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The battles follow the heroes fighting initially in their normal selves, but later gaining the ability to transform, recovering their HP and obtaining special abilities. The "teamwork" function allows heroes to help each other during battle, be it reaching longer distances, dealing powerful attacks together, or combining their powers into a special attack that increases ratings when used to destroy the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villain_of_the_week.
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1. I think "gaining" means "when the heroes gains."
If so, I was wondering if "in their special selves" is omitted after "abilities."
2. I'd like to know if the underlined clauses and phrase mean "although the battle is reaching longer distances, if the heroes deals powerful attacks together."
Thank you in advance for your help.

GPY · Accepted Answer

1. The battles follow the heroes as they are doing various things: fighting ... gaining .. recovering ... obtaining ... . None of the "-ing" forms have explicit grammatical subjects, but the implied subject of all is "heroes".

I think that "obtaining special abilities" happens after they have transformed, so in that sense "in their special [= transformed] selves" is implied, but I wouldn't really say it is "omitted".

2. Your paraphrase does not make sense.

"be it ...", which means "whether it be ...", introduces three examples of things that they can achieve by using the "teamwork" function:

reaching longer distances
dealing powerful attacks together
combining their powers into a special attack

Park sang joon · Answer

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