Main articles: Super-Speed, Super-Strength, Senses, Healing Factor

 

A werecoyote has superhuman abilities, being were-creatures. They possess enhanced strength, agility, heightened senses, and an excellerated healing factor. Once they join a Pack, all these abilities and therir skill in using them will improve.

 

In More Bad than Good, Malia Tate was forced into human form by Scott McCall's Roar. This resulted in Malia not being able to access her abilities, as well as her shapeshifting. She did manage to break off a door handle, though she said in order to access her super-strength she had to concentrate hard.

 

Once Malia joined Scott's Pack, her skill and physical capabilities, her strength and speed enhanced in that she is able to take on opponents. In The Dark Moon, Malia was able to incapacitate a Calavera hunter that was twice her size with enhanced reflexes and power, in Dreamcatchers she took on then subdued a kanima/werewolf Chimera with expert combat prowess, and in Required Reading, she took on the posthuman the Pathologist, exhibiting her super-strength and reflexes with a high-jump kick.

 

In Ouroboros, Theo Raeken blew apart an electrified fence by physically withstanding the current.

 

Similarly to her natural skills, Malia, in The Dark Moon has trouble focusing her enhanced senses, possibly also due to Scott's Roar, deadening her Coyote side. She attempts to locate Scott, Lydia and Kira from the inside of a holding cell through multiple walls. After kissing Stiles, the emotional stimuli results in her succeeding in "turning on" her hearing, and she's able to hear Scott being tortured at the hands of the Calaveras.

 

In Dreamcatchers, Malia was struck with the paralytic venom of a Kanima, paralyzing her. After being given instructions by Alan Deaton on how to subconsciously activate her healing, Malia suceeded by focusing her body to be mobile, "seeing it in (her) mind", and she was able to overcome the paralytic toxin.