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10	Put simply, Damage Reduction (often abbreviated "DR") is an indication of how much physical damage a character sucks up before it actually starts to subtract from their HitPoints.
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12	Though used primarily in RolePlayingGames, DR can be found across many different media. In games, DR typically is the very first thing calculated, right after base damage is assigned, and before any multiplicative or additional damages are added into the equation.
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14	In most {{Tabletop RPG}}s, this usually tops out at numbers less than 10, since even 30 damage in pen-and-paper games is enough to kill most low-to-mid-level, non-fighter characters. Electronic and {{M\|assivelyMultiplayerOnlineRolePlayingGame}}MORPGs on the other hand, can easily have DR hitting double or even triple digits.
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16	Most systems with a DR mechanic are also systems without ScratchDamage, which means the target cannot be hurt at all if the attacker can't overcome the DR.
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18	One very important to note is that, most of the time, DR reduces only '''physical''' damage -- that means that, typically, there are one or more ways to get around a DR-based DamageSponge: ElementalPowers almost always bypass DR, and if Magic Damage is different than Physical Damage, suddenly [[BeamSpam spamming the hell outta Magic Missile]] seems like a really, really good idea. Even if neither exist in the setting, certain weapons or environment hazards can bypass the effect. DR can also manifest in different types, making some enemies very resistant against magic but weak to physical attacks and so on. Attacks that are specifically designed to ignore Damage Reduction tend to be {{Armor Piercing Attack}}s.
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20	The {{Trope Maker\|s}} here is a little hard to place, as many/most TabletopGames miniatures games use some sort of Armor Rating to reduce damage, but the TropeCodifier is without a doubt ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' (third Ed and above), which uses it to a large extent, and is responsible for the tradition of "magic fire beats DR."
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22	Supertrope to ScratchDamageEnemy.
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24	!!Examples:
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29	* Any game with damage soak rolls, such as ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'', [[TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness either]] [[TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness version]] of ''TabletopGame/TheWorldOfDarkness'', and West End Games' D6 system such as the ''TabletopGame/StarWarsD6'' RPG. After establishing the damage of the attack, the thing being attacked rolls to reduce the amount of damage actually taken, in terms of their own innate difficulty to damage. Armour may either provide extra dice or reduce the target number of the roll to reduce the damage, depending on system.
30	** ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' also has a "hardness" trait for armour, meaning that if the raw (pre-soak) damage doesn't reach the threshold designated by the hardness of the armour, no damage at all is rolled. This, however, is a fairly low number, and if the raw damage reaches or surpasses this threshold it isn't taken into account at all, instead you have to soak for any damage reduction.
31	* The Hero System's version of defenses functions a touch differently. A character can have both Defenses and straight Damage Reduction; Defenses outright subtract damage from the roll and can reduce it to zero, while Damage Reduction applies ''after'' Defenses and cuts the damage received by a straight percentage. Damage Reduction is one of the [[GameBreaker "warning sign"]] powers in the book; characters are expected to have fairly limited Damage Reduction, such as having it only apply to certain types of damage, and across-the-board Damage Reduction is mostly the domain of supervillains expected to take on entire teams of heroes singlehandedly or NighInvulnerable extreme-power characters like Superman.
32	* ''TabletopGame/ArkhamHorror'' features a few options for DR. The mobster investigator has it as his special ability. A few items and spells allow for it, including a variation of HyperactiveMetabolism were food provides DR rather then healing.
33	* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' makes extensive use of this trope, particularly in Third Edition.
34	** Damage Reduction is a quality granted by magical effects, or an innate feature of powerful creatures like dragons or outsiders (fiends, angels, etc.). It reduces damage from attacks by a set amount, potentially negating them entirely, unless those attacks meet the condition to negate the creature's Damage Reduction. So a young adult dragon with DR 5/+1 would subtract 5 points of damage from every attack against it unless those attacks were made with a magic weapon of at least +1 quality, a wyrm with DR 20/+3 is going to take an even stronger magic weapon to hurt, while a werewolf with DR 15/silver can only reliably be injured by silvered weapons. In more complicated cases, a creature's Damage Reduction might only be overcome by "aligned" attacks (the result of specific enchantment magic, or attacks from outsiders that [[MadeOfGood embody an aspect of the alignment spectrum]]), aligned attacks ''or'' magic weapons, or magic weapons made of a specific material. Other creatures take reduced damage from certain weapon types, so a treant takes half damage from piercing weapons like spears or arrows, while skeletal foes take half damage from anything ''but'' bludgeoning attacks from warhammers or maces. A rare few enemies also boast a DR of [number]/--, meaning ''nothing'' can negate it. It's important to note that Damage Reduction only applies to ''physical'' damage, zapping foes with magic completely ignores their DR, but see below.
