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This is a topic that I have been considering since Acnologia's resistance and ability to consume magic were revealed in the Manga. It is no news to anyone that this ability made him virtually invincible in his verse, but considering the power itself and its loose definition; it seems likely to be greatly wanked or severely nerfed and treated constantly as an NLF making it virtually worthless in debates, so essentially the whole point of this thread is to establish concrete limitations on this ability and where exactly it has jurisdiction.
Before I make any points of how far I believe his resistances should go I think it is worth noting that Acnologia is implied to have the highest magical resistance in-verse and as such I believe it is worth scaling him to other characters with any notable resistances.
To start off with the obvious; Acnologia has clear resistances against most conventional magical attacks including beams of magical energy as shown [here] and elemental attacks as shown in his battle with the dragon slayers when he negated Laxus lightning [here]. This is clear and honestly need not be reiterated.
Acnologia also shows resistance to the more unconventional forms of magic too- and it's at this point that things become rather murky.
• Mind hax: this shows itself on 2 separate occasions the first is during the eclipse arc when future Rogue notes that his magic designed to control dragons [had no effect] on Acnologia. He displays it once again during his bout with the dragon slayers where Cobra- a character who specialises in reading minds- notes that [he can't here Acnologia's thoughts]. This should give Acnologia some degree of protection against mind based attacks and precog dependant on reading the opponents thoughts.
• Durability negation + Spatial manipulation: this is scaled from August the character with possibly the second best resistance to most magical attacks in-verse and from Acnologia's previous encounter with Gildarts FT's poster boy for durability negation. August has shown no problem in negating Gildarts crash magic as seen [here] [and] [here] couple this with the fact that Gildarts previous meeting with Acnologia left him half dead and missing several body parts this isn't above the realm of possibility. August also negates [Fairy] [Glitter] a purifying spell that apparently negates durability. In regards to the spatial manipulation Minerva a character who specialises in spatial manipulation notes that [her attacks do nothing] and we even see what appears to be Acnologia consuming her magic. This should allow Acnologia some defence to certain "Holy" techniques, standard durability negation and spatial manipulation.
• Time hax: This is arguably Acnologia's most famous feat; [consuming] the Ravines of time. For clarification the ROT is defined [here]; the simplest definition I can give you is it appears to be a massive concentration of time magic as a result of constant time travel shenanigans in FT. This should afford Acnologia some measure of defence against time based techniques, like time stop, an ability Natsu has shown he can [resist], so it should logically scale to him.
• Soul Manipulation: Natsu, Lucy and Happy (of all ppl) have shown [here] to be able to resist their souls being sucked out of their body for a brief period of time.
• Existence erasure: There are 2 instances wherein existence erasure is used in FT and both times the attacks were negated. The first instance was it used by Brain here and was [resisted] by Natsu. The second instance it was used by Mard Geer where he describes it [here] and it was [negated] by Gray. It should be noted that these 2 feats were done by Natsu and Gray while they were significantly weaker than they are presently. Acnologia himself also has a feat of surviving an attack that should have erased him, I'm of the impression that this should scale to Acnologia due to his obvious superiority in the resistance department.
In summary, Acnologia should have resistances to most standard magical attacks, time, spatial, soul and mind manipulation along with durability negation and existence erasure. Please let me know your thoughts on this and if there are any disagreements please make them clear thank you.
P.S how should we classify [this], dude literally punched through space time, I'm of the impression it classifies as durability negation but I'm no expert on such matters.
P.P.S It's past 3 in the morning, I have an exam in 2 weeks and I've been studying all day I need to sleep and likely won't reply to this in the next 8 hours or so. Pls forgive any errors and be patient if you have any enquiries.
Before I make any points of how far I believe his resistances should go I think it is worth noting that Acnologia is implied to have the highest magical resistance in-verse and as such I believe it is worth scaling him to other characters with any notable resistances.
To start off with the obvious; Acnologia has clear resistances against most conventional magical attacks including beams of magical energy as shown [here] and elemental attacks as shown in his battle with the dragon slayers when he negated Laxus lightning [here]. This is clear and honestly need not be reiterated.
Acnologia also shows resistance to the more unconventional forms of magic too- and it's at this point that things become rather murky.
• Mind hax: this shows itself on 2 separate occasions the first is during the eclipse arc when future Rogue notes that his magic designed to control dragons [had no effect] on Acnologia. He displays it once again during his bout with the dragon slayers where Cobra- a character who specialises in reading minds- notes that [he can't here Acnologia's thoughts]. This should give Acnologia some degree of protection against mind based attacks and precog dependant on reading the opponents thoughts.
• Durability negation + Spatial manipulation: this is scaled from August the character with possibly the second best resistance to most magical attacks in-verse and from Acnologia's previous encounter with Gildarts FT's poster boy for durability negation. August has shown no problem in negating Gildarts crash magic as seen [here] [and] [here] couple this with the fact that Gildarts previous meeting with Acnologia left him half dead and missing several body parts this isn't above the realm of possibility. August also negates [Fairy] [Glitter] a purifying spell that apparently negates durability. In regards to the spatial manipulation Minerva a character who specialises in spatial manipulation notes that [her attacks do nothing] and we even see what appears to be Acnologia consuming her magic. This should allow Acnologia some defence to certain "Holy" techniques, standard durability negation and spatial manipulation.
• Time hax: This is arguably Acnologia's most famous feat; [consuming] the Ravines of time. For clarification the ROT is defined [here]; the simplest definition I can give you is it appears to be a massive concentration of time magic as a result of constant time travel shenanigans in FT. This should afford Acnologia some measure of defence against time based techniques, like time stop, an ability Natsu has shown he can [resist], so it should logically scale to him.
• Soul Manipulation: Natsu, Lucy and Happy (of all ppl) have shown [here] to be able to resist their souls being sucked out of their body for a brief period of time.
• Existence erasure: There are 2 instances wherein existence erasure is used in FT and both times the attacks were negated. The first instance was it used by Brain here and was [resisted] by Natsu. The second instance it was used by Mard Geer where he describes it [here] and it was [negated] by Gray. It should be noted that these 2 feats were done by Natsu and Gray while they were significantly weaker than they are presently. Acnologia himself also has a feat of surviving an attack that should have erased him, I'm of the impression that this should scale to Acnologia due to his obvious superiority in the resistance department.
In summary, Acnologia should have resistances to most standard magical attacks, time, spatial, soul and mind manipulation along with durability negation and existence erasure. Please let me know your thoughts on this and if there are any disagreements please make them clear thank you.
P.S how should we classify [this], dude literally punched through space time, I'm of the impression it classifies as durability negation but I'm no expert on such matters.
P.P.S It's past 3 in the morning, I have an exam in 2 weeks and I've been studying all day I need to sleep and likely won't reply to this in the next 8 hours or so. Pls forgive any errors and be patient if you have any enquiries.
erhaps but I'm confused as to why Natsu and the other's were fine. Natsu was obviously gonna be erased from Existence if Gray didn't step in during the Mard fight so i don't know why him and the other's aren't being erased here.
