Is this Causality Manipulation?

[The_real_cal_howard]

I have an active power, and I use it. The effects of the move is that there's a 50/50 chance that when the opponent attacks me, even if it kills me, all damage from that move is undone and the opponent takes a set amount of damage, though other effects (like if it poisoned me) stay.

I...have no idea what power that is, and causality manipulation is the closest I could think of. Maybe attack reflection?

 

[Saikou_The_Lewd_King]

Bruh not everything with a cause and effect is Causality Manipulation. A punch has a cause and an effect.

I guess, some form of healing? It's not Attack Reflection since the damage is set.

 

[The_real_cal_howard]

The "even if it kills you" part is what I'm curious about.

 

[The_real_cal_howard]

Bump

 

[ProspectX]

Sounds like Probability manipulation, but hey is this pokemon or?

 

[The_real_cal_howard]

Some ability of Mewtwo's, yes.

 

[ProspectX]

...a odd mix between life/death manipulation and probability manipulation, is mewtwo the only figure in this game series with said ability?.

(nullifying the probability of death, 50% chance, and returning the damage)

 

[The_real_cal_howard]

Yeah. This is a Mewtwo specific move (or, I'm not willing to look through the hundreds of thousands of other cards to see who else would fit the bill)

 

[ProspectX]

True, i mean if anything the progenitor of him (Mew) would likely have said ability.

 

[The_real_cal_howard]

Unfortunately, that's a one way street, as Mewtwo is Mew plus. Emphasis on the plus. You can give Mewtwo stuff from Mew (minus the shapeshifting and Genesis Supernova), but you can't give Mew stuff from Mewtwo.

 

[ProspectX]

I can't tell if mewtwo was supposed to be his genetic successor, though since there are like 5 different types i'm not sure which one you're referring to.

 

[The_real_cal_howard]

Mewtwo was created to be a stronger Mew.

 

[ProspectX]

I can see that he is better in hax.

 

[The_real_cal_howard]

Yeah...

 

[ProspectX]

So even "if" it kills the player, you would kinda ignore the damage and return it. It does takes more reference to attack reflection, but not really.

 

[The_real_cal_howard]

Kinda. I wanna get the opinion of a fellow staff member though, as my boi Saik didn't address the part which made the scenario confusing.

 

[Joseph619]

This is exactly what I was talking about, Cal. Powers that don't fit our understanding/categorization

It does seem to have some cause and effect, but not sure if it's actually causality manipulation.

 

[The_real_cal_howard]

Joe is speaking the truth right now.

 

[ProspectX]

Okay, but one last thing to sort out. Mewtwo "dies" and then activates some type of revival, according to a set of probability. It could be re-writing cause and effect, but oh well.

 

[Promestein]

I don't think it's Causality manipulation. It's a weird ability. It's better to just describe it than try to label it, I feel.

 

[The_real_cal_howard]

Aight. Will do.