35	** Energy Resistance is essentially Damage Reduction for energy attacks, and reduces incoming fire, cold, acid, electricity or sonic damage by a set amount. Some creatures are outright immune to one or more types of energy damage (so don't waste a ''fireball'' on a fire-breathing red dragon), and others, especially outsiders, are highly resistant to a variety of energy types in addition to being immune to others. This makes NonElemental "force" attacks like ''{{magic missile\|storm}}'' valuable since they get around Energy Resistance (assuming you also overcome the target's ''Spell'' Resistance, if any), but a quirk of 3rd Edition also made sonic damage extremely useful since very few creatures were resistant or immune to it.
36	** Hardness is a variant of Damage Resistance possessed by inanimate objects, which typically have a low Armor Class and are easy to hit, and don't have many overall hit points, but have a ton of Hardness to compensate. It's mainly used to work out how many rounds it takes to [[OpenSaysMe break down a sturdy oak door]], and to discourage {{Dungeon Bypass}}es via tunneling through walls. One of the reasons [[FantasyMetals adamantine]] is valuable is because weapons made from it are very good at ignoring an object's Hardness.
37	** Note that a character's armor does ''not'' usually reduce the damage of incoming attacks, instead their Armor Class, the combined effects of their worn armor, natural armor, Dexterity, and any magical wards, only determines how likely a physical attack is to hit them. The exception is armor made from adamantine, which offers a small but insurmountable bit of Damage Reduction based on how heavy the armor is.
38	** 5th Edition greatly streamlines all this, so creatures with Damage Resistance to something take only half damage from that source, and objects have Damage Thresholds that make them immune to any attack whose damage does not equal or exceed a listed value, but take full damage from anything that meets or exceeds it. The one remaining vestige of 3.5’s damage reduction rules is the Heavy Armor Master feat, which reduces all non-magical bludgeoning, piercing and slashing damage that you take while wearing heavy armor by 3 points.
39	** The Interception fighting style for, well, fighter-type characters lets them reduce the damage taken by a nearby ally once a turn (between 1 and 10 damage, plus their proficiency) by deflecting it with a weapon or shield. Because the rules only specify the ally must be within 5 feet, it can create the surreal situation of the meatshield hiding ''behind'' the SquishyWizard or even being at the center of the clustered party (which makes said meatshield count as being in cover and therefore harder to hit) in order to tank for them. The Protection style works similarly but instead gives a chance for the attack to miss entirely (but does nothing to mitigate damage if the attack hits).
40	* In ''TabletopGame/EclipsePhase'' armor reduces damage by a quantity equal to its armor rating, and each type of armor has two ratings, one for kinetic damage and one for energy damage. But, most weapons also have an Armor Piercing rating that subtracts from the armor's effective rating.
41	* Creator/GamesWorkshop [=RPGs=]:
42	** In ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasyRoleplay'', the damage a creature takes from any successful attack is reduced by both their [[TheSixStats Toughness]] attribute and their armour, barring [[ArmorPiercingAttack special exceptions]]. 1[[superscript:st]] and 2[[superscript:nd]] Editions allow this to [[NoSell reduce the damage to zero]]; 4[[superscript:th]] Edition adds a ScratchDamage rule.
43	** ''TabletopGame/DarkHeresy'', ''TabletopGame/RogueTrader'', and ''TabletopGame/{{Deathwatch}}'' all have this in the form of both Armor and Toughness. Very few attacks ignore this, though many weapons have Armor Penetration (which ignores a certain amount of Armor) and some have the Felling quality (which ignores a certain amount of "Unnatural Toughness").
