The ability to go into a mode made for defense. A sub-power of Mode Switching.
Also Called
- Armor Mode
- Defender
- Defensive State
Capabilities
The user can go into a mode or form made for defense allowing the user to be invincible and completely nullify attacks or take half the damage from enemies and objects.
Some users can use this mode for protection against special attacks such as mental powers, elemental, and various others or even take it a step further by as returning, countering, and deflecting attacks as well.
Applications
- Absolute Defense
- Bulletproof Skin
- Counter
- Dermal Armor
- Enhanced Durability
- Enhanced Regeneration
- Fireproof Skin
- Force Field Generation/Force Armor Generation
- Invulnerability
Associations
- Elemental Exoskeleton
- Evolution
- Fortress Physiology
- Mode Switching
- Powered Form
- Powered Exoskeleton
- Transformation
Limitations
- May hinder the user's speed and movement.
- Will not always work and can back fire.
- Defense mode may limit aggression or offensive power of user.
Known Users
- Alex Mercer (Prototype)
- James Heller (Prototype)
- Deoxys (Pokemon)
- Shinobu Sensui (Yu Yu Hakasho)
- White Fatalis (Monster Hunter)
- Various Characters (Final Fantasy series)
- Issei Hyoudou (Highschool DxD); via Welsh Dragonic Rook
- Kylie Galen (Shadow Falls); when protecting others
- Force Sensitive practitioners of Soresu or Shien/Djem So (Star Wars)
Gallery
Deoxys's defense form (Pokemon)
James Heller (Prototype 2)