She's not the most powerful, but considering she's just a cripple who wrapped herself in circuitry, and ends up not only frying a Superion and Shockwave, plus creats her own gestalt with Autobot bodies, and actually manages to hurt Unicron, I'd say she's pretty strong on a pound for pound basis..
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What if they weighed as much as a universe but were only slightly better than the second best energy manipulator in comics who weighed .94 metric Carvers?
Here is Winter absorbing energy, without consciously knowing it:
[img=http://s5.postimg.org/a2pnpckib/Authority_Prime_03_Page_08.jpg]
[img=http://s5.postimg.org/9si5605w3/Authority_Prime_03_Page_09.jpg]
As you can see, it rejuvenated and healed him. Here is another, showing how even when snuck attacked, his powers kick in automatically:
[img=http://s5.postimg.org/6846mddxv/sword_of_damocles_01_pg_17_shinter.jpg]
[img=http://s5.postimg.org/nmoeunb2r/sword_of_damocles_01_pg_18_shinter.jpg]
As for being stabbed? Ain’t nothing but a thang:
[img=http://s5.postimg.org/4drc4mqxf/sword_of_damocles_02_pg_16_shinter.jpg]
Here is Winter absorbing…three? nukes. Overloading is not an issue (and this isn’t even his best absorption feat. Note too, his energy sensing abilities in the first scan. Like following a sidewalk):
[img=http://s5.postimg.org/nredz3e8j/Absorbs_Nukes1.jpg]
[img=http://s5.postimg.org/v9xj7q5lf/Absorbs_Nukes2.jpg]
[img=http://s5.postimg.org/cmpfdtgib/Absorbs_Nukes3.jpg]
Here is Winter absorbing the ambient energy around him:
[img=http://s5.postimg.org/8eun52f2r/Absorbs_Rads2.jpg]
He can heal himself:
[img=http://s5.postimg.org/3u4bvrmxf/Stormwatch_v1_33_15bs1.jpg]
[img=http://s5.postimg.org/5kncx94gj/Stormwatch_v1_33_18bs4.jpg]
And can channel the Sun:
[img=http://s5.postimg.org/kalinltxv/Channels_Sun1.jpg]
[img=http://s5.postimg.org/5fsbvouz7/Channels_Sun2.jpg]