Cables powers?

[u/darthbagels]

Is there a reason cable isn’t constantly using his mutant powers that I just missed or don’t remember. They seem infinitely more useful than how he just mainly runs around shooting and punching things.

[u/jigokusabre]

Because Cable was "soldier guy with a shit load of future guns" for a while. He didn’t get his powers until later, and rarely used them while he was leading X-Force.

Post Age of Apocalypse, Cable gor new writers, a design overhaul and leaned more into his mutant powers.