Talk:Absorption/@comment-138.94.54.140-20160120191331/@comment-4784862-20160120235947

Yes, there are some abilities he ALWAYS has activated (though he can turn almost all of them on and off).

The ones I can think of are his sensory abilities that allow him to detect others, like Sense Presence, and the abilities it's synthesized with later on.

He uses the bare minimum normally, but for things like that that boost his detection abilities, it seems he always has them active. He may use some defensive/offensive boosting abilities all the time as well, but I don't think that's really the case.