Ayera said: Not much seems to have changed. Does Ran have any kind of awesome power? All I can think of is Yukari's use of her as a projectile in IaMP...
Being an apprentice of sorts, I think she's in training to become a portal/gap/boundary master, like Yukari (and by association, Chen too may also follow thus path)
having said that, this could potentially be a 'full grown' Ran.