44	* In ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'', the primary benefit of wearing/installing armor is reducing damage received. DR is also an advantage that can be purchased by characters, races, etc. One to three points of damage reduction seems to be the "realistic" limit for natural DR, possessed by real animals with thick hides/scales or purchasable by players without needing specific GM approval. Previous versions featured the Toughness advantage, a more expensive DR with a two point Cap specifically for human use, with the base advantage restricted to supers or races. DR directly subtracts from damage, so an attack that can't get through causes absolutely nothing normally, but there are also optional rules for blunt force trauma (so a sufficiently strong bullet impact on hard armor can still cause minor injury and a mace can give an armored knight a concussion) and DR doesn't stop you from being physically thrown around by attacks.
45	** Armor piercing attacks generally take the form of a divisor, reducing DR by half or more.
46	** The Damage Resistance advantage also has a host of options to modify it's function, in particular conjunction with Damage Typing. The advantage could be used to simulate anything from thick skin to magical resistance against a given element to an ablative force field that needs recharging.
47	* In ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' there is the Absorb mechanic, which allows you to just prevent a certain amount of damage dealt to a creature that has the ability.
48	* ''TabletopGame/NewHorizon'' has armor... and specific attacks penetrate the armor, as well as attacks that go overboard.
49	* In ''TabletopGame/{{Numenera}}'', all armor works this way.
50	* Most of the above ''D&D'' examples apply in ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' as well, but with an extra wrinkle: some creatures, most often [[ScienceFantasy Numerian robots]], have hardness that combined DR and energy resistance -- excluding specific weaknesses and {{Armor Piercing Attack}}s, ''everything'' does reduced damage.
51	* In Palladium's "Mega-Damage" [=RPGs=] like ''TabletopGame/{{Rifts}}'', ''Franchise/{{Robotech}}'', and ''TabletopGame/{{Splicers}}'', this is pretty much how Mega-Damage works. Normal attacks, which inflict SDC(Structural Damage Capacity)/HP damage, cannot harm MDC materials unless they can inflict around a hundred points of damage or more in a single hit or burst (effectively DR 100/MD). Mega-Damage, however, also works in reverse: a single point of MD is equal to 100 SDC/Hit Points.
52	* The chief purpose of armor in ''TabletopGame/PlanetMercenary'' is to reduce incoming damage by the listed Damage Reduction value.
53	* In ''TabletopGame/PoniesAndParasprites'' damage is reduced in two ways. The first is via use of "Buffer Exhaustion", which allows a character to absorb a certain amount of damage before they are affected by it. The second (such as the Earth Pony's ''Tough as Nails'' ability and Celestia's ''Inescapable Corona of Justice'') simply reduces the amount of incoming damage. These two abilities explicitly stack with one another.
54	* ''TabletopGame/SentinelsOfTheMultiverse'' has a few ways for both heroes and villains to do this. Most of the heroes' damage reduction, is personal, like armor equipment or a power, though some heroes can give someone else damage reduction. Generally, -1 reduction is equipment or a power that can stay out indefinitely without penalty. -2 reduction either only lasts a turn, only affects the next damage taken, or is only applicable to damage of 5 or more. And they can stack. The villains' DR often applies to their whole deck, or a group within their deck. Grand Warlord Voss takes the cake. For every minion he has out, he reduces all damage to himself by 2, making him effectively invincible if there's more than two or three minions in play.
55	* In ''TabletopGame/{{Spycraft}}'', damage reduction is the armor mechanic, with "armor" and "armor penetration" forming a parallel defensive system to the usual d20 armor class stuff.
56	* ''TabletopGame/TunnelsAndTrolls'' (1975) contained the UrExample of this trope in tabletop [=RPGs=], replacing ''D&D''[='=]s (the only other RPG in existence at the time of its release) armor-as-likelihood-to-miss with armor-as-damage-reduction.
57	* In ''TabletopGame/TheWitcherGameOfImagination'' armour, both natural and crafted, works this way. If the target is hit, the damage is reduced by a certain value, depending on the type and/or layers of armour. Can lead to situations when no damage is dealt at all. [[BoringButPractical Shields]] are special in this regard, as they both provide armour value ''and'' rise defenses, making it in the same time harder to hit their wielders.
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61	* ''VideoGame/ANNOMutationem'': The 654-2 item implements an increased reduction from damage for sixty seconds. All enemies have an [[BodyArmorAsHitPoints armor bar]] that significantly cuts the amount of damage given to them until it is fully depleted, with a FinishingMove dealing twice the amount before instantly refilling.
