Upon evaluating the pseudocapacitance contribution (k 1 v) of electrode materials, the exact capacity (also termed as actual pseudocapacity, k Q ) is usually ignored. However, there is a significant variation between k 1 v and k Q . Herein, we designed tunable in situ core-shell electrode materials to examine the variation between the k 1 v and k Q . Using nickel foam (NF) as the starting material, the internal structure of NF is systematically controlled via in situ strategy to obtain the optimized nickel oxide core-shell architectures (denoted NFNTO).Despite the directly oxidized NF (denoted NFO) exhibits a higher k 1 v (79.1%) than the NFNTO (47.6%), the k Q of NFNTO is ≈2.3 fold larger than NFO at the highest current density of 8.0 mA cm À2 . The higher k Q can be attributed to the integration of titanium that shortens the Li + diffusion pathway, boosts the diffusion co-efficient and improves the electronic conductivity towards achieving enhanced ionic transport.