, fifteen feet across.<br><br>Unsure what to do, I remained absolutely still.<br><br>A movement of his claw, and the bulge broke, spilled to one side as an onrushing wave.  It swept beneath the rusted van, suddenly rose to heave the vehicle in Leviathan’s direction.  The van rolled once, skidding toward the Endbringer, threatening to strike one leg out from under him.  He stopped it by punching it through the roof, into the front end of the van.  He stabbed the other claw through at the same point, tore the van into two halves that he tossed to either side of him. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/extermination-8-4/ Excerpt] from [[Extermination 8.4]]</ref> a wave three times as tall as [[Bitch]] in his immediate vicinity for attacking a grounded [[Scion]],<ref>There was no impact as he landed, no great splash or rumble of the earth.  Leviathan didn’t even seem to notice the hero’s arrival.<br>[...]<br>Scion raised one hand, and a ball of yellow-gold light slammed into Leviathan from behind, sent the Endbringer skidding across the length of the street, past Bitch and I.<br><br>Leviathan leaped to his feet, reared around, swung his claws at the air ferociously.  Water around him rose, rushed towards Scion, a wave three times as high as Bitch was tall.  Three times as tall as I might be if I could stand.<br><br>Scion didn’t move or speak.  He walked forward, and ripples extended from his footsteps, soared past us with some strange motive force.  The ripple touched the wave, and the tower of water collapsed before it got halfway to us, dropping straight down.  Liquid as far as the eye could see was being flattened out into a disquieting stillness by the ripples of Scion’s footsteps, like a great pane of glass. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/03/17/extermination-8-5/ Excerpt] from [[Extermination 8.5]]</ref> and a wave behind [[Armsmaster]] in an attempt to hit him.<ref name="8.4 eBehindHit" /> These waves can move as fast as a speeding car.<ref>A flick of his tail, and he sent a blade of water slashing through the air at the rain barrel, slicing through the swarm and stilts.  The barrel crashed to the rooftop, and water cascaded out.  A twisting movement of his claw, and that cascade of water flowed off the roof in a small, controlled wave, moving like a speeding car, straight towards the carport on the other side of the street, toward ''me''.<br><br>I caught a glimpse of Leviathan rearing back in reaction to something as I legged it, left my swarm behind as I ran perpendicular to the wave’s direction, away from Leviathan.  I leaped as I felt it make contact with the swarm, felt it slam into my legs a fraction of a second after.<br><br>I’d cleared enough ground that the angle of the hit didn’t throw me straight into the side of the building.  I ''was'' thrown a distance, rolled on my side, on top of and over my probably-broken arm. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/extermination-8-4/ Excerpt] from [[Extermination 8.4]]</ref> However, it is possible for a sufficiently powerful hydrokinetic to deflect his smaller-scale ranged attacks.<ref name="22.y eEidolonDeflect">Eidolon was fighting now.  He hurled globes of energy the size of small houses at Leviathan, and each one was sufficient to knock the creature away, flaying away the thing’s skin and simultaneously slowing it.  The hero’s own hydrokinesis deflected the lizard’s ranged attacks, diverting them skyward or off to one side.  Leviathan couldn’t attack from range, and couldn’t get close without getting pummeled.  He attempted to run, only for Japan’s foremost team, the Sentai Elite, to step into his way, blocking his progress. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/05/21/interlude-22-donation-bonus-1/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 22.y]]</ref>

For defense, Leviathan formed a rising geyser of water to block some of [[Legend]]'s lasers.<ref>Legend fired a salvo of lasers at Leviathan, and the beams turned at right angles to strike Leviathan in precise areas, knocking his feet from under him, slamming him down into the road, catching him under the chin.  Leviathan raised a hand, and a geyser of water rose to block more incoming lasers.  Legend’s lasers simply turned at angles to circle around Leviathan, strike the Endbringer from behind.  They left Leviathan so hot that his flesh glowed a yellow-orange around the areas they struck him. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/03/10/extermination-8-3/ Excerpt] from [[Extermination 8.3]]</ref> He raised a spraying wall of water in an attempt to cover his retreat from [[Scion]].<ref>Eidolon froze the water around Leviathan’s four claws, giving Scion the opportunity to land another blast.  Leviathan turned, raised a spraying wall of water to cover his retreat.  Scion sent out one blast of his golden light to strike the wave, following up with a second blast before the first even made contact with the water. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/03/17/extermination-8-5/ Excerpt] from [[Extermination 8.5]]</ref>

He can use his power to stand on the water's surface.<ref>“One hundred and eighty ''integers of longitude to the west,''” Defiant said.  “''Leviathan just arrived.  That’s what got her attention.  We expected one to appear there, so Chevalier ordered us to put crews there with cameras for monitoring.  They’re there right now, reporting to me.''”<br><br>A monitor shifted, depicting Leviathan, standing on the water’s surface in the midst of a heavy rainstorm.  The water around him was rippling, though he was utterly still. - [[Cockroaches 28.4]]</ref>

====Limitations====
Leviathan is [[Manton Effect|Manton-limited]]: he is unable to manipulate the water within biological living entities.<ref>'''DeluxeTable:''' Is the whole 'making people explode' thing fanon or does he actually not have a Manton limiter?<br><br>'''Kyakan:''' it is fanon<br><br>[Wildbow reacted with :point_up_two:] - Reaction by Wildbow on Parahumans Discord</ref> His hydrokinesis is also crude and lacks fine control.<ref name="8.2 e6" /> For example, he cannot fly as a cape had to fling a non-sandbagging<ref name="tarot e1">They're children, they're unpredictable, and only at the end do they unleash their full potential. Their flaw is the fact that they're fundamentally hollow, naive, illusory. They're only really playing a game for reasons that don't matter at the heart of things. - Worm Tarot Deck</ref><!-- https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ntXwQcmkioq4NPPayBEIjA4dHPD-TXpjU1bnul3udWg --> Leviathan at a flying [[Scion]] during [[Gold Morning]].<ref name="29.9 e1">Khonsu and Leviathan, and capes I recognized as the ones Cauldron had taken.  A whole army.<br>[...]<br>A cape flung Leviathan.  Scion floated to one side to avoid the incoming Endbringer.  Leviathan, in response, extended the fins the Simurgh had given him, arresting his forward momentum, and then swam through his own afterimage as it crashed into him, changing direction in mid-air.<br><br>He crashed into Scion, his fins tearing through the golden man.  Golden mist billowed away as Leviathan found a grip on Scion and continued the assault.<br><br>Leviathan was blasted away, heaved into the ground with a force that made everyone present stumble.  Scion then retaliated, striking first the cape that had thrown Leviathan, then Leviathan himself. - [[Venom 29.9]]</ref>
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The only weakness to this ability is that it lacks fine control. When working with relatively small amounts of water the best he can do is create shield-like geysers or send smaller waves to throw off opponents. This means he can't do things like manipulating water within the body or pinpoint high pressure drilling.
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