Best Power Combinations

[Myself]

Time for some thread necromancy, I think.

Body Snatch* + Friendly Power Gifting*: Load up a future host with powers you need while you possess them, then take them back afterward.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

Or, what about this?

Jack + MythPower: Ctesios' Title= Jack other people's possessions (material and immaterial) for yourself, and then turn it against them, and if they ever get it back, it still counts as yours, so you can summon it back to your possession

[Smackgiver]

A few obvious combos (forgive me if they've been submitted before, but I tried to read all the submissions on this threat and HOLY SMOKE!!!   - there's been alotta chatter over the years).

Illusory Wishes + Illusion Creation - grant people's wishes with illusions, then make them real if you deem them worthy.  Also, grant your own wishes without limit.
Conditional Ability Bestowal + Ability Absorber - grant other people powers with them staying absolutely loyal to you, then absorb those powers for yourself
I.Q. + Enhancement: Self - be as smart or as dumb as you please.
Brainiac+Infinite Memory Palace+Mythpower: Thesis Theorem and Mnemosyne's Memory+10x Thinking Speed (in that order) - be the closest human approximate of a Uni-Mind, Uber-Noggin, Know-it-all

I'm also assuming that it would be rather pedestrian and unnecessary to include "Insert power here" and pair it with Con Negation, since that's kinda the whole point of Con Negation - working with another power for a more potent combo.  

[WonderDrow]

Smackgiver wrote

Illusory Wishes + Illusion Creation - grant people's wishes with illusions, then make them real if you deem them

Great find !  That gives one the power to create about anything.
Amazing that no one possesses Illusory Wishes at this moment.

[Smackgiver]

Yep.  It's on my gottagetit list.

[Smackgiver]

Another advantage to using the Illusory Wishes+Illusion Creation combo... unlike other reality bending powers, this combo lets you check out the effects of a wish before executing it so you can see the results harmlessly.  Sort of a "try before you buy" model, in case the wish is awkwardly/clumsily worded.

And now they're both mine.  

[Myself]

I may get those two as well.

[Smackgiver]

Here's a couple of powers that I came across recently - System Manipulation + Instant Learning.  System Manipulation states that you must have a basic understanding of the system you wish to alter, ergo, a quick use of Instant Learning and BAM!  The world's your oyster.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

 Indeed! I like that one!

Oh, and here's one.

Trojan Horse + Quantakinesis=

 Shrink the soldiers you have in your body, replicate the number you have, then when you let them out, grow them up to giant size.

Congrats, you have an army of portable giants at your disposal.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

Did you just make an ancient army big enough to loot and pillage whatever they want?

[Celadon's Penultimate]

 *ahem* I do believe I did.

[Smackgiver]

Ooh!  Nifty, that one.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

 Why, thank you.

[Smackgiver]

Book of Everything + Speed Reading (the power on the SPL, not the generally accepted term)

[WonderDrow]

If you mean this Speed-reading then yeah, good find.

With this Speed Reading you would need a support power like Enhanced Memory.  

[Smackgiver]

Yep.  The former, not the latter.  I inadvertently left off the hyphen.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

*ahem* The first one is more properly referred to as Osmosis.

[Smackgiver]

Agreed.  I think the Speed-reading label doesn't really apply.  I'm just going strictly by SPL nomenclature.  Ther are other speed reading powers that are actually speed reading.  This one should be "touch-and-learn" or "osmotic knowledge transfer" or something similar.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

No worries. I intend to fix some of them soon.

[Smackgiver]

OK.  I have a proposal and a solicitation for discussion here:

Proposal- Josh's Power Switchboard + the Superpower List

Discussion topic - assuming that we've already entered the realm of Mary Sue here, would it be reasonable to assert that you could first acquire JPS and automatically designate all future powers as "disabled until enabled"?  That way you could take your time and determine which powers you'd choose to activate in your own sequence/timing?