Can holding back an attack work as LS?

[Arceus0x]

I heard that blocking an attack is not viable as LS.

But does holding back an attack or pushing against one count?

In my case I've a guy who blocked the attack of a giant metal robot and wad able to hold the giant fist back in a pushing contest (obviously not a literal contest). Does that mean that i can calc the arm of the robot and calc LS or not?

Technically he was physically pushing against the giant arm and held it back even after the punch landed and the robot kept pushing.
Is this viable?

 

[TheGreatJedi13]

Depends. but yours seems to fit as ls feat

 

[Planck69]

He's holding his own against the giant robot's own lifting strength being applied to push him so he'd scale to the robot. Generally though, unless it's a feat of a similar nature to this one (which is really just a power and lifting strength feat in one) then not really.

 

[KLOL506]

Like Planck said, it depends.

Suppose, Character A punches Character B, with Character A having a lifting strength feat of Class 100 for hurling M1 Abrams tanks. And Character B stops that punch and holds it back for a while, resisting against Character A's fist's pushing force. Then it should be fine to scale to LS of Character A.

Or if Character A is a massive sized character with a big-ass arm+fist and Character B, a human-sized character, stops the punch with their bare hands and tries wrestling against it (Like applying a fist to an object without punching it and slowly pushing it forwards and overcoming the object's resistive pushing power), you could even go the extra mile and do F=ma on the large sized character's arm if it's big enough.

I think your case may fall on the latter side.

 

[Arceus0x]

Like Planck said, it depends.

Suppose, Character A punches Character B, with Character A having a lifting strength feat of Class 100 for hurling M1 Abrams tanks. And Character B stops that punch and holds it back for a while, resisting against Character A's fist's pushing force. Then it should be fine to scale to LS of Character A.

Or if Character A is a massive sized character with a big-ass arm+fist and Character B, a human-sized character, stops the punch with their bare hands and tries wrestling against it (Like applying a fist to an object without punching it and slowly pushing it forwards and overcoming the object's resistive pushing power), you could even go the extra mile and do F=ma on the large sized character's arm if it's big enough.

I think your case may fall on the latter side.

yeah he basically gets punched, blocks it and then pushes against the fist, resisting its pushing force

 

[KLOL506]

yeah he basically gets punched, blocks it and then pushes against the fist, resisting its pushing force

Yeah then it's fine