Resistance Manipulation

Characters with the Turn Element in Chrono Cross can change one's innate element turning their resistances into weaknesses and vice versa.

Background

Resistance Manipulation is the ability to manipulate resistances. As a person's resistance is an ability to reduce the or completely suppress effectiveness of an ability, a user of this power can completely manipulate the persons resistances to weaken, strengthen, or completely negate it. In some cases, the user could even completely manipulate an immunity, for example, a character with a powerful enough potency can affect someone with Soul Manipulation even if the person has no soul.

Capabilities

• Resistance Granting: The typical ability of granting a resistance to someone who previously did not have one. This is normally done in fiction through a character gaining access to a legendary item, such as Link gaining the Master Sword, granting him a resistance to magic.

• Resistance Negation: This ability gets rid of the opponent's crutch of being resistant to certain abilities. For example, say the opponent is resistant to existence erasure. This ability would make said resistance naught and allows the attacker to use another move to erase the opponent from existence. These often stack and the highest level can completely negate immunities.

• Resistance Modification: This ability modifies one's resistance and turns it into a weakness or vice versa. For example, if one has a natural innate resistance to soul manipulation one could modify it to make soul manipulation of weakness of theirs, in most cases instantly one-shotting the opponent, or in more potent cases, killing the opponent at the spot as them having a soul in itself is a massive weakness for them. As said, this can be used for vice versa and make someone naturally weak to soul manipulation gain a resistance to it.

Users

• Chara (Undertale)
• Majora (The Legend of Zelda)
• Caliborn (Homestuck)