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I don't know if anyone else has a different theory, but the series would go really differently if Boboiboy wasn't the first one to discover Ochobot

Like granted, yes obviously it would be different, but how different? Well, I have a theory, I'm not sure if it's disproven yet or not, but I have a theory.

The 2nd Movie tells us that BBB's elemental powers are not originally his, right? Yaya, Ying, and Fang are powers Ochobot granted too, but they're never really explained, it just shows as something that suits each character.

My theory is that Ochobot doesn't really give powers, but rather, gives the watch, the watch takes a part of the user, and "crystalizes" as a power. In other words, he doesn't choose to give powers, but the power morphs itself according to the user.

So BBB only happened to get his elemental powers from the fact that he's the first to meet Ochobot. My other theory that's related to this one is that his actual powers are basic self-splitting, not Elemental powers unlike what we've believed. Ochobot simply gave him those because he was the first to meet Ochobot. Why else does Retak'ka never even tries to split himself? It's just not a power that comes from the elementals, but a power unique to Boboiboy himself.

With this too, it makes sense why no other elemental user has known about fusion. It's not even possible for them. They can't split themselves, so they can't combine themselves either. To analogize it:

Imagine water. Water represents an elemental user. Now imagine rocks, each a different colour. Each rock represents the elemental powers themselves. When a user uses an elemental power, you throw a rock in, and you freeze the water. Even if you try to throw another rock in, it wont work, because the water is frozen.

Meanwhile, Bobooboy has the power to basically summon another cup, and put water and rocks in each, then freeze. So even after freezing, you can take one of the blocks of ice, dump them in with the other, and boom. Fusion.

So if Ochobot saw Adu-du first instead of BBB, well. He wouldn't get the split thing BBB's famous for but he almost definitely would get the Elementals. I just think Boboiboy never split himself for more than the amount of elementals he has because he needs to associate something with each split to work and he already associates the split thing with elemental powers too much for him to try without it.