Defense Augmentation

Defense Augmentation
Kinuhata Saiai's (Toaru Majutsu no Index/A Certain Magical Index) Offense Armor super-compresses nitrogen around her to act as armor, blocking attacks and drastically increases her strength.
Power/Ability to:	Enhance the defense/durability of self and/or others.

"I can't pierce through...even with my snake sword!!"

― Orochimaru on Naruto's Nine-Tails Cloak (Naruto)

The power to enhance the defensive capabilities of oneself and/or others. Technique of Defense Manipulation. Variation of Combat Augmentation. Opposite to Attack Augmentation and Defense Reduction.

Also Called

• Defense Amplification/Enhancement/Increase
• Durability Amplification/Augmentation/Enhancement/Increase

Capabilities

The user can enhance the defensive capabilities of themself and/or others so that they can reach high-level mastery and control instantaneously, even reach a level of power that is usually beyond their limits alone. Users cannot steal or give power, only enhance the ones their targets already have.

Applications

• Damage Reduction
• Peak Human/Enhanced/Supernatural/Absolute Defense
• Peak Human/Enhanced/Supernatural Durability/Invulnerability/Absolute Invulnerability
  • Durability Concentration

Variations

• Defense Calling
• Dermal Armor
• Elemental Enhanced Durability
• Force-Field Generation
• Skin Hardening
  • Layer Reinforcement

Associations

• Augmentation
• Defense Calling
• Defense Manipulation
• Durability Infinitum
• Enhanced Defense
• Enhanced Durability
• Physical Augmentation

Limitations

• Can be countered by Defense Bypassing.
• Target effects usually fade over time.
• May only be able to enhance one's own defense or others.

Known Users

• Samurai (Battle Realms); via Dragon Skin
• Arrancar (Bleach); via Hierro
• Quincy (Bleach); via Blut Vene
• Zenos (The Brilliant Healer's New Life in the Shadow)
• Querl Dox/Brainiac 5 (DC Comics)
• Kris (Deltarune); via Courage
• Several defensive technique users (Dragon Ball)
• Wendy Marvell (Fairy Tail)
• Greed (Fullmetal Alchemist)
• Arme (Grand Chase)
• Vortigaunts (Half-Life)
• Gabimaru (Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku)
• Sylar (Heroes); via Telekinesis
• Cole MacGrath (Infamous); via Reduce Damage
• Danny Rand/Iron Fist (Marvel Comics)
• Gunther Bain/Unus the Untouchable (Marvel Comics)
• Maverick/Agent Zero (Marvel Comics)
• Nathan Summers/Cable (Marvel Comics)
• Steven Armstrong (Metal Gear)
• Taiyo Asano (Mission: Yozakura Family)
• Espers (Mob Psycho 100)
• Eijiro Kirishima/Red Riot (My Hero Academia)
• Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu/Real Steel (My Hero Academia)
• Jinchūriki (Naruto); via Transformations
• Armament Haki users (One Piece)
• Kiriko Kamori (Overwatch)
• Pokémon that can use Defense enhancement moves (Pokémon)
• Artemis "Ironclad" Kurkaiser (Shadow Fight)
• Force Barrier users (Star Wars)
• Juggernauts (Strike Force Heroes); via Immovable Object or Reflective Plating/Deflective Armor, and "I'm the Juggernaut"
• Medics (Strike Force Heroes); via Kevlar Vests
• Tank (Strike Force Heroes); via Full Protection, Iron Will, or Unbreakable, and Ricochet or True Tank
  • Bull; via Kevlar Vests
• Monarchs (Titanfall); via Upgrade Core Tier 3: Superior Chassis
• Kinuhata Saiai (Toaru Majutsu no Index/A Certain Magical Index)
• Arlo (unORDINARY)
• John Doe ((unORDINARY); via Aura Manipulation

