Nanoha Takamachi - Powers

Powers

Nanoha, despite her lack of experience, has demonstrated considerable magical talent. Many of her techniques are taught by Yūno or improvised from already learned abilities. She specializes in shooting skills, but has a balanced set of abilities, with variations in both her defensive and offensive powers. Although she isn't as fast as Fate, she has higher defensive power and guided projectiles. Her command phrase for her shooting abilities is "Shoot!".

• Raising Heart Activation — Nanoha changes Raising Heart into Device Mode, and usually her Barrier Jacket is activated as well. The transformation was intended to be performed with a long passphrase, but Nanoha only uses this incantation in its entirety once before discarding it, replacing it with "Raising Heart onegai!" (Raising Heart, please!).
• Lyrical! Magical! — This is Nanoha's personal incantation for using Raising Heart. Although she calls this out to unlock abilities more complex than simple force fields (such as Raising Heart's Sealing Mode), once the ability is unlocked she seldom needs to use the incantation, except to seal Jewel Seeds. In A's she uses the phrase to kick off a training exercise.
• Jewel Seed Seal — Used to seal the Jewel Seeds so that they will not fuse with anything.
• Area Search — This extends Nanoha's magical senses, helping her to find disturbances, such as Jewel Seeds.
  • Wide Area Search (WAS) - An improved version of Area Search where Nanoha leaves something like a ball of light to different places while Raising Heart controls and monitors the search.
• Restrict Lock — This is Nanoha's binding-type magic, analogous to Fate's Lightning Bind ability.