The ability to bypass any kind of defenses. Sub-power of Absolute Attack and Defense Manipulation.
Also Called
- Armor Piercing
- Defense Piercing
Capabilities
The user is able to bypass an opponent's defenses and do equal damage no matter how strong, durable, magically-enhanced or seemingly impenetrable the defense is.
Applications
Variations
Associations
Limitations
- May not work against on Absolute Defense.
- Some targets may be able to withstand more damage anyway, such as if the target has Regenerative Healing Factor or if it is very large.
- If the target is immune to the attribute of the attack (such as Intangibility or Spatial-Temporal Lock) instead of defense-based resistance, then it is useless.
- Weak against Defense Recovery.
Known Users
Manga/Anime
- Baraggan Louisenbairn (Bleach)
- Moe Shishigawara (Bleach)
- Bambietta Basterbine (Bleach)
- Lille Barro (Bleach)
- Ibuki (Chaos Dragon)
- Yajirobe (Dragon Ball)
- Nappa (Dragon Ball Z)
- Piccolo (Dragon Ball series)
- Laxus Dreyar (Fairy Tail); via Mercury Fulminate: Thunder God
- Kenshiro (Fist of the North Star)
- Oboro (Gintama)
- Utsuro (Gintama)
- InuYasha (InuYasha); via Meido Zangetsuha
- Anubis (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part III Stardust Crusaders)
- Gaara (Naruto)
- Sasuke Uchiha (Naruto)
- Dust Release Shinobi (Naruto)
- Might Guy (Naruto)
- Aruka Schild (Needless)
- Users of Busoshoku Haki (One Piece)
- Marshal D. Teach/Blackbeard (One Piece)
- Rob Lucci (One Piece)
- Bartholomew Kuma (One Piece)
- Trafalgar D. Water Law (One Piece)
- Edward Newgate/Whitebeard (One Piece)
- Sanji (One Piece)
- Sakazuki/Akainu (One Piece)
- Hasshoken Practitioners (One Piece)
- Don Chinjao
- Sai
- Boo
- Charlotte Linlin/Big Mom (One Piece)
- Futae no Kiwami Practitioners (Rurouni Kenshin)
- Levi Kazama (Trinity Seven)
- Byakko (Yu Yu Hakusho)
Live Television
- Bad Wolf (Doctor Who)
Video Games
- Stun Thrust (Alter Echo)
- Batman (Batman: Arkham); via Beat Down
- Nortrom (DOTA)
- Cloud (Final Fantasy)
- Kain (Legacy of Kain); via Fury
- Mega Man X (Mega Man X8)
- Raiden (Metal Gear)
- Mario (Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door); via Defense-piercing attacks
- Pokémon capable of using Chip Away, Feint, Phantom Force or Shadow Force (Pokémon)
- Pokémon with the Ability Infiltrator, Mold Breaker, Teravolt or Turboblaze (Pokémon)
- Hoopa (Pokémon); via Hyperspace Hole and Hyperspace Fury
- Metal Sonic (Sonic the Hedgehog)
- Culex (Super Mario RPG)
Movies
- Voldemort (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2)
- Death Eaters (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2)
Web Animation
- Adam Taurus (RWBY)
Known Weapons
- Cutter of Creation: Extase (Akame Ga Kill!)
- Shock Gloves (Batman: Arkham Origins)
- Orichalcum bullet (Black Cat)
- Shieldbreaker (Book of Swords)
- Chaos Claws (Castlevania: Lords of Shadow)
- Light Arrow (The Legend of Zelda)
- Pile Bunker (Lost Planet)
- Judas Bullet (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
- Lance of Longinus (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
- True Dragon Sword (Ninja Gaiden)
- Blade of the Archfiend (Ninja Gaiden)
- Impact Dial (One Piece)
- Reject Dial (One Piece)
- Houtengageki (TYPE-MOON)
- Gáe Dearg (TYPE-MOON)
Gallery
Anime/Manga
Sheele (Akame Ga Kill!) wielding Cutter of Creation: Extase, which is sharp enough to cut through any physical defense, even the impenetrable armor, Incursio.
Train Heartnet (Black Cat) firing an Orichalcum bullet out of Hades, which is capable of destroying any material on Earth.
Bambietta Basterbine (Bleach) transforms anything her The Explode power touches into bombs, bypassing any shields and physical defenses.
Baraggan Louisenbairn's (Bleach) time acceleration powers can disintegrate anything from powerful Kido barriers to his Resurrección enhanced Hierro.
Moe Shishigawara (Bleach)
Lille Barro's (Bleach) The X-Axis does not use bullets, but simply pierces everything between the muzzle of his rifle and the target, with no barriers in between capable of blocking it.
Yajirobe's (Dragon Ball) Ka-Blam Slicer is a powerful sword beam that penetrates the opponent's defenses.
Piccolo (Dragon Ball Z) piercing through Babidi's magical barrier.
Nappa (Dragon Ball Z) using his Break Cannon, a powerful mouth energy beam that pierces through the foe's defenses.
Laxus Dreyar (Fairy Tail) uses "Mercury Fulminate: Thunder God" to beat an electrically immune Wahl Icht.
Kenshiro (Fist of the North Star) using Hokuto Jūha Zan to harden Heart's skin, allowing him to bypass Heart's body fatty defenses.
Oboro (Gintama) using Hakkei to strike Gintoki's pressure points, causing a disruption of the meridian flow, thus cannot be blocked.
Utsuro (Gintama) using Hakkei to strike Kagura's pressure points, causing a disruption of the meridian flow, which leads to internal damage.
Inuyasha (Inuyasha) using Meido Tessaiga to rip apart a Shikon no Tama protected Naraku.
