@anthp2000: Slade's Ikon suit is an imperfect prototype, there's ways around it. Though the only real weakness that's made it into the comics thus far is the bare sleeve on his left arm, which this super fast/agile black guy exploited with a syringe that ended up blinding him:
It was also hacked by Jericho in the 7th Generation Ikon suit after Slade's big fight with Superman, but since then it has been modified so that "it cannot be hacked." Christopher Priest and David Von Domelon have stated on Priest's website that there are additional ways to get past the Ikon suit' the big two are lasers since they're barely affected by gravity and being attacked on multiple sides due to the gravity sheath getting weaker and weaker the more surface area it has to cover, which was kinda-sorta stated in issue #6.
Now I'm going off the top of my head as it would be a pain to track down the exact thread, but they've also stated that a good enough martial artist could get past the Ikon suit by hitting Slade in specific spots so that the gravity sheath would jerk him around inside of it, though I fail to see how that would actually stop him. It was also stated that Wolverine could potentially get past it by placing his bare fist on Slade and then popping his claws, whilst hoping that the snikt can beat the response time of the gravity sheath. This was all theoretical though, and hasn't been supported by anything in-universe thus far.
In short, the Ikon suit is in fact OP, but I don't think it makes Slade any sort of mid-tier.
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