History Main / ArmorOfInvincibility

* In ''EightBitTheater'', obtaining the Armor Of Invincibility was Fighter's original goal. He did obtain the ''Armoire'' of Invincibility, which proved equally invincible but significantly less useful.

* ''FinalFantasyIV'', the Adamant Armor has 100 defense, resists almost all status ailments and elemental damage, and gives a big boosts to stats. Finding it requires you to find the Pink Puff randomly in a single room in the final dungeon, win the Pink Tail from it which drops very rarely (combined with the puff's rarity you have less than a 1/10000 chance to get it) and then trade it for the armor.

* ''FinalFantasyVI'' has the Paladin Shield, which has 59 defense and magic defense, boosts evade and magic evade by 40%, and nullifies or absorbs all elemental damage. Not only that, but it is also the only item in the game aside from the Ragnarok magicite that teaches you the [[GameBreaker Ultima]] spell. To get it though you need to fight 256 battles equipped with the Cursed Shield, which inflicts ''all'' status ailments on the wearer.

* ''FinalFantasyVII'' gives us the Ziedrich, which has 100 defense, halves all elemental and physical damage, boosts your stats and can only be stolen from three bosses (well, technically, the [[GoldfishPoopGang same boss]] three different times), one of which can be missed entirely. The catch is that it has no materia slots, making it of somewhat dubious value.

* ''FinalFantasyIX'' has the Tin Armor, which can only be acquired by defeating a BonusBoss and having him synthesize it from two items, one of which is incredibly common and the other of which can only be acquired by doing a lengthy sidequest.
* The Armor of Invincibility in ''FinalFantasyXII'' is exclusive to the Japanese-exclusive re-release, the Gendarme. It boosts evade and magic evade by 90 and resists all forms of elemental damage.

* The "Shinning Armor" of CastlevaniaCircleOfTheMoon far surpasses all other armor in the game regarding defense, and boosts all your stats to boot. To get it, you have to beat [[BonusDungeon The Arena]], a gauntlet filled to the brim with DemonicSpiders that you cannot use magic in.

* {{Pokemon}} has the infamous "Curselax" set in it's Gameboy Colour and Gameboy Advance releases, which lowers your speed (which Snorlax doesn't care about in the first place) tremendously, but improves Snorlax's mediocre defense, which only aids his phenomenal special defense. It doesn't hurt that it raises it's attack too, making it something of a {{gamebreaker}} in those generations.

* Star Ocean 2 has the Bloody Armor, which has seemingly low stats and constantly drains your health at an astounding rate, but wearing it makes you immune to any and all damage and keeping up with the constant HP drain isn't that much of an issue with an assigned healer.

I'm sorry, did you just say the armor is made of diamonds or [[MadeOfWin WIN]]!?

** Many moves raise defenses, including Cosmic Power, Quiver Dance and Bulk Up to name a few. The stand-out for pure defense though is Cotton Guard, which grants +3 stages to defense, the only move to give a +3 stage boost to ''anything''. Note that the most any stat can be boosted is +6. Do the math.

* The "Shinning Armor" of CastlevaniaCircleOfTheMoon far surpasses all other armor in the game regarding defense, and boosts all your stats to boot. To get it, you have to beat [[The Arena BonusDungeon]], a gauntlet filled to the brim with DemonicSpiders that you cannot use magic in.

* ''SuperMarioRPG'' has the Lazy Shell. It ''does'' do terrible things to all the non-defensive stats, but that's not really a problem if you give it to Peach, who wasn't going to do anything but heal, anyway.

* Star Ocean 2 had a set in the Bloody Armor, which drained health from the wearer. It wasn't a problem as long as your healers could keep up with the drain.
* The Fusion Helmet in ShadowComplex. You're required to scour the map for all the passkeys, but if you get it, you take little damage from most attacks. Better yet, if you are completely still or moving VERY slowly, you gain a forcefield, making you pretty much completely immune to gunfire.

* ''FinalFantasyVI'' has the Paladin Shield, which has 59 defense and magic defense, boosts evade and magic evade by 40%, and nullifies or absorbs all elemental damage. To get it though you need to fight 256 battles equipped with the Cursed Shield, which inflicts ''all'' status ailments on the wearer.

The UltimateBlacksmith sends you out to hunt monsters because he wants to forge you something good but needs rare materials [[RandomlyDrops randomly dropped]] from enemies located around the world. And when you bring them back he forges you...a shield? What about the InfinityPlusOneSword, [[ILikeSwords you wanted a sword]]! In the VeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon, you just beat ThatOneBoss and open the chest behind it to find...a suit of armor, what the hell? Well you put so much work into finding it, may as well equip it. So you go into the menu and highlight this new item and...oh. ''Oh!''

* ''FinalFantasyVII'' gives us the Ziedrich, which has 100 defense, halves all elemental and physical damage, boosts your stats and can only be stolen from three bosses, one of which can be missed entirely. The catch is that it has no materia slots, making it of somewhat dubious value.

* To obtain this was [[EightBitTheater Fighter's]] original goal.

* {{Pokemon}} has the infamous "Curselax" set in it's Gameboy Colour and Gameboy Advance releases, which lowers your speed tremendously, but improves Snorlax's mediocre defense, which only aids his phenomenal special defense. It doesn't hurt that it raises it's attack too, making it something of a {{gamebreaker}}

** [spoiler:[[BookEnds Also his final goal as the comic ends.]]]]

* ''Pokemon'' has the infamous "Curselax" set in it's Gameboy Colour and Gameboy Advance releases, which lowers your speed tremendously, but improves Snorlax's mediocre defense, which only aids his phenomenal special defense. It doesn't hurt that it raises it's attack too, making it something of a ''gamebreaker''