Is Ryder a more powerful biotic than Shepard?

Was it biotic flight before that or just his jet pack. Far as I know until he can load profiles his movement isn’t biotic. Though again if jet packs were in ME3 adept Shepard would have biotic jet packs just like how his shields become barriers when biotic.

Base profile if you choose adept (unless I'm misremembering-- I usually go scrapper).

Whereas Shepard still can't float.

...And yeah, in case it wasn't obvious, I don't think there's a straightforward answer to this (nor is there intended to be one). Ryder is a lot younger and greener than Shepard, with a very different toolset for problem solving, including the brain buddy. And they're in different games, with different gameplay. And neither Ryder nor Shepard are explicitly shown throwing around a lot of biotic power in cutscenes (Shep's barriers and biotic punches sneak in, as well as a few lines referencing the chosen class in ME1 and 3), so I don't think either of them are intended to be powerhouses on the level of Samara or Cora.

But I don't think Ryder and the gimmick that makes Ryder your player character should just be dismissed out of hand. Especially while Shepard's extra hardware and training

I'd venture that Ryder is technically the more powerful biotic with SAM there to calculate and optimize their mass effect fields, but that Shepard has ten times the training and a hundred times more experience fighting and killing with theirs. In anything but a pure biotic armwrestling contest, my money would be on Shepard any day of the week.

I was thinking he was in his early twenties, like 23.  Not sure where I heard that, or if it's even accurate. 

The very first thing that turned me off about Andromeda was Ryder being an overgrown teenager. Even Shepard's age of 29-31 was kinda pushing it for such a decorated and highly trained solider, even one who enlisted at 18.

In my head, Shepard is in her mid-thirties at the least and Ryder is an unusually mature 26-yearold who is really conscious of her youth throughout the game.

Ryder is 22 so you aer kind of right. Whilst the yd olac kexperienc eand have a wet behind the ears feel about them this was really the firstmission they've ever been in charge of. So the wet behind the ears vibe the game had was never much of a problem to me.

To think about it all...Shep knows how to use "Warp" - one of the most powerful and useful abilities in ME. Ryder according to the game and for some strange reasons of removing it from the game MEA, doesn't know it. So, imo, Shep will just use "Warp + double - throw" and Ryder is finished.

Eh. They added warp back in as a late MP thing. Too much work to add it back into SP for a free update. It’s just a game mechanic change. They went with lance for the warp like effect. Lance is lame but that is what they did.

I think it’s called lance. The lame throw a weak ball animation. How bad was Ryder mocked in ball games with that throwing arm.

Shepard also proved that warp thrown from a distance is also fairly easy to dodge.  AnF, because it's thrown closer in and has quite a large AoE, isn't.  Ryder's Shockwave is also better than any shockwave they had in ME2 or ME3.

aha, in this case better use lash, or dominate - it is even better as the game proved. And very useful. And after that claymore or crusader. Or even Javelin - CD is fast anyway.

It always broke in a second for me even fully upgraded. I’d rather avoid the missile and just kill them.