62	* ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireDragonQuarter'': "Absolute Defence" (ABD) is a special ability of certain late-game bosses. It prevents the boss from receiving a set amount of damage from a single combo string, so long combos are the best way to damage them. Visually, it looks like a BeehiveBarrier, that shatters once a strike overcomes the damage reduction. Near the end of the game, it's used for a narrative purpose: [[spoiler:Chetyre, the final boss, has so much Absolute Defence, your only hope to overcome it is to defeat him in one hit - and this hit is a KamehameHadoken that completely fills your D-Counter (something that normally triggers a NonStandardGameOver) and overpowers him in a BeamOWar]].
63	* ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'' has three forms of this. The first, actually called Damage Reduction, subtracts damage taken by a set amount, and the second is Damage Resistance, which reduces damage taken by a percentage at certain levels. Notably, they reduce ''all'' types of damage, regardless of element or type. The third, Elemental Resistance, reduces damage of a specific element by a percentage at certain levels.
64	* ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork'': Standing on a Holy panel will halve any and all damage taken. While obviously useful for Mega Man, enemies can also take advantage of it if Holy panels spawn on their side of the field.
65	* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'':
66	** Armour in the isometric ''VideoGame/Fallout1'' titles typically have two stats for each type of damage: Damage Threshold and Damage Resistance. Damage Threshold reduces damage received by a fixed amount for each attack, while Damage Resistance reduces what's left by a percentage.
67	** ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' only used Damage Resistance, but ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' brought back Damage Threshold with one quirk: It reversed the calculation order, so that DR reduces incoming damage before DT. Appropriately, DR is a lot harder to come by, banished to the realms of Med-X and [[SecretAIMoves select NPCs]], but stacking multiple chems while wearing good armor can make you an ImplacableMan. Another change is that the [[ScratchDamage minimum]] amount of damage you can take is 20%, rather than the 15% of ''Fallout 3''[[labelnote:Technically]]DT alone can only reduce damage by 80%, but this is after the reduction from Damage Resistance (which still has the 85% cap). Max DT and DR can thus stack together, reducing final damage to a whopping '''3'''%.[[/labelnote]].
68	** ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' removes Damage Threshold again and changes Damage Resistance from a fixed percentage reduction per point to [[https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Damage_Resistance#Fallout_4 a more complicated formula]] generating a percentage reduction based on the ratio of damage over Damage Resistance. The result is that [[ScratchDamage no finite amount of Damage Resistance will fully negate any attack]] and adding together many sources of DR suffers from tremendous DiminishingReturnsForBalance.
69	* Similarly in ''VideoGame/FrontMission'', Wanzers have a built in armor plating that reduces damage from any one of the three attack elements (namely Impact, Pierce and Flame). More generally, Wanzer pilots can equip skills that reduce incoming damage or cut certain amounts of damage altogether. The former is great against single shot, high attack power weapons while the latter is excellent against burst fire weapons.
70	* Mechs in ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' titles can have physical shields or DeflectorShields that reduce damage by a percentage or a set amount. Larger units also take less damage from smaller ones, and certain pilot skills also reduce damage (usually one named "Guard", and some character-specific things).
71	* Defense works this way in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG'', the ''VideoGame/PaperMario'' series, and ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiSuperstarSaga'' (but not its sequels). Both ''Super Mario RPG'' and ''Paper Mario'' use a simple attack power - defense formula for damage, though ''RPG'' has separate physical and magical stats (magic defense is generally lower), and all attacks will inflict at least one damage. ''Superstar Saga'' is a bit more complicated - POW and DEF are multiplied by different values before subtraction occurs. For enemies, it's always 0.4POW - 0.2DEF, with POW being different depending on the attack. Mario and Luigi have constant POW, but their multipliers vary a lot depending on which attack is used and how well you do the Action Commands.
72	* Defense in ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'' works like this. For every 2 Defence a player or enemy has (or 1.5 in Expert), they take one less damage from attacks. Attacks will still deal [[ScratchDamage at least one point of damage]], however.
73	* ''VideoGame/XCom''
74	** Most forms of defense in ''VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown'' work by either making a unit harder to hit (cover, various abilities) or adding HitPoints ([[ArmorAsHitPoints most armor]]). The exceptions are:
75	*** The Hardened trait (shared by most units on both sides that are incapable of taking cover) grants a negative modifier to the enemy's {{Critical Hit}} chance, usually enough to nullify all chance without special modifiers.
