Type: Supplementary
Rank: S
Range: N/A
Chakra Cost: 50 ( +10 to infused technique )
Damage: N/A
Description: Piercing Ghost is a variant of the Hungry Ghost, a spiritual parasite created through the user’s Yin Release chakra adapt to Damage Shaving properties. When using a jutsu with a damage shaving property, the user will form the ram hand seal to seal the Piercing Ghost within their technique. Sealing the Piercing Ghost inside one’s technique happens within the same timeframe as their damage-shaving technique. When the user’s technique interacts with another technique, the parasitic Yin Chakra will eat away at the chakra within the technique, decreasing it's efficiency by increasing the damage-shaving buff of the host technique by -20 damage against the opposing technique. Once the piercing ghost consumes foreign chakra it is released attaches itself to the source of the chakra (the opponent), reflecting the same amount of damage onto the opponent as it was shaved off in the interaction, graded as spiritual damage.
Once the Piercing Ghost is released, the tether won't be immediate nor unblockable, and will be affected by damage shaving abilities inherent to the character, such as damage shaving specialities. Other means to counter the reflected damage include techniques used, prior, simultaneously or in the instant that follows the clash that deployed the Piercing Ghost, namely Anutu, Yang, Yin or Senjutsu based full-body surges or barriers with more than 50 chakra worth of power ( Yang requires 50 or more, whereas Anutu require 40 or more, being elementally stronger ). This will behave like a clashing interaction, whereas the reflected damage worth x damage points will interact with the attempted damage of the protecting technique based on the damage interaction rules, weakening a minimum of -20 damage worth of power ( -10 damage minimum for Yang techniques ), which means 1 rank lost in efficiency for the protecting technique after overpowering the reflected damage ( Less for Yang techniques, and Anutu, which can ignore it altogether and continue unimpeded ). ( Ex: Piercing Ghost worth 80 damage is akin to an S rank technique, vs an S rank Yin surge worth 80 damage. It lowers the Yin surge which shoots out of the target body weakened -30 damage as per the technique interaction rules, but the target takes no reflective damage to his health. If the Yin S rank technique was worth 120 damage or more, it would be weakened -20, as per the Piercing Ghost properties, but only -10 for a Yang protective surge, the target would have no health drop to their HP. If the Piercing Ghost damage is worth 100, and the protective technique is worth 80, then the piercing damage would be lowered, partially blocked by the protective technique, as per the technique interaction rules, and would deal 100 - 20 = 80 damage to the target HP. ). The reflected damage is also split between any clones of the user currently in place, such as Shadow Clones or other Elemental Clones, YY creations or Limbo Clones, allowing the target to dampen the damage with a clone technique used previously, simultaneously or after the clash ( Split Damage means a Piercing Ghost carrying a reflection worth 60 damage will deal 30 damage to the target and 30 damage to the one clone he activates, for example, and each entity can be protected as described before ). Unlike Hungry Ghost, the effects of the Piercing Ghost aren't turn-based, and are felt only with the first technique that it interacted with, working technique by technique.
Note: Reflected Damage will only be felt at the end of the turn, if left unblocked.
Note: Although Piercing Ghost boosts the damage debuff of a technique, and this increases one of two boosts applied to the technique, it will also revoke it's damage dealing properties, changing an Offensive technique into a Supplementary. This will also nullify any damage boosting buffs the technique has, though the user can add one additional Damage Shaving or Chakra/Rank/Efficiency buff to complete the pair, if capable.
Note: In case the host technique overpowers the preyed technique, the effects of the boosted damage shaving buff will not be felt, and the host technique will carry on with the normal damage shaving buff it had before the Piercing Technique. Thus, in order to successfully reflect the damage according to the damage debuff, the host technique needs to be capable of neutralizing or overpowering the preyed technique, adding another difficulty to the usage of the technique.
Note: Can only be used 6 times per battle and cannot be used on the same target more than thrice.
Note: Surges or Barriers of Anutu, Yang, Yin-Yang or Natural Energy can break or prevent the tethering of the Piercing Ghost, preventing the user from performing them throughout the duration of this technique. Thus, techniques imbued with any of these natures can't have their damage reflected.
Note: Piercing Ghost can only be used on S-rank techniques and below.
