I literally have no idea on how to do this, help?

You were off to a good start! It's confusing at first but once you break it up it becomes a bit easier to understand. You set up the method correctly, by both declaring the return type to be a List<int>, and setting the correct parameters on GetPowersOf2, all you need to do now is set up the list to return, and then perform the Math.Pow operation.

Because we're using both List<T> and Math classes, you'll have to add the correct using directives up top to start,

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;

Next, inside your method, instantiate a new variable called returnList so we can return the list of integers to the method

public static List<int> GetPowersOf2(int input)
{
            var returnList = new List<int>();

Then create a for loop to populate the list! Setting up the for loop is pretty straightforward, but you have to remember to set your limit to be less than or equal to input otherwise your list will be one integer short (i < input +1 also works). The return block is the tricky part. We have to use the Add method on our new returnList variable to add our integers to the list, and inside the Add method we can directly call Math.Pow, which takes two parameters. The challenge wants every integer to be raised to the value of 2, making our first parameter the number 2! The next parameter is i from our for loop, which is every number up to our users input raised to the power of 2. However Math.Pow only takes the type double, so you'll want to use type-casting and change the return type to int by placing (int) just before Math.Pow()

            for (int i = 0; i <= input; i++)
            {
                returnList.Add((int)Math.Pow(2, i));
            }

Next, return the returnList variable back to the GetPowersOf2 method and you're done!

            return returnList;
}