Power Concentration

Power Compression
Son Goku and Vegeta (Dragon Ball Z) both compressing their power into a single point, amplifying them for their signature techniques.
Power/Ability to:	Compress one's power to amplify it.

The power to compress one's power to amplify it. Variation of Self-Power Augmentation. Opposite to Power Expansion.

Also Called

• Power Concentration/Condensation

Capabilities

The user can compress their powers into their own body or weapon, rather than letting it flow freely and spread out. This concentrates all the power into a more focused point, greatly amplifying all their attributes and utilization efficiency. The user can also release all the compressed power in one immensely powerful shot.

Applications

• Charged Attacks
• Energy Amplification
• Energy Concentration
• Enhanced/Supernatural/Absolute Condition
  • Enhanced/Supernatural Durability/Invulnerability
  • Enhanced/Supernatural Endurance/Pain Suppression
  • Enhanced/Supernatural/Absolute Speed
  • Enhanced/Supernatural/Absolute Stamina
  • Enhanced/Supernatural/Absolute Strength
• Force Armor Generation
• Sharpness Manipulation
• Speed Combat

Variations

• Attack Compression
• Element Concentration
• Emotion Concentration
• Energy Concentration
• Inner Beast Concentration
• Magic Concentration
• Life-Force Concentration
• Symbiotic Concentration

Associations

• Motion Concentration
• Self-Power Augmentation
• Superpower Manipulation
• Strength Concentration

Limitations

• May cause straining, harm, or potential fatality in the user's body.
• May temporarily or permanently lose their power in the process.

Known Users

Anime/Manga/Manhwa

• Saiai Kinuhata (A Certain Magical Index)
• Sylph (Black Clover)
• Arrancar (Bleach)
• Quincy (Bleach)
• Ichigo Kurosaki (Bleach)
• Kenpachi Zaraki (Bleach)
• Byakuya Kuchiki (Bleach)
• Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto (Bleach)
• Quicksword users (Claymore)
• Lenalee Lee (D.Gray-man)
• Z Fighters (Dragon Ball)
• Omega Shenron (Dragon Ball GT)
• Super 17 (Dragon Ball GT)
• Goku Black (Dragon Ball Super)
• Sadao Maou (The Devil is a Part-Timer!)
• Yue (From Common Job Class to the Strongest in the World)
• Guyver Units (Guyver)
• Ian (Marchen Awakens Romance)
• Rias Gremory (High School DxD)
• Cao Cao (Highschool DxD)
• Inuyasha (InuYasha)
• Nanoha Takamachi (Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha)
• Gaara (Naruto)
• Tsunade (Naruto)
• Sakura Haruno (Naruto)
• Senjutsu practitioners (Naruto)
• Tailed Beasts (Naruto)
• Busoshoku Haki users (One Piece)
• Bartholomew Kuma (One Piece)
• Monkey D. Luffy (One Piece)
• Tsukune Aono (Rosario + Vampire)
• Kuyō (Rosario + Vampire)
• Final Mova (Sonic X)
• Tusk (Solo Leveling)
• Baran (Solo Leveling)
• Naoe Kanno (World Witches/Strike Witches/Brave Witches)
• Yusuke Urameshi (Yu Yu Hakusho)
• Kibano (Yu Yu Hakusho)
• Kenshi Masaki (War on Geminar)

Live Television

• Kryptonians (Supergirl); via Heat Vision

Video Games

• Ayane (Dead or Alive/Ninja Gaiden)
• Terry Bogard (Fatal Fury/The King of Fighters)
• Mega Man X (Mega Man X)
• Supreme God Z (Super Robot Wars)
• Takuto Maruki (Persona 5 Royal)

Web Animation/Comics

• Nora Valkyrie (RWBY)

Gallery

Anime/Manga/Manhwa

Saiai Kinuhata's (A Certain Magical Index) Offense Armor super-compresses nitrogen around her to act as armor, blocking attacks and drastically increases her strength.

Kenpachi Zaraki (Bleach) compressing his immense spiritual pressure to act as an armor of sorts, similar to Hierro. Even Ichigo's hands got injured in a backlash without harming Zaraki.

Ichigo Kurosaki's (Bleach) Bankai, Tensa Zangetsu compresses his powers into the blade, increasing his strength, durability, and speed to tremendous levels...

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

Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto's (Bleach) Zanka no Tachi compresses all the flames into the blade, vastly increasing the offensive and defensive power to absolute levels.

Byakuya Kuchiki (Bleach) compressing his Senbonzakura Kageyoshi petal shards into full-sized swords, raising their offensive powers drastically...

...and later, Senkei: Senbonzakura Kageyoshi to compress his innumerable petal shards into swords for sharper and more powerful slashes...

...and Shūkei: Hakuteiken to compress absolutely every one of his blade shards into a single sword of immense Cutting power.

Nnoitra Gilga (Bleach) using Hierro to condense his spiritual energy onto his skin, turning it iron hard. Due to his spiritual power levels, he claims that his Hierro is the hardest of all users in history.

Using the Quicksword technique, Irene (Claymore) compresses all of her yoki energy into her arm before unleashing a barrage of sword swings with such great velocity that it is impossible to see with the naked eye.

When fully synchronized with her Innocence, Lenalee Lee's (D.Gray man) power condenses into her Dark Boots, meshing them into a morass of blades, carrying an extremely high weight.

Using the Penetrate! technique, Son Goku (Dragon Ball) compresses all of his ki into his fist enabling him to punch a gaping hole clean through King Piccolo's chest...

...and goes further by compressing his ki into his index finger, enabling him to block Trunks' sword strikes with no ill effect...