The Spear of Shukaku (Naruto) is formed from sharpest minerals compressed together, and can pierce through even the Infinite Armor.
Dust Release techniques (Naruto) cannot be blocked, since it will disintegrate any and all matter that it touches.
Using the hammer to add force to the axe, the Bluntsword: Kabutowari (Naruto) can cut through all defenses.
The Third Raikage's (Naruto) Hell Stab: One Finger Nukite is his strongest spear, and can pierce through even his own body.
Using the Chidori, Sasuke Uchiha (Naruto) was able to pierce clean through Gaara's sand-based defenses and make him bleed.
Sasuke Uchiha (Naruto) can fire chakra arrows through his Susanoo with such piercing force that no physical defense can block it, especially if he imbues it with the black flames that will incinerate anything they pierce.
Sasuke Uchiha (Naruto) infuses lightning chakra into his blade to enhanced it’s cutting power, allowing him to cut down armoured samurais with ease.
Might Guy's (Naruto) Night Guy technique strikes at such intense power that it distorts the space of his immediate vicinity, bypassing defenses.
Aruka Schild (Needless) using Agni Schiwattas to accelerate kinetic movement of molecules, causing combustion that can bypass defense.
Marshal D. Teach/Blackbeard (One Piece) can use his Yami Yami no Mi to nullify any Devil Fruit based defenses from Paramecia to Logia, making them more vulnerable to physical harm.
Usopp (One Piece) using an Impact Dial to create a condensed shock wave that bypassed Luffy's rubbery defense.
The Reject Dial (One Piece) possesses the same ability as the Impact Dial, but with 10 times the output that its defense-penetrating power can cause lethal damage, both ways.
Rob Lucci (One Piece) using Sai Dai Rin: Rokuogan to produce a powerful shock wave that bypassed Luffy's rubber-based defenses.
Bartholomew Kuma (One Piece) using Pad Ho, piercing through every defense and obstacles with high-pressure air blasts.
Edward Newgate/Whitebeard (One Piece) using Kabutowari to enhance his punch with vibrations, shattering defenses and causing tremendous damage.
By coating his pointed head with Busoshoku Haki, Chinjao (One Piece) performed a headbutt powerful enough to split open the immensely hard ice continent.
The Hasshoken style (One Piece) generates shock waves that can shatter defenses, such as shields and armor.
As magma is superior to fire, Sakazuki/Akainu (One Piece) is able to bypass Ace's Logia defense and mortally wound him.
As his body is rubber-based, Monkey D. Luffy (One Piece) is able to bypass Enel's electricity-based Logia defense and injure him.
Users of Busoshoku Haki (One Piece) can use the intangibility defense to touch and strike Logia Devil Fruit eaters.
Trafalgar Law (One Piece) has mastered his spatial slicing powers to the point he can cut through the hardest physical objects and bypass powerful Haki-based defenses.
Roronoa Zoro (One Piece) mastery of Busoushoku Haki allows him to slice through Haki-enhanced defenses.
Sanji (One Piece) Diable Jambe can burn through any defenses, even the iron like defenses of a Tekkai master.
Charlotte Linlin/Big Mom (One Piece) can easily smash the hardest defenses with her punches.
Monkey D. Luffy (One Piece) used Gear Second’s Jet Gatling to smash through Rob Lucci's Tekkai.
Jabberwock (Project ARMS) releasing hypersonic vibrations from his body to shatter and disintegrate his victims' molecules, even the vibration-resistant Successors.
Sanosuke Sagara (Rurouni Kenshin) using Mastery of Two Layers, which uses the first strike to nullify an object's resistance, and the second strike (made within 1/75th of a second) easily destroys it.
Levi Kazama's (Trinity Seven) Shadowless Slash technique has an incorporeal edge, meaning her blade does not exist under any physical laws and allows her to bypass barriers.
Shield Crush!!! (Yu-Gi-Oh!)
Byakko (Yu Yu Hakusho) using Meikō Shōkai-Ha to release a densely oscillating scream that can break molecular bonds, meaning it cannot be blocked, only dodged.
Live Television
Judas Bullets (Marvel Cinematic Universe) are one of the few things able to pierce through Luke Cage's Unbreakable Skin.
Video Games
Batman's Shock Gloves (Batman: Arkham Origins) allow him to pierce through enemy shields and body armor, and cause damage to Venom users even while the drug is active.
Using the Beat Down, Batman (Batman: Arkham) unleashes a rapid flurry of punches to pierce through an enemy's defenses.
Using the Chaos Claws, Gabriel Belmont/Dracula (Castlevania: Lords of Shadow) can break enemy defenses using brute force and heat.
Using the Fury Dark Gift, Kain (Legacy of Kain) deals a single powerful strike that cannot be blocked.
When using Ripper Mode, Raiden's (Metal Gear) attacks are enhanced to the point that he can easily cut through enemy shields and body armor.
Metal Sonic's (Sonic the Hedgehog) V. Maximum Overdrive Attack can reportedly penetrate any substance. However, it shorts him out temporary after usage.
Zelda's (The Legend of Zelda) Light Arrow can pierce through all defense, causing normal targets to be vaporized in a flash of light.
The True Dragon Sword (Ninja Gaiden) forged from a dragon's fangs and empowered by a dragon's soul is immensely sharp, able to cut through armoured tanks and jets of steel and slice down the immortal bodies of Evil Deities such as Vigoor Emperor and Vazdah.
The Blade of the Archfiend (Ninja Gaiden) was forged from Vazdah's demonic magic infused meteorite, making it powerful enough to rip through the immortal body of the gigantic Goddess which has complete immunity to modern firearms and artillery.
Others
Adam Taurus (RWBY) easily pierces Yang's Aura-based defenses and severs her right arm.