The ability to avoid linear attacks with incredible ease.
Also Called
- Evasive Action
- Mantra/Obsservation/Kenbunshoku Haki (One Piece)
Capabilities
The user can avoid linear attacks such as bullets and lasers by simply quickly positioning themselves away from the path of the attack before it is fired. This can allow the user to avoid attacks that travel much faster than the user themselves.
Techniques
- Dodge Roll - Various tuck and roll maneuvers.
- Flowmotion
- Sliding Dash
Associations
- Accelerated Perception
- Attack Prediction
- Body Language Analysis
- Danger Intuition
- Enhanced Agility
- Enhanced Defense
- Enhanced Reflexes
- Enhanced Speed
- Evasion
- Evasion Calling
Limitations
- May not work on unpredictable attacks that do not travel in a straight path.
- May not be able to avoid an Absolute Attack.
- Cannot dodge an Omnipresent Attack.
Known Users
Comics/Cartoons
- Aang (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
- Terry McGinnis (Batman Beyond)
- XLR8 (Ben 10)
- Batman (DC Comics)
- Cassandra Kain (DC Comics)
- Deathstroke (DC Comics)
- Risk (DC Comics)
- Captain America/Steve Rogers (Marvel Comics)
- Daken (Marvel Comics)
- Daredevil (Marvel Comics)
- Nightcrawler (Marvel Comics)
- Shatterstar (Marvel Comics)
- Spider-Girl (Marvel Comics)
- Spider-Man (Marvel Comics)
- Spider-Woman (Marvel Comics)
- Winter Soldier/Bucky Barnes (Marvel Comics)
- Wolverine (Marvel Comics)
- Jack (Samurai Jack)
- Ninja Turtles (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
- Lastikman (Lastikman)
- Vampires/Originals/Hybrids (The Vampire Diaries/The Originals)
- Dracula (The Batman vs. Dracula)
Anime/Manga
- Train Heartnet (Black Cat)
- Sōsuke Aizen (Bleach)
- Spinzaku (Code Geass)
- Suzaku Kururugi (Code Geass)
- Goku (Dragon Ball)
- Ultra Instinct Goku (Dragon Ball Super)
- Sloth (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)
- King Bradley (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)
- Rushuna Tendo (Grenadier)
- A (Naruto)
- Sakura Haruno (Naruto)
- Sharingan users (Naruto)
- Third Raikage (Naruto)
- Kenbunshoku Haki users (One Piece)
- Kami-e users (One Piece)
- Dufort (Zatch Bell!)
- Joukkyu (Aiki)
- Vash the Stampede (Trigun)
- Kenshin Himura (Rurouni Kenshin)
- Kotaro Nanbara (Hand Maid May)
- Ichi-kun Ichinohei (Ninja High School)
- Various Gundam characters (Mobile Suit Gundam franchise)
Live Television/Movies
- Indiana Jones (Indiana Jones)
- Jedi (Star Wars)
- Agents (The Matrix)
- Neo (The Matrix)
- Buffy Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
- Faith Lehane (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
- Angel (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
- Spike (Buffy the Vampire Slater)
- Connor (Angel)
- Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street)
- Drake (Blade: Trinity)
- Xenomorphs (Aliens vs. Predator)
- Augments (Star Trek)
- Terminators (Terminator)
- Dillon (Power Rangers RPM)
- X5-Series (Dark Angel)
- Ian Archer (Tower Prep)
- Max Guevara (Dark Angel)
- Cameron Hicks (Alphas)
Video Games
- Zack Fair (Compilation of Final Fantasy VII)
- Cole MacGrath (inFamous)
- Nix (inFamous 2)
- Lucy Kuo (inFamous 2)
- Big Boss (Metal Gear)
- Grey Fox (Metal Gear)
- Solid Snake (Metal Gear)
- Vamp (Metal Gear Solid)
- Samus Aran (Metroid)
- Liu Kang (Mortal Kombat)
- Pokémon with increased evasiveness (Pokémon)
- Pokémon with the Sand Veil/Snow Cloak/Tangled Feet abilities (Pokémon)
- Pokémon holding Bright Powder or Lax Incense (Pokémon)
- Pokémon who can learn Double Team or Minimize (Pokémon)
- Pokémon with the "Contrary" or "Moody" abilities (Pokémon)
- Pokémon affected by "Acupressure" (Pokémon)
- Albert Wesker (Resident Evil franchise)
- Infinite (Sonic Forces)
- Sonic the Hedgehog (Sonic the Hedgehog)
- Lara Croft (Tomb Raider)
- Alex Mercer (Prototype)
- Asura (Asura's Wrath)
- Sans (Undertale)
- Frisk (Undertale)
- Chara (Undertale); inside Frisk's body
- Rise Kujikawa (Persona 4)
- Link (The Legend of Zelda)
- John Marston (Red Dead)
- Max Payne (Max Payne)
- Faith (Mirror's Edge)
- Rahkshi of Dodge (Bionicle)
- Makuta (Bionicle)
Others
- Alek Filipov (Ripley's Bureau of Investigation)
- Lux Acadia (Undefeated Bahamut Chronicle)
- Street Samurai (Shadowrun)
- Pyrrha Nikos (RWBY)