Which Primarch is your favourite in terms of their special unique power?

Tyzuris

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Mine is Corvus Corax with his wraith slipping ability. It's just very cool that he can manipulate other peoples' senses to disappear from their sight and go stealth and attack enemies without them seeing him. And it's not too OP hax like Magnus' powers. For the same reason I like Sanguinius' flight powers and precognition which make him a beast in the battlefield but not too overpowered like Magnus who could telepathically take over half the opposing army and make it fight the other half and enjoy a box of popcorn and six-pack while watching the fight.

Honourable mentions as well:

Lion El Johnson: Cool very near-term precogis-style power that allows him to predict other people's moves in duels to a degree he can change his attacks while they're midway being performed. And also his ability to permakill Daemons is cool.

Perturabo: Ability to learn everything instantly, know how every piece of tech works and improve it instantly. Also his mathematical mind is a logistics boom. If it weren't for his attitude, he could easily surpass Guilliman. With Guilliman's personality, Perturabo would be in short order running his own mini imperium of a thousand worlds and have his own legion of half a million Astartes.

Mortarion: him being the toughest Primarch able to shrug off Baneblade fire to the face.

Horus Lupercal: His analytical mind that is able to identify weak points in enemy formations and deliver decapitation strikes like no other Primarch and Legion.
 

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I've actually found that the more "special" a primarch is the less interesting they are. Corvus as a daring rebel leader fighting against the ruling government out of a sense of justice and freedom is awesome, and it explains his favor for covert tactics. Corvus turning into some some sort of x-man wannabe because reasons and using covert tactics because he's the innately sneaky primarch....that's significantly less interesting, it makes him less of a person and more a set of abilities, and it feeds into the "all successors of a chapter must take after that chapter because it's baked into thier Geneseed to be like that" mindset that I also despise.

It's one of the reasons Dorn, Lion, and rowboat girlyman are my favorites, they don't have some in your face superpower that warps the rest of thier character around that power.
 

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I live in sweet ignorance of their superpowers as these came to be after I drifted out of the fandom :)
If anything I'd go with Roboute Guilliman as he had a harem (very, very old lore, where the Ultramarine's Head Librarian was a half-Elf ...) of Sexy Hotties of Macragge (exercise: spot user with middle age crisis/andropause).
 
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If anything I'd go with Roboute Guilliman as he had a harem (very, very old lore, where the Head Librarian was a half-Elf ...) of Sexy Hotties of Macragge

So, Hugh Hefner had superpowers......hm, that's actually somewhat plausible.
 

The Whispering Monk

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I've always like Russ b/c he really didn't seem to have Super Powers either.

And it's been fairly obvious that he isn't all 'viking', but uses that as a cover to help people underestimate him.
 

Tyzuris

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I've actually found that the more "special" a primarch is the less interesting they are. Corvus as a daring rebel leader fighting against the ruling government out of a sense of justice and freedom is awesome, and it explains his favor for covert tactics. Corvus turning into some some sort of x-man wannabe because reasons and using covert tactics because he's the innately sneaky primarch....that's significantly less interesting, it makes him less of a person and more a set of abilities, and it feeds into the "all successors of a chapter must take after that chapter because it's baked into thier Geneseed to be like that" mindset that I also despise.
Would also based on this reasoning Magnus be low on your list?
 

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Would also based on this reasoning Magnus be low on your list?

I would not describe Magnus as having a special power like the other primarchs do.

Magnus has always been a pskyer. My issue is more with stuff like Corvus (not to pick on your favorite, he's just a standout example) who has always been sneaky and later had sneakiness be crowbarred into being such an innate part of his character by giving him Jones Cena powers.
 

Tyzuris

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I would not describe Magnus as having a special power like the other primarchs do.

Magnus has always been a pskyer. My issue is more with stuff like Corvus (not to pick on your favorite, he's just a standout example) who has always been sneaky and later had sneakiness be crowbarred into being such an innate part of his character by giving him Jones Cena powers.
Asides from Corvus which Primarchs also revolve their personality and essence around their special power?
 

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Corvus and the Lion, because they are the two sanest Primarchs.

Dorn? His special power is to have a stick shoved so far up his ass that when he clenched it turned to diamond.

Rowboat? His special power is that GW loves him and can't stop trying to make him the specialist special snowflake.

Vulcan? He's cool but his special power is being black; well at least until that became less than PC and so he became an Immortal Perpetual that thought it a grand idea to run away and hide for the past several thousand years of the Imperium going to shit.

Wolf Wolf? Wolves Wolves Wolves WOLVES!! BEER!! WOLVES!!! Honestly, I kinda like Russ actually but I despise the Space Wolves thanks to how GW writes them.

Corvus? Well he decided to be an emo pansy in the end but until then he was cool and his unique ability was decent.

Lion? His power is basically to win as efficiently and completely as possible, which is always cool.

Khan? I'm still pretty sure that his power is basically just sanity, but it might be "doesn't act like a whiny child" unlike all too many of the other Primarchs.
 

The Whispering Monk

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Khan? I'm still pretty sure that his power is basically just sanity, but it might be "doesn't act like a whiny child" unlike all too many of the other Primarchs.
The whiny child bit does seem to be prevalent in many of the Primarchs.
Wolf Wolf? Wolves Wolves Wolves WOLVES!! BEER!! WOLVES!!! Honestly, I kinda like Russ actually but I despise the Space Wolves thanks to how GW writes them.
Hah!
Loved the Wolves ever since. They have loads of character, and I love that they're always willing to hike a leg up and whiz on the Codex.
 

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