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Originally Posted by Ulzgoroth
It does if they're smart about it. Insubstantiality lets them pass through barriers and fly, so they can approach from angles that would normally be impossible and thus are less likely to be checked. It makes them completely silent, I think, and at a minimum makes them move silently. And if they want to push it they can keep most of their body hidden in the walls - while by default they need to breathe in open air and of course need to expose their eyes to see anything, that doesn't preclude keeping everything but their face 'submerged'.
Mostly not automatic benefits to Stealth there, but a lot that can be leveraged into going undetected.
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One of the Epics in The Reckoners had Insubstantiality as his primary defensive power, and he was very difficult to engage, even once the characters figured out how to get around his Insubstantiality, due to his habit of only sticking part of his face out of walls (to allow him to see). He arguably wouldn't have been as much of a threat if he wasn't also able to attack with solidified shadows, of course, but in such a case he probably would have just stuck to spying on them and reporting their location to his forces, which honestly would have likely been ultimately more effective (instead, he obsessively went after and tried to kill the guy who was using his weakness against him; it didn't work out well for the Epic).