...and while using the Completed Super Saiyan Blue state, he concentrates and compresses the overflowing power of Super Saiyan Blue within his own body, allowing him to use the state to its full potential.

Piccolo (Dragon Ball Z) compressing his ki into his fingertips, amplifying his power level by more than three times, and then firing it off as his deadly attack, Makankosappo...

...and compresses his ki into his fist, enabling him to punch through the thick armor of a Cyclopian Guards.

Omega Shenron (Dragon Ball GT) compresses his Negative Karma Ball into a sphere the size of his torso, creating an energy ball powerful enough to destroy the Earth.

Super 17 (Dragon Ball GT) greatly bulks up while absorbing energy attacks, but returns to his normal state by compacting his muscle mass into usable ki.

Goku Black (Dragon Ball Super) compresses his aura into his hand to form an energy blade to impale Vegeta.

Sadao Maou (The Devil is a Part-Timer!) compresses his magic into his fist, allowing him to land a punch with the force of a nuclear explosion.

Inuyasha's (InuYasha) Iron Reaver Soul Stealer attack condenses his demonic energy into his claws, greatly increasing their strength and cutting power.

Using the Spirit Gun, Yusuke Urameshi (Yu Yu Hakusho) focuses his spirit energy into his fingertip and then fires it out like a bullet.

Kibano (Yu Yu Hakusho) compresses energy from his environment into his arm, expanding his arm muscles.

The Guyver (Guyver) compresses gravity between its palms to create the Pressure Cannon, a destructive ball of gravity waves.

Rias Gremory (High School DxD) in the process of compressing her Power of Destruction into a ball.

Nanoha Takamachi (Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha) gathers and compresses stray mana in the area into a large spear, then fires it as a large beam, the Starlight Breaker.

Ian (Marchen Awakens Romance) compresses his magical power and releases it as a powerful beam.

Gaara (Naruto) compressing the selected hardest minerals within sand and chakra into his most unbreakable defense, Absolutely Hard Defense: Shield of Shukaku...

...and again compressing the selected hardest minerals within sand and chakra into a defense piercing Absolutely Hard Attack: Spear of Shukaku.

Tsunade (Naruto) compressing all of her raw strength and chakra, and then concentrating it all into a single body part for destructive effects.

Sakura Haruno (Naruto) compressing all of her chakra, and then concentrating it all with minute control into her fist for her destructive Cherry Blossom Impact.

While using Sage Mode, Naruto Uzumaki (Naruto) can draw and focus Natural Energy into his own body, drastically heightening all of his strength, speed, durability, perception and techniques' powers.

After compressing his Tailed Beast Ball, Kurama/Nine-Tails (Naruto) projects it from his mouth as a highly destructive energy beam.

Using his mastery with the powers of the Paw Paw Fruit/Nikyu Nikyu no Mi, Bartholomew Kuma (One Piece) can compress the air itself into deadly shockwave bombs.

Monkey D. Luffy (One Piece) uses Gear Third - Bone Balloon and Busoshoku/Armament Haki - Koka to physically compress his rubbery bones, making them hard like a car tire,....

...increasing his striking and defense powers...

... Busoshoku/Armament Haki - Koka to compress his spiritual power into his fist, drastically hardening it in both offense and defense...

...and Gum Gum/Gomu Gomu no Kong Gun to physically compress his fist into his forearm before unleashing a devastating short-range punch with massive power.

Vergo (One Piece) uses Busoshoku/Armament Haki - Koka to compress his spiritual power into his entire body, drastically increasing his offense and defense.

Donquixote Doflamingo (One Piece) uses Busoshoku/Armament Haki - Koka to compress his spiritual power into his fist, drastically hardening it in both offense and defense.

Pica (One Piece) uses Busoshoku/Armament Haki to compress his spiritual power into his entire body, drastically increasing his offense and defense.

Sanji (One Piece) uses Busoshoku/Armament Haki - Koka to compress his spiritual power into his leg, drastically hardening it in both offense and defense.

In his Battle Form, Kuyō's (Rosario + Vampire) monster energy is highly concentrated and compressed throughout his body, greatly increasing his strength and combat capabilities.

Tsukune Aono (Rosario + Vampire) compresses his Yōki into his fist to throw a massively powerful punch.

By compressing the power of its Planet Egg, Final Mova (Sonic X) not only generates a gravity field powerful enough to immobilize Super Sonic and Super Shadow but also builds up enough pressure to eventually cause a universe-destroying explosion.

Cao Cao (Highschool DxD) concentrate the Balance Breaker's enhanced power of Polar Night Longinus Chakravartin into purely strengthening the holy power of the True Longinus, allow it to penetrate the Transcendent Armour of Regulus Rey Leather Rex Imperial Purpure.

Video Games

Using Hakkyokuseiken, Terry Bogard (Fatal Fury/The King of Fighters) gathers and compresses the chi-energy of the Earth itself into his body, allowing him to enhance his techniques with it...

...turning his Burn Knuckle into the Buster Wolf...

...and his Power Wave into the Power Geyser.

Mega Man X's (Mega Man X) Charge Shot works by compressing solar energy in his X-Buster and firing it.

Using the Art of the Raging Mountain God, Ayane (Dead or Alive/Ninja Gaiden) gathers and compresses natural energy into her body before releasing it in the form of a destructive shockwave by punching the ground.

Supreme God Z (Super Robot Wars) can compress and contain the entire multiverse into a tiny sphere to use as an attack.

Live Television/Movies

Kryptonians such as Supergirl (Supergirl TV series) use Heat Vision by concentrating every solar energy reserve in their bodies into their eyes.

Web Animation/Comics

Nora Valkyrie (RWBY) compresses electrical energy into her muscles, enhancing her physical strength.