Transform to remove Powers

[BenKimball]

Me again!

A friend has a character with a Major Transform (man-made materials into natural substances) to simulate his shamanistic ability to cause the innate natural earth spirit to revert anything "unnatural" back to its primitive form. Let's say he wants to use this power to transform a villain's powered armor suit back into its natural components (iron, copper, and tin powder, I guess), effectively destroying it. How is the target's BODY determined? This gets really complex when the armor suit is bought as separate powers (i.e., Armor, Damage Resistance, Knockback Resistance, +STR, and +CON).

Secondly, am I correct in thinking that this sort of power sounds more like a Dispel (all technological powers simultaneously)?

Thanks as always!
Ben

[Steve Long]

There are often multiple ways to build the same ability. Dispel is definitely one possibility here, and it's the one I'd favor personally, but that doesn't mean the Transform method isn't necessarily legit.

The rules for damaging Foci are on 5E 189; if you want to use the Transform method you can probably adapt some rule from them to establish a "BODY" for a gadget. If this seems complex to you (because of multiple powers in the Focus or whatever), that may be a good indicator that the Dispel method would work better for you.