pH Shift Technique: The Melting of Man

Name: PH Shift Technique: The Melting of Man
Element: Water + Lightning
Rank: E-S
Specialty: Ninjutsu
Particular Jutsu Type: N/A

Backstory: Upon successfully creating the technique she needed- one to shift the balance of the pH values in the air- and making it a base for her research into the collaboration of shinobi jutsu usage and scientific anomalies, Baliquis decided with finality: it would become the gateway. No, the foundation to various other techniques to capitalize and explore the new world of possibilities in which a shift in pH value alone could be helpful. This is the first technique she developed to work in tandem, and though it was the first of its kind and perhaps the most unstable: It most certainly would not be the last. It would merely be the first brick upon the foundation she had laid and only one part of the design she had in mind for the 'house' to come.

Appearance: Those subjected to this technique will begin to suffer and become afflicted with deformities when an affected body part comes in contact with a Water- or Lightning release technique. This includes blisters which then decay into the stages of their skin beginning to melt off and punctually followed by the flourishing of this technique at its prime: Whole limbs succumbing to bone-damaging and bone-marrow-deep melting to ensure a messy and unwelcome sewerage of the afflicted amenity and the rest of its conjoined body.

Handseals:

• E-Rank: Ram
  
• D-Rank: Ram, Dog
  
• C-Rank: Ram, Dog, Bird
  
• B-Rank: Ram, Dog, Bird, Tiger
  
• A-Rank: B-Rank: Ram, Dog, Bird, Tiger, Rabbit
  
• S-Rank: -Rank: Ram, Dog, Bird, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon
  

Duration: See below.
Cooldown: Posts used+2
Range: Self
Power: 1 / 5 / 10 / 20 / 50 / Vigor Stat
Speed: N/A
Health: N/A
Stat Boosts: N/A
What it does:

This technique applies the following effects to any "pH Counters" that exist in the thread before the technique's successful initiation, any that are maintained during the technique, and any that are gained after the method.

This technique allows the user to imbue a jutsu with one of the following element bases, with "pH Counters" that can be applied or removed to a target via jutsu making physical contact:

• Water-Release.
  
• Lightning-Release.
  

Techniques that have "pH Counters" applied must be of equal or lower rank than this jutsu and may only be Ninjutsu-based or prior mentioned element. No multi-specialty jutsus may be imbued with this technique's ability to grant a "pH Counters" technique.

This effect lasts over multiple posts, and it is based on the rank of the selected jutsu in the following span:

• E-C Rank: Up to 2 Posts.
  
• B-A Rank: Up to 3 Posts.
  
• S-Rank: Up to 4 Posts.
  

If the power stat of this jutsu is higher than that of a Water-Based opposing jutsu, the caster can imbue that water technique instead with "pH Counters" as well. This effect and "pH Counters" will ignore non-Chakra Armor effects and protections.

"pH Counters" that are consumed or forcibly removed by a technique will have a delayed effect as the target's body must re-adjust to its 'Natural State.' 'Natural State' was before having "pH Counters" applied. This adjustment creates an intense, internal burning sensation that burns at a power equal to the technique imbued with "pH Counters" for a minimum and maximum of 2 posts starting at the beginning of the target's next post.

At A-Rank or higher, for an additional 10 AP, the following effect can be taken advantage of:

• All "pH Counters" shift from using their base 10 AP per counter burn to dealing burn damage equal in AP to the power of a jutsu imbued with this technique. (i.e., if a jutsu imbued with this technique has a capacity of 40, each "pH Counter" will burn at a rate of 40 AP.)
  

Character Specific: Baliquis Hozuki and those she teaches.
Wordcount to learn: 250 E-Rank / 500 D-Rank / 1000 C-Rank  / 1500 B-Rank  / 2,750 A-Rank / 5000 S-Rank
Action Cost: 10 / 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 / 100 AP
Mastery: No.
Bonus Requirements: Must have Hozuki Hidden Art: pH Shifter, must be Hozuki (Pureblood).
Canon, Custom, Bloodline, or Village Exclusive: Custom Character Exclusive.

Approved

Pulled for review.

As already mentioned in the Direct Messages -
AP burn inflicted per post using PH counters is incredibly high. As you prefer a more direct approach to reviews I'm going to suggest that the following segment should be removed -

B wrote:At A-Rank or higher, for an additional 10 AP, the following effect can be taken advantage of:

All "pH Counters" shift from using their base 10 AP per counter burn to dealing burn damage equal in AP to the power of a jutsu imbued with this technique. (i.e., if a jutsu imbued with this technique has a capacity of 40, each "pH Counter" will burn at a rate of 40 AP.)

Instead, your PH counters would persist to doing 10AP burn per counter per post which is more than fair in the wider scope of the AP impacts.

The effect of the technique in question is one of if not THE core traits of the technique, and if changed to the suggestion, would make the entire technique obsolete. I am actively working with staff to make an edit to the technique that would change the overall values of the effect in question rather than omit it entirely.

Core Trait: Addition to pH Counter Values.

I am actively working with Satoru on alternative effects and edits to the ability with the optimistic hope of a mutually agreed upon decision.

In the interest of transparency, while I appreciate the core trait of this technique is to improve the potency of the pH stacks I have made my view on their overwhelming strength clear to the creator.

I'm willing to consider a different effect for this technique but highlighted that I wouldn't consider changes to the already addressed aspect of the technique as it's conceptually too strong.

Hello,

With the technique in its current form, when chained with the users Tomorrow's Energy technique a simple Rain at Will Tiger technique has the potential to cause an AP to burn in excess of 1, 000 per post.

My initial statement on this when conversing with Lex was that it was effectively making Genjutsu obsolete. However, it's quite evident that this technique is leagues and bounds stronger than anything else on the site just from the sheer perspective of the amount of AP that could be drained with it.

Four or so days ago, the initial agreement was to introduce a new effect into the technique that didn't increase the AP drain mechanics of the pH stacks.

Lex later backtracked on the agreement.

Fundamentally, Lex appears to believe that being able to burn an excess of 1000AP per post, per technique affected by the pH counters is somehow balanced. Naturally, she has offered alternatives for reducing the AP burn per post. However, as the Melting Man can be applied to multiple techniques within the wider pH stack ecosystem, anything above the base 100 AP burn per 10 stacks would be way too much of an AP drain.

Lex has since refused to make any progress on the technique.

As a result and with regret, this technique is hereby denied.

You're at liberty to request a refund of the technique on your stat page.

Thank you.