Skill Negation

Skill Negation
Starlight Glimmer (My Little Pony Series) uses her magic to remove Cutie Marks, cancelling out ponies' special skills/talents.
Power/Ability to:	Cancel skills.

The power to nullify the skills of others. Sub-power of Skill Manipulation. Variation of Negation.

Also Called

• Anti-Skill
• Skill Blocking/Cancellation/Dampening/Neutralization/Nullification/Suppression

Capabilities

The user can cancel out the powers of others, making them unable to utilize their powers as long as they are under the user's effect.

Applications

• Can nullify skills
• Can prevent skills from being used
• Can disable one's combat skills to make them ineffective
• Can make people unable to read or write.

Associations

• Foreign Forces Removal.
• Negation
• Nothingness Manipulation
• Obsolescence
• Omni-Negation
• Power Deactivation
• Power Erasure
• Skill Adaptation
• Skill Erasure
• Skill Manipulation

Limitations

• May have limited range, including touch only.
• Some skills may not be negated.
• Unlike Skill Erasure, effects are mostly temporary, only effective as long as the targets are within range.
• May be a one-shot effect, skills being negated only at the instant of the attack, and will reactivate right after.
• Could be dangerous in situations where skills are required to resolve.
• May be limited to "dampening" or weakening skills.
• Cannot affect users of Negation Immunity.
• Negating acquired skills via Skill Replication may prove harder, depending on the amount copied/absorbed.

Known Users

• Visnu (Kubera)
• Users of bhavati asvins (Kubera)
• Starlight Glimmer (My Little Pony Series)
• Dark King of the Abyss (Yugioh); via Skill Drain