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Were working on that actually, it should be up before the exams start.


Yes. For example. Person A has no descriptive modifiers of any kind, he then uses a C rank simple hard physical formless strike. Person B also has no descriptive ranks. He would need to be able to use either a ninjutsu of D (ninjutsu are treated as one rank higher in terms of conflict with simple taijutsu and bukijutsu) to evade it, a C rank simple soft physical formless to DODGE the strike, or use a C rank taijutsu or bukijutsu technique from a style. If person B had none of those then the strike would connect because he would have no way to block or dodge the move.

Sorry for the wait. I thought someone had answered this D:

The counterbalancing system, as it's written, only applies to Ninjutsu:

"For relationships between chakra natures, there is a principle known as counterbalancing (相殺, Sōsai). This principle states that two techniques of the same nature would cancel each other out if the same amount of chakra was put into them. For example, in Kakashi's fight with Kakuzu, he was able to cancel Kakuzu's Lightning Release: False Darkness by deflecting it with his own technique, the Lightning Cutter. However, if one of the techniques had more chakra put into it, it would overcome the other technique. Not only that, but the stronger technique would absorb the weaker one, and the user of the weaker technique would receive more damage than the original amount, as he will have added to the technique. For example, in Sasuke's fight with Itachi, they both use the Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique against each other, and Sasuke's technique begins to overwhelm Itachi's as he activates his Cursed Seal of Heaven. Itachi would have been hit by both his own technique as well as Sasuke's. Itachi responds to this by using Amaterasu, the highest level Fire Release technique [ i.e. Blaze Release ], which absorbs all the fire previously created by the two techniques, growing into a large mass of black flames."

Otherwise, you could certainly use a parry or block by countering it with another technique. If you use the same rank technique, they cancel each other out. If you use a weaker technique than them, their attack would still overpower you but the damage would be lessened. Say you use a B-rank offensive technique to block an A-rank attack. You would essentially successfully reduce the impact and take a B-rank hit instead of an A-rank (A = 80 stamina, B = 40 stamina, 80 - 40 = 40).

You could, theoretically, use a second activation to block the rest of the damage, but that would be 2 of 3 activations toward one attack.

The same goes vise versa. If you use an offensive attack that's higher than theirs, you would overpower their attack, and they would have to defend against any incoming damage from it.

Now keep in mind that would be simple attack vs simple attack. Complex techniques (half chakra, half stamina) will overpower a simple technique of the same rank, and spiritual (pure chakra) act as one rank higher verses a simple technique. So in order to block an A-rank spiritual attack (including ninjutsu, unless you have Berserker or Mystic Hero), you'd need an S-rank simple.

There are a lot of defensive techniques that allow you to defend against attacks of higher rank than they are, so keep an eye out for those.

Yep, right here: https://discord.gg/PHHXpNn

Just set it up, so you'd be one of the first to join.

How come we don't just get our headbands WHEN we graduate the academy? What is this whole deal about receiving it directly from the Kage? It seems illogical, and impractical, to make the oh so very busy leader of the village have to individually interact with every single one of their would-be shinobi before they've even done anything noteworthy to earn an audience with them. It makes much, much more sense for them to just have to read over a paper listing the people who graduated, detailing their "grades" and maybe even mentioning their merits/qualities earned thus far, signing it and moving on with their day.

I admit that I am partially mentioning this since it's going on 2.5 days waiting for a headband when I could have been actively participating in the rp instead. However, I think the core problem is more worth mentioning than my village's leader being too busy to log into Gaia since the 25th (yes, I checked). I'm sorry guys, but I'm going to have to bend the rules a bit and just say that I already got my headband. Fault me if you want, but I just want to rp. If I felt like waiting around doing nothing for several days then I wouldn't have even bothered joining the guild. Please excuse my frustration, expressed as impatience.