@andrew42 Well yeah, it's best to have every alien to be as well balanced as possible. That's not to say that Ben's aliens shouldn't be powerful. They should definitely be powerful and capable in combat. The issue is if they get too powerful and yes, that is something that would definitely be a significant issue if that were to happen. Ben's enemies need to be able to provide a proper challenge to Ben. Even when Ben has powerful aliens, he should still have some difficulty defeating his enemies. It brings tension and struggle to the action scenes as well as a sense of satisfaction to the viewers when we see Ben struggle and face difficulties only to eventually end up overcoming his opponents and win.
This is standard when it comes to having a good action scene. There has to be tension. There has to be struggle. There has to be challenge and difficulty. The hero must go through all of that. Otherwise, the action scenes aren't really riveting. There's no satisfaction that the viewers experience. The challenge doesn't seem rewarding enough to the viewers. The action scenes don't seem so memorable and engaging. If you don't have proper tension, struggle, and difficulty that the hero goes through in an action scene, you pretty much don't have a good action scene.
This is why I don't like aliens such as Echo Echo, Clockwork, Alien X, etc. That's why I didn't include them in my list of ideal aliens in Ben's roster that I made on here a while back. The way in which they are designed and structured makes them too powerful and therefore can make Ben's battles feel too easy. Again, Ben can have powerful aliens but he shouldn't have aliens that are way too powerful and he should face villains that can properly challenge him. It's necessary. It's needed here.
If Ben really did receive an alien that can use all the classical natural elements (fire, water, earth, and air), then he received an alien that is indeed way too powerful for him to have and thus breaks the balance of the action scenes. Said alien would also make plenty of his other aliens (Heatblast, Overflow, etc) completely pointless to use because why decide on only one element when he could just go for the option of having all the elements just by the push of a button. Not like Shock Rock (or whatever his actual name is) is an alien with all the elements put into one. As I said to @Ebomnitrix, the transformation clip doesn't show Shock Rock having all the natural elements put into one. As far as I can tell, Shock Rock is just an electric-based alien. Not an alien that can control all the natural elements.
So no, I'm not looking at this wrong.
