<p>Yes, he can gain abilities through various means.</p>
<p>When Rimuru swallows someone, based on the anime, their body is always destroyed but their spirit can survive. Even in the case on Veldora, when he's revived his body doesn't come out, only his spirit. Rimuru had to make him a new body.</p>
<p>If Rimuru wants to gain someone's full abilities, he'd have to destroy their body in the process of analyzing it and put their spirit in a new body has he did with Veldora.</p>
<p>Rimuru can attain a spirit's abilities without killing them as in the case of Ifrit. He also gained spatial movement through a spirit.</p>
<p>He can gain new abilities by swallowing the magic with gluttony. The adventurer's icicle lance is an example.</p>
<p>He analyzed anti-magic area in season two by touch alone to gain that ability.</p>

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2021-04-19T15:01:52.357Z
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David Hobs
<p>Rimuru also can mimic skills like when he mimics black serpant in hte first episodes and i think also uses its attacks by using Great Sage's 'Analyse and Accesss'.It depends on the creatures, only if their attacks/skills are less for Great Sage's skill he can use them without consuming them.</p>

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2021-02-14T09:02:35.660Z
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kikugo
<p>In order to mimic a monster Rimuru would need to use predator to swallow a monsters body. But Rimuru can also swallow someone just to analyze them like in the case of Veldora he swallowed him so that Great Sage can analyze the barrier around Veldora in order to break it. But Rimuru has never copied a skill just by touching.</p>

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2021-04-03T17:53:54.573Z
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Faizan
<p>Rimuru Tempest gains Shizu's, Ifrit's, and the Orc Lord's powers by swallowing and killing them. Can he gain their abilities without killing them? Could he swallow someone without killing them, analyze their abilities and spit them back out alive? Could he analyze their abilities by touch instead?
Thanks for your time!</p>

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2021-02-14T04:27:25.430Z
i think he technically he did't kill veldora tempest.
Ch.Siva Ram Kishore
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2021-02-22T03:47:20.397Z
Ifrit is still alive and well and Rimuru gained all of his powers. When fighting Ifrit, the female adventurer shot icicle lance at him. He absorbed, analyzed it, then created icicle shotgun from it. So yes, it's possible.
David Hobs
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# In Reincarnated as a Slime, can Rimuru gain someone's abilities without killing them?
Posted by: username_0 on 2021-02-12
Rimuru Tempest gains Shizu's, Ifrit's, and the Orc Lord's powers by swallowing and killing them. Can he gain their abilities without killing them? Could he swallow someone without killing them, analyze their abilities and spit them back out alive? Could he analyze their abilities by touch instead?
Thanks for your time!
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> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: i think he technically he did't kill veldora tempest.  
> **username_0**: Ifrit is still alive and well and Rimuru gained all of his powers. When fighting Ifrit, the female adventurer shot icicle lance at him. He absorbed, analyzed it, then created icicle shotgun from it. So yes, it's possible.  
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### Answer by username_0 on 2021-04-19. Score: 1
Yes, he can gain abilities through various means.

When Rimuru swallows someone, based on the anime, their body is always destroyed but their spirit can survive. Even in the case on Veldora, when he's revived his body doesn't come out, only his spirit. Rimuru had to make him a new body.

If Rimuru wants to gain someone's full abilities, he'd have to destroy their body in the process of analyzing it and put their spirit in a new body has he did with Veldora.

Rimuru can attain a spirit's abilities without killing them as in the case of Ifrit. He also gained spatial movement through a spirit.

He can gain new abilities by swallowing the magic with gluttony. The adventurer's icicle lance is an example.

He analyzed anti-magic area in season two by touch alone to gain that ability.
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### Answer by username_2 on 2021-02-14. Score: 0
Rimuru also can mimic skills like when he mimics black serpant in hte first episodes and i think also uses its attacks by using Great Sage's 'Analyse and Accesss'.It depends on the creatures, only if their attacks/skills are less for Great Sage's skill he can use them without consuming them.
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### Answer by username_3 on 2021-04-03. Score: 0
In order to mimic a monster Rimuru would need to use predator to swallow a monsters body. But Rimuru can also swallow someone just to analyze them like in the case of Veldora he swallowed him so that Great Sage can analyze the barrier around Veldora in order to break it. But Rimuru has never copied a skill just by touching.
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