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[Matt the Bruins fan]

Many discipline powers consume vitae at the higher levels, so there's already an implicit cap to what powers an extremely ethical vampire can use even if there's not an explicit one. Every time you merge with the ground or boost your strength to move that refrigerator away from the entrance to your hidey hole, you're using up blood that could have gone to a trauma victim in an ER. That's before you even get into how sinister most of the higher discipline powers are in terms of what they do to people....

[Matt the Bruins fan]

I tend to go with the explanation from the "Crucible of God" scenario in Gehenna. The Ravnos antediluvian was closer to achieving apotheosis and transcending the Curse of Cain to become a god than any of its fellows. But its reawakening was too noisy and drew too much attention—the most ancient vampires of the East banded together to face it down before it could achieve divinity, and the apocalyptic nature of that struggle resulted in the unfettered might of the Technocracy lowering the boom and destroying it. (The method of doing so, it should be noted, was a combination of the godlike...

[Matt the Bruins fan]

I think it makes sense for sphere vs. sphere or Prime-based countermagick to be able to work against a sphere effect the defender hasn't mastered, but for regular direct countermagick I'd say you'd need the sphere(s) at the same level as the effect you're trying to block.