76	*** Resilience, a skill for Assault troopers, completely nullifies Critical Hits.
77	*** The [[{{Cyborg}} MEC trooper]] skills Damage Control, which reduces damage by 2 for 2 turns after taking a hit, and Absorption Fields reduce any hit that would take off more than a third of their life down to a third. Previously Assault-class MEC Troopers have Shock-Absorbent Armor, which reduces damage by 33% if the source of damage[[note]]the shooter's tile for regular gunfire, and the explosive's final position in case of grenades, rockets and such[[/note]] is less than 4 tiles away from the MEC. All of these stack.
78	*** Mechtoids protected by a Psi Shield take only 50% damage while the shield is up. This carries over to damage that destroys the shield and affets the Mechtoid's HP pool. The [[{{EMP}} Electro Pulse]] subsystem of tier 3 MEC suits [[ArmorPiercingAttack bypasses this resistance]].
79	*** With ''Enemy Within'', Sectopods gain Reinforced Armor, which cuts ''all damage'' taken by the Sectopod by 50%, effectively giving them 60 HP. Like with Psi Shield, [[ArmorPiercingAttack Electro Pulse ignores this trait]].
80	** The ''[[VideoGame/XCOMLongWar Long War]]'' GameMod for ''Enemy Unknown'' adds a specific damage reduction with its own icon, granted mainly to machine/armored enemies as well as units in cover.
81	** ''VideoGame/XCOM2'' adds an armor mechanic, most often seen on mechanical units or units wearing PowerArmor. Each point of armor reduces damage from weapon attacks by one point. [[AntiArmor Certain attacks can "shred" targets, permanently destroying a variable number of armor points]].
82	** Also present in ''XCOM 2'' and ''VideoGame/XCOMChimeraSquad'' is the Dodge stat. When the unit is targeted, a good roll for Dodge modifies the hit to be a grazing shot that deals only half or so damage. Critical hits cannot be dodged, and if the shooter has more than 100% chance to hit from stacked modifiers, the excess hit chance takes away from Dodge. The [[TheStraightAndArrowPath Bolt Caster]] from ''XCOM 2'''s "Alien Hunters" DLC completely ignores Dodge as well.
83	* Characters in ''VideoGame/NexusWar'' have a Soak value for each type of damage, reducing the damage received by a flat amount. For example, a character wearing a chain-mail shirt would suffer reduced slashing damage from a sword strike but take full damage from an acid spell. Resistance is a percentile reduction applied after Soak, only available through certain skills. ScratchDamage applies in that the target will always suffer at least 1 point of damage if not completely immune to the damage type.
84	* In ''VideoGame/AncientDomainsOfMystery'', this is how armour works: it mostly grants "Protection Value", and your Protection Value is your amount of damage resistance. (There is also "Defensive Value", which makes you harder to hit.)
85	* In ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'', this is the purpose of armor for players and enemies alike. Unlike most examples, it's a percentage-based modifier, with the fraction of damage received decreasing asymptotically as armor increases. Notably, it only reduces the damage taken to health; shields get no benefit whatsoever. It also alters the effectiveness of different damage types. There are still ways around it: Corrosive procs, Corrosive Projection, and certain Warframe Augments can permanently reduce enemy armor, while [[InfinityPlusOneElement Finisher damage]] ignores it outright.
86	* ''VideoGame/{{Iji}}'' has the "Suppression" trait, unlocked by maxing out the Health stat (to a maximum of 20 HP), which reduces any HP damage by one, to a minimum of one. One boss has a 5 HP attack that has both a flag for ignoring all defenses (MercyInvincibility, Suppression, etc.) and a special code for not ignoring Suppression after all.
87	* ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'':
88	** Armor works by subtracting a flat amount (which can vary over time as Blizzard tweaks game balance) from any instance of incoming damage, [[PercentBasedValues or halving it]], depending on which would result in damage reduction having the lesser effect.
89	** There are also several buffs that reduce a percentage of incoming damage. The most interesting examples are Orisa's Fortify, which halves incoming damage for a few seconds (among other things), and Ana's Nano Boost, which applies a buff to an ally which halves incoming damage for a few seconds (among other things). Consider not only that these stack, but that Orisa has the aforementioned armor, and you can see how a nigh-unkillable Orisa can exist.
