WARNING: Contains spoilers for Season 1-3 of The Life of a Wanted Changeling

After speaking with DWC, I have now made this thread showing the strength levels and abilities of our favorite changeling's super-powered rage mode. Upper phases are accessed when Bugze gets extremely stressed/angry, but appear alot faster when Nightshade is in danger. Please at least glance at this when about to comment a Nightmare Cloak fight scene.

One constant factor is that the more Nightmare Tails are out, the more aggressive and out-of-control Bugze becomes.

PHASE 0
-Appearance: Like a normal changeling, but with a spiky orange mane
-Nightmare Tails: 0
-Strength Level: Like any changeling, he's weaker than any normal pony, but with slightly more durability due to his Earth Pony blood (with the exception of his healing factor and certain attacks such as the Falcon Punch or Fus Ro Dah)

Power Glove abilities
-Incinerate!: Sets target on fire
-Electro Bolt: Shoots electro bolt
-Winter Blast: Freezes target
-Insect Swarm: Summons a small cloud of bees to seek out and sting targets (NOTE: Also has ability to stun changelings)

PHASE 1
-Appearance: Glowing orange eyes
-Nightmare Tails: 0
-Strength Level: Just above the level of a bodybuilder/athlete (barely below Shining Armor or Big Macintosh)

Power Glove abilities
-Incinerate!: Same as Phase 0
-Electro Bolt: Same as Phase 0
-Winter Blast: Same as Phase 0
-Insect Swarm: Same as Phase 0

PHASE 2
-Appearance: Nightmare Cloak (midnight-colored smoky mist that surrounds Bugze) appears
-Nightmare Tails: 1-2
-Strength Level: Can take down a squad or hold his own against a teenage dragon

Power Glove abilities
-Incinerate!: Shoots a stream of nightmareish-purple fire
-Electro Bolt: Nightmareish purple and blue lightning
-Winter Blast: Shoots dark-blue ice crystals
-Telekinesis: Force Choke ability gained
-Insect Swarm: Unleash a larger cloud of wasps and hornets (NOTE: Also causes limited temporary mind-control over changelings)

PHASE 3
Unique to this phase is that when entering it, he lets out a horrible piercing scream called the “Nightmare Scream” that causes auditory pain on all nearby beings.
-Appearance: Grows horns, fangs sharpen, and the Nightmare Cloak becomes more unstable.
-Nightmare Tails: 3-5
-Strength Level: Can go toe-to-toe with a young alicorn, a full-grown dragon, and even a whole company of Royal Guards.

Shadow Shoryuken: Upgraded Shoryuken where you crouch and deliver a disorienting blow with one hoof while wrapping a Nightmare Tail around the other before sending the wrapped hoof smashing into your opponent in a vicious rising uppercut followed by midnight-colored afterimages that launches your opponent into the sky at high speed.

No Shadow Barrage: Upgraded No Shadow Kick where you jump forward and hit opponent with a flurry of kicks and shadow fox tail strikes.

Meteor Impact: Slam tails into ground with earth-shaking force to launch yourself high in the air. Once at the height of your ascent, cast a midnight-colored forcefield around yourself before slamming back down to earth causing a medium shockwave.

Falcon Missile: Upgraded Falcon Punch and Bugze's de facto signature Finishing Move where he smashes two Nightmare Tails into the ground, reels himself back to stretch them, and then wraps a hoof in a Nightmare Tail before slingshotting himself forward to deliver a devastating Falcon Punch.

Power Glove abilities
-Incinerate!: Causes a cluster of explosions in target area
-Electro Bolt: Force lightning-esque webs of lightning or when fired into the air, it can call down a lightning strike on groups of enemies.
-Winter Blast: Makes a big pillar of ice explode forward from target spot

PHASE 4
-Appearance: Grows horns, fangs sharpen, medium-sized tusks jut out of jaws, sharp claws sprout from hooves, two shadowy-looking bat wings and you are roughly larger than Big Mac.
-Nightmare Tails: 6-8
-Strength Level: Can devastate an army and take on an Ursa Major or a more experienced alicorn

Psycho Break Smasher: Upgraded Psycho Crusher where you launch yourself spinning forward while covered in the Nightmare Cloak to smash through anything in your way (even buildings and mountains) in a large streak of midnight flames.

Lunatic Frenzy: Rapidly teleport around target and strike with hooves and tails, increasing speed and frequency with each teleport. After a frenzied barrage of hits from every direction, use 4 tails to hold target in place before raising 5th and 6th tails and slamming it into opponent to launch yourself into the air. Once the 4 other tails are at maximum stretch, you wrap the other 2 tails around your rear limbs before slingshoting into target with a massively powerful double-stomp.

PHASE 5/NIGHTMARE BUGZE
-Nightmare Tails: 9
-Strength Level: Run...
Meteor Storm: Upgraded Meteor Impact where you call down a large meteor before slamming your tails into the ground with such ground-shaking force that it launches you high into the air at high speed at the meteor in a sonic boom which disorients and knocks down/away nearby enemies. Upon impact, you shatter the meteor into pieces that you then rapidly fling at targets below with your Nightmare Tails resulting in a rain of death that each hits with the concussive force of bombs. You then cast a midnight-colored forcefield around yourself before using your tails to launch yourself at the ground at high speed before impacting in a massive shockwave.

Nightmare Gravity Implosion: Uses your Nightmare Tails to lift yourself into the air while charging a large orange-and-midnight colored attack ball of power in your hooves raised above your head. When the ball has reached the size of a 5 Buffalo, you hurl it at the target where upon impact it will begin to violently suck all objects nearby into the center of the ball as it rotates in a sphere of screaming death before it explodes in a massive orange bubble from Tartarus.

Infinite Mass Punch: Vibrate to just under Light Speed to hit with the mass of a white dwarf star and the force of a supernova (Can be combined with Falcon Punch or Shoryuken and is capable of sending target smashing through the moon)

Damn that phase 3 tho

Cool! At some point, we'll have an open source list of his abilities!

Meteor impact ftw.

Phase 3 is really powerful, (as shown) but Bugze's gonna have to learn how to control his rage, or else Phase 4 (which can kill a grown princess as predicted) might be unleashed. And wasn't there a time when Bugze completely skipped 2 in Fillydelphia or was I just imagining that?

NIGHTMARE CLOAK POWERS UPDATED!

MIX-UP SMASH

A special mode that causes two dials with various symbols of the Power Glove attacks to appear. By turning the dials, you can combine 2 abilities to form a super attack, but you can only use it 3 times before the Power Glove shuts down to recharge;

Incincerate! + Electro Bolt = Fires a ball of electrified fire that ignites in a massive explosion upon impact.
Incinerate + Insect Swarm = Kamikabees (Fire insects that explode on contact with target(s)
Electro Bolt + Insect Swarm = Unleash a swarm of Twittermites
Electro Bolt + Winter Blast = Cover your hoof in electrified super-dense ice that shatters on impact with enemy while releasing a powerful electrical shock
Bucking Bronco + Incinerate! = Cause a geyser of lava to explode from the ground
Bucking Bronco + Winter Blast = Cause a pillar of ice to explode from the ground

The higher the phase, the more powerful and wider these attacks will become.