Known Objects

• Great Wall (Age of Empires II)
• Hoardings (Age of Empires II)
• Armor of Achilles (Age of Mythology)
• Armor of Brynhild (Age of Mythology)
• Fafnir's Golden Mailcoat (Age of Mythology)
• Menat Necklace (Age of Mythology)
• Nine Cauldrons (Age of Mythology)
• Prow of the Argo (Age of Mythology)
• Scales of a Catoblepas (Age of Mythology)
• Thundercloud Shawl (Age of Mythology)
• Blast Furnace (Battle Realms)
• Ironskin Potion (Battle Realms)
• Reinforced Plating (Battle Realms)
• Batteries (Half-Life)
• Stun Batons (Half-Life)
• Suit Chargers (Half-Life)
• Regulus Nemea (High School DxD)
• Rook and Queen Evil Pieces (High School DxD)
• Scabbard of Excalibur (High School DxD)
• Key of Domination (Honkai Impact 3rd)
• 5-U-93-R (Injustice video game series)
• John Wick's Suit (John Wick)
• Maverick's Body Armor (Marvel Comics)
• Vibranium (Marvel Comics)
• Guard Power Up/Super Guard (Mega Man)
• Life Up (Mega Man X/ZX)
• Energy Tanks (Metroid)
• Beacons (Minecraft); when set to Resistance
• Golden Apples (Minecraft)
  • Enchanted Golden Apples
• Potions of Fire Resistance (Minecraft)
• Potions of the Turtle Master (Minecraft)
• Totems of Undying (Minecraft)
• Ultra Strength Serum (People Playground)
  • Ultra Strength Syringe
• +25% Blast Resistance (Team Fortress 2)
• +25% Bullet Resistance (Team Fortress 2)
• +25% Fire Resistance (Team Fortress 2)
• +30% Crit Resistance (Team Fortress 2)
• +100% Building Health (Team Fortress 2)
• Battalion's Backup (Team Fortress 2); via Augmentation Field Projection
• Canteen (Team Fortress 2); via Become Übercharged
• Medi Gun (Team Fortress 2); via its ÜberCharge
• Quick-Fix (Team Fortress 2); via its former ÜberCharge
• Vaccinator (Team Fortress 2); via its ÜberCharge
• Bulwark (Titanfall)
• Chassis Upgrade (Titanfall)
• Reinforced Particle Walls (Titanfall)
• Shield Upgrade (Titanfall)
• Upgrade Core Tier 3: Superior Chassis (Titanfall)
• Armor (Various Fiction)
• Shields (Various Fiction)

Known Powers/Techniques

• Architecture (Age of Empires); game mechanic only
• Architecture (Age of Empires II); game mechanic only
• Careening (Age of Empires II); game mechanic only
• Furor Celtica (Age of Empires II)
• Masonry (Age of Empires II); game mechanic only
• Parthian Tactics (Age of Empires II); game mechanic only
• Dragon Skin (Battle Realms)
• Song of Morning Dew (Battle Realms)
• Spider Silk (Battle Realms)
• Blut Vene (Bleach)
• Hierro (Bleach)
• Defensive techniques (Dragon Ball)
• Ultimate Shield (Fullmetal Alchemist)
• Vortessence (Half-Life)
• Reduce Damage (Infamous)
• Invulnerable (Madness Combat)
• Absorption (Minecraft)
• Blast Protection (Minecraft)
• Feather Falling (Minecraft)
• Fire Protection (Minecraft)
• Fire Resistance (Minecraft)
• Protection (Minecraft)
• Projectile Protection (Minecraft)
• Resistance (Minecraft)
• Armament Haki (One Piece)
• Protection Suzu (Overwatch)
• Defense enhancement moves (Pokémon)
• Stubborn Hothead/Stubborn as a Mule (Shadow Fight)
• Force Barrier (Star Wars)
• Full Protection (Strike Force Heroes)
• "I'm the Juggernaut" (Strike Force Heroes)
• Immovable Object (Strike Force Heroes)
• Reflective Plating/Deflective Armor (Strike Force Heroes)
• Ricochet (Strike Force Heroes)
• True Tank (Strike Force Heroes)
• Unbreakable (Strike Force Heroes)
• Offense Armor (Toaru Majutsu no Index/A Certain Magical Index)

Gallery

Ichigo Kurosaki (Bleach) using Blut Vene to compress spiritual pressure into his bloodstream, drastically increasing his defensive powers and sealing wounds shut.

