Resistance/Immunity

## Summary

**Resistance** is the ability to lessen the effectiveness of certain techniques and abilities through whatever means, such as greatly decreasing the potency of Mind Manipulation or nullifying it altogether. In many cases, it can occur through sheer willpower, especially in the case of mental attacks. For any ability, resistance to that ability can be demonstrated, to varying degrees of effectiveness, ranging from slight and mostly inconsequential to extremely high, potentially completely nullifying those abilities. However, like everything else, resistance has to be judged based on feats.

* This can be determined in various means:
	+ In fictional sense, if there are levels to a set of abilities then there is a bit of tiering system (discuss how this effects crossover battles)
	+ In science, if certain materials a person has that describes the tolerance it has, such as heat, cold, pressure, force, energy, etc.

### Examples:

* For **Natural** Heat Resistance, the standard heat would be 400°C-800°C, from average lit fires to forest fire temp.
* For **Natural** Electrocution Resistance, an average bolt of lightning contains up to one billion volts of energy
* For **Natural** Freezing Resistance, the freezing temperature of water is 0°C and the freezing point of blood is -2 to -3°C and the freezing point of the human body is if their body temp is below 37°C (98.6°F).

## Immunity

The highest degree of resistance is outright **Immunity**, preventing use of that ability on any scale from affecting the user at all. However, immunity is not easily gained, as while someone's resistance to a certain kind of attack may be absolute within their verse, it is not necessarily the case against more potent uses of that ability. Outright immunity should nearly *never* be given except in certain cases or explicitly stated to what types such as being immune to Soul Manipulation due to lacking a soul. Also if a case of being immune to all powers should not be carried over to other verses outside their own, even as powers have different origins and natures to them.

* This can be associated with different races based on their physiologies or attributes, giving examples, Robots do not have senses are are immune to sense manipulation, or undead are not affected by soul manipulation for they do not have souls.

## Limitations

As I said before, there would be considered limitations or weaknesses in both resistance and immunity powers for the characters, as they need to be read and described as such, while Resistance is simple in finding the limits, immunities are tricky as they can lead to complications, so the "*Devil is in the Details*", though it should be noted that stats are still a factor despite this.

Examples (Resistance):

* A *City level fire resistant user* can withstand flames of a *mountain level user*, but cannot *resist flames of a country level* user.
* A fire resistant user can withstand heat of 1000**°**C, but cannot resist heat of 1001**°**C.

Examples (Immunity):

* A Person is considered immune to all powers in their "respective" verse, another person not from their verse could still effect them.
* A person immune to all types of magic, another person either using non-magical abilities or not using any magic at all could still hurt them.

## Types of Resistance

There would be at least two types of resist based on limitations such as:

* **Type 1: Threshold:** A user has a max level cap of something the user is resistant to, but when hit with something of greater power and/or above upper limit attribute would then harm the user.
* **Type 2: Integrity:** A user’s resistance is based on how long the user can withstand said attribute without being effected by it over constant, repeated exposure.
* **Type 3: Conditional:** A user’s resistance with this type may border on immunity but only through conditions such as another power of said attribute with a special ability to bypass said resistance, or placing a user outside said conditions to be affected, this could be based on supernatural or magical aspects. (Ex. Dragons and Dragon Slayers from Fairy Tail with the former's scales resisting magical attacks and the later's high end resistance to respective elemental attacks)
* **Type 4:** **Endurance** where individuals have been visually afflicted by whatever they have been harmed by however still possess strength to power through it. (Hashladun Destiny 2 bathed in Fire, light, hydrogen, secrets, words, while harmed beyond reckoning, she managed to move herself out of of restrains and crawled back to her father)
* **Type 5:** **Tolerance** level of how much one can take such as a gas or substance before succumbing either to effects, drawbacks, or even death, as there are cases in real life where sometimes more dosage required for larger entities. (Ex. Sherlock Holmes 2009 as he takes in many difference substances that are highly recommended not to be taken by his friend and doctor)
* **Type 6:** **Recovery** where as there are individuals who can heal from conventional damage, may not be applied to other scenarios, where as this type of resistent healing overcomes various hax based effects like poisoning, life force stealing, etc..Possibly for Anti-Hax. (Armament Haki users from One Piece can resist effects from Devil Fruit Users\_

But like any abilities, there can also be ways around it:

* Reality Warping
* Negation
* Abilities that can overcome certain conditions for the user’s resistance and/or immunity.