Who said his powers from Improbability Drive isn't combat-applicable? He gets ressurected by it, he has shown to drop buildings out of air as much as he wishes, he can randomly summon trains and collapse rooms, he has ressurected Hank and etc. he did all of this after he gained his powers from Improbability Drive, he hasn't shown to do any of this before MC5. Drive clearly is combat-applicable.
He technically doesn't, or at least hasn't shown to. He only stopped getting ressurected after his ID gets destroyed. And even if we don't count MC7 he still shown to be very ressistant to fatal wounds, he can be gets stopped but he should take a shitton of damage for it. The difference between Kumonga and Tricky isn't high on a point where Kumonga could Senator Armstrong it has to be this way through Tricky's hits and could obilirate him with a strike. My main point was that Tricky could ressist the fight enough that he would start to use his hax before dying, which would give him quite advantages.
Yeah, and like i said he can last long in a melee fight enough that he could use his hax.