90	* The ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' games typically have the Protect and Shell spells, which reduce damage from physical and magical damage respectively.
91	** Steelskin in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake'' is an ability of Barret's that reduces incoming damage by 30% and also makes him [[ImmuneToFlinching harder to interrupt]].
92	** Many bosses in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'' get a [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard "hidden" buff]] that takes 30% off the top of any incoming damage once their health drops below a certain point. Both the player characters and enemies can also have an augment that gives a {{Critical Status Buff}} to physical defense.
93	** The Sentinel class from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'' has abilities that reduce incoming damage with an added effect such as healing or a counter-attack. Combined with DrawAggro abilities, this lets Sentinels soak up massive numbers of attacks for the rest of the party. One ability, Steelguard, further reduces incoming damage with each successive hit until enemy attacks are completely blocked.
94	** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' have tanks that have abilities whose purpose is to reduce incoming damage for a few seconds. Since a tank's job is to soak up damage, having damage reducing abilities makes their job easier. Healers have barriers which absorb a certain amount of damage before the barrier breaks.
95	** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsAdvance'' and ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsA2'' have buffs that directly increase the defense and resistance stats. The Blue Mage's Mighty Guard spell, learned from dragon-type enemies, bestows both. Their effects also stack with Protect and Shell.
96	* In ''VideoGame/SinsOfASolarEmpire'', capital ships and bigger things get damage reduction from two sources: armor and shields (while they're up). Between the damage reduction and [[HealingFactor self-repair]], putting down a capital ship and higher is a pretty tough task.
97	* ''Franchise/FireEmblem'': Both ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' and ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'' have a couple of skills that work like this. Pavise can potentially halve the damage from swords, lances, axes and beaststones, while Aegis can halve damage from bows, tomes, hidden weapons and dragonstones.
98	* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' has the Barrier, Reflect, and Light Screen moves. The former two reduce physical damage, while the latter reduces special damage.
99	* In ''VideoGame/CryingSuns'', the Armoured Hull auxiliary system halves all damage your battleship takes until its first [[MultipleLifeBars hull bar]] goes down.
100	* In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories'', the Defender enemy card grants a single-use buff that reduces incoming physical damage while the Ursula card reduces incoming magic damage. Their effects are even respectively named after the Protect and Shell spells of ''Final Fantasy'' fame. They're also MutuallyExclusivePowerups since only one enemy card can be active at a time.
101	* Gordon's HEV suit in ''VideoGame/HalfLife'' acts like this instead of BodyArmorAsHitPoints. The suit cannot fully stop incoming damage, but it will take the brunt of it so Gordon's health will take less damage. Once the suit's charge is fully depleted, Gordon will start taking full damage.
102	* ''VideoGame/ForTheKing'': A character's Armor stat is subtracted from the {{Hit Point\|s}} damage of each incoming physical attack, to a minimum of [[NoSell zero]], while their Resistance stat does the same for magic damage. Protective equipment, spells, consumables, and other sources can all raise Armor and Resistance.
103	* ''Franchise/StarCraft'':
104	** In both games, a unit's Armor value is a flat negative to damage. This penalizes units with multiple attacks that, on-paper, do a certain ammount. As an example, the Firebat's unit profile ''says'' it does 8 damage per attack, but it ''really'' does 4 damage twice. So if it's fighting a Zergling who's got Carapace level 1, it's actually doing (4-1+4-1=)6 damage instead of 7.
105	** In ''VideoGame/StarCraftI'', a unit's Size category allows it to resist certain [[DamageTyping damage types]]. A Small unit only takes half-damage from Explosive weapons, and a Large unit takes half damage from Concussive damage. For example, a Zergling hit by a Dragoon's [[EnergyWeapon phase disruptor]] only takes 10 damage instead of the 20 damage the Dragoon's unit info ''says'' it does.
106	* ''VideoGame/{{Transistor}}'': Crash() as a passive:
107	--> User Damage Resisted: 25%
108	* ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII'':
109	** Armor increases in slowly decreasing amounts (capping out at around 99% reduction), with various spells and abilities increasing it.
110	** Mountain Giants can get the Hardened Skin upgrade, which removes all incoming damage by a fixed amount to a minimum.
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