Using his Ki, Son Goku (Dragon Ball) enhances his defensive abilities to the extent that he can block sword attacks with one finger.

Using his Ultimate Shield, Greed (Fullmetal Alchemist) hardens his skin into carbon, enhancing his defenses.

Batteries (Half-Life) recharge HEV Suits and PCVs' protective power by giving around 10-15 armor points.

Suit Chargers (Half-Life) continuously recharge HEV Suits and PCVs' protective power until they deplete of power outlet.

Stun Batons (Half-Life) can seemingly work as improvised batteries to recharge the Mark V HEV Suit's protective power by giving 7 armor points.

Vortigaunts (Half-Life) can use the Vortessence to recharge the Mark V HEV Suit's defensive power.

Using his Iwagakure Ninpo, Gabimaru (Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku) can boost his body with defensive, harden effects.

Using telekinesis, Sylar (Heroes) enhances his defensive ability to survive being shot.

The Regulus Nemea (High School DxD) has the secondary ability to protect its wielder from projectile weapons and attacks.

Using Reduce Damage, Cole MacGrath (Infamous) permanently augments his defensive capability.

5-U-93-R (Injustice video game series) is a Kryptonian nanotech drug that increases the user's durability to superhuman levels.

Christopher Nord/Maverick's (Marvel Comics) initial body armor was connected to an artificial booster field pack device with large cylinders above it...

...As Agent Zero, he was adorned in a battle suit comprised of a vibranium microweave mesh which not only enable it to absorb light impacts.

Danny Rand/Iron Fist (Marvel Comics) can focus his chi to generate an "aura" to protect himself from energy-based attacks to a varying degree and make himself more resilient against physical damage.

When he had his telekinesis, Nathan Summers/Cable (Marvel Comics) could use TK fields to deflect projectiles...

...and slow down their inertia.

Steven Armstrong (Metal Gear) has nanotech infusion, which causes his skin to harden different parts of his skin in response to physical trauma while also giving him immense strength.

Shiego Kageyama/Mob (Mob Psycho 100)

Teruki Hanazawa (Mob Psycho 100)

Toichiro Suzuki (Mob Psycho 100)

Eijiro Kirishima/Red Riot's (My Hero Academia) Quirk allows him to harden his skin for defense and attack.

Charlotte Katakuri (One Piece) can enhance Armament Haki to extreme levels in conjunction with his Mochi Mochi no Mi which makes it a lot stronger than regular Haki-enhanced armor.

Jinbe (One Piece) uses Armament Haki to protect his arms from bladed attacks as well as to increase the power of his arms.

Using Armament Haki, Monkey D. Luffy (One Piece) can increase his defensive power.

Pica (One Piece) can coat his whole body in Armament Haki to drastically increase his offensive and defensive powers.

Roronoa Zoro (One Piece) specializes in Armament Haki to protect his katanas from damage and increase their cutting power.

Sanji (One Piece) uses Armament Haki to protect his legs from attacks as well as increasing the power of his kicks.

Trafalgar D. Water Law (One Piece) using Armament Haki to defend himself against Doflamingo's Five String of Color.

Vergo (One Piece) can coat his whole body in Armament Haki to drastically increasing his offense and defense.

Bronzong (Pokémon) using Iron Defense.

Every time he gets hit, Artemis "Ironclad" Kurkaiser (Shadow Fight) becomes more durable thanks to his Stubborn Hothead/Stubborn as a Mule power.

Force Barrier (Star Wars) allows the user to create an invisible force field that repels blaster fire...

...or falling debris.

The Medi Gun's (Team Fortress 2) ÜberCharge grants the Medic and his patient 8 seconds of guaranteed invulnerability.

The Quick-Fix's (Team Fortress 2) old ÜberCharge granted the Heavy temporary invulnerability.

The Battalion's Backup's (Team Fortress 2) augmentative field augments the defense of anyone within the field.

Videos

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