Thread:Savage Samurai/@comment-31816534-20180120004327/@comment-25620113-20180120013124

It depends on your definition of "shorting out". Upgrade can easily assimilate and dismantle technology with a touch and UpRigg should have this same ability. However, Upgrade himself can be shorted out by EMPs and because UpRigg is essentially Jury Rigg covered head to toe in, UpRigg would likely have this same weakness. As such though UpRigg could in theory dismantle technology very easily through both Upgrade and Jury Rigg's powers, he would likely not be able to "short out" technology the traditional way considering his weakness to EMPs (which are used to short out technology) as well as the fact that Upgrade and Jury Rigg have no history of shorting out technology that way.