Guaranteed Damage

Guaranteed Damage
Indra's (Hindu Mythology) Vajra is imbued with the Law that no one can take an attack from the legendary weapon and emerge unscathed.
Power/Ability to:	To always deal damage with a strike.

The power to always successfully deal damage with a strike. Sub-power of Damage Manipulation. Not to be confused with Absolute Attack.

Also Known As

• Chip/Fixed/Scratch Damage

Description

The user's attacks, in whatever form they take, always inflict damage with every successful strike. Regardless of the targets defenses or toughness, they cannot take such blows and emerge unharmed.

Certain versions of this ability even guarantee a minimum amount of damage, ignoring Damage Reduction-type defenses and powers.

Applications

• Damage Inducement
• Defense Break
• Defensive Damage
• Immunity Bypassing - Against damage(type) immunities.
• Invulnerability Bypassing
• Negation Immunity - Against damage-cancelling abilities.

Associations

• Absolute Attack
• Guaranteed Hit
• Percentage-Based Attacks

Limitations

• Absolute Invincibility
• Flawless Indestructibility
• May not counter things like Attack Prevention
• May still only deal a small percent of damage to the target, such as "1 hp," per hit.
• User still needs to land the attacks.

Known Users

See also: Fixed Damage Attack See also: Scratch Damage

• Shakak (Dungeons and Dragons)
• Bog (Elemental Story)
• Caster Leonardo Da Vinci (Fate Series)
• Various attacks, beings and spells (Final Fantasy Series)
  • Jumbo Cactuar; via 10,000 Needles
  • Omega Weapon (Final Fantasy VIII)
• Indra (Hindu Mythology); via the Vajra
• Amon (Lufia: The Legend Returns)
• Police (Prototype)
• Nomad (Runescape)
• Heather (Science Girls!)
• Michael of the Four Archangels (Shin Megami Tensei IV)
• Hohten (Sushi Striker: The Way of Sushido)

Known Objects

• Druaga's Mace (Dungeons and Dragons)
• Rocks (Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark)
• Various items (Fire Emblem Series)
  • The Light Brand (The Binding Blade)
  • The Lightning Sword (Gaiden)
  • Crossbows (Radiant Dawn)
• The Vajra (Hinduism)
• HORUS Pegasus-pattern Mech (Lancer)
• Plasma Shrimp (Risk Of Rain 2); if player has shield

Gallery

In part by her own brilliance and in part with the help of her glasses and mechanical arm, Da Vinci (Fate Series) instantly picks apart the mechanism of any defense and recompiles her own Noble Phantasm to bypass it, forcefully dealing a fixed set damage that ignores Magic Resistance, defensive Skills and even defensive Noble Phantasms.