Could Tien's Tribeam push #19 if it's palms are opened, facing Tien's direction?

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Could Tien's Tribeam push #19 if it's palms are opened, facing Tien's direction?

Post by Angelus » Sun Dec 18, 2016 7:31 pm

Imagine Tien shooting Tribeams at #19. #19 is on the ground while Tien is floating above. #19 has his palms open at Tien's direction. Would it push #19 down into a square crater?
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Re: Could Tien's Tribeam push #19 if it's palms are opened, facing Tien's direction?

Post by SuperKirillin » Sun Dec 18, 2016 10:41 pm

No. #19 will absorb that attack as energy and therefore there won't be a crater.
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Re: Could Tien's Tribeam push #19 if it's palms are opened, facing Tien's direction?

Post by Angelus » Sun Dec 18, 2016 11:17 pm

Would #19 get pushed down though?
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Re: Could Tien's Tribeam push #19 if it's palms are opened, facing Tien's direction?

Post by RandomGuy96 » Sun Dec 18, 2016 11:31 pm

Unless sticking out its palm just creates a giant absorb-all-energy field around the machine, the blast is still going to hit every part on the machine in addition to its palm. So yes.
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Re: Could Tien's Tribeam push #19 if it's palms are opened, facing Tien's direction?

Post by Ki Breaker » Mon Dec 19, 2016 6:14 am

Android gets destroyed, palms cannot protect all of body and tri beam attacks on a whole area
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Re: Could Tien's Tribeam push #19 if it's palms are opened, facing Tien's direction?

Post by dragon boss z » Mon Dec 19, 2016 10:04 pm

Whatever the plot calls for
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Re: Could Tien's Tribeam push #19 if it's palms are opened, facing Tien's direction?

Post by Tectorman » Tue Dec 20, 2016 1:19 am

According to the visuals for both 19 absorbing Goku's Kamehameha and 20 absorbing Vegeta's blast, all the energy seemed to be drawn into the palm absorby things, even though the blasts were way wider than the palm absorby things. So I imagine they'd do the same thing to the Tri-Beam.
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Re: Could Tien's Tribeam push #19 if it's palms are opened, facing Tien's direction?

Post by Pantalones » Tue Dec 20, 2016 2:41 pm

Well first of all, Kikoho doesn't just "push." I don't think #19 is so far beyond Tenshinhan that he wouldn't get wrecked if he took a Shin Kikoho head-on without absorbing it -- he's waaaaay weaker than #17, #18, or Imperfect Cell, let alone the much, much stronger "Semi-Perfect" Cell that only got forcefully shoved backward by Shin Kikoho hits (but, more importantly, couldn't just power through them -- Shin Kikoho was hitting harder than #16's punch at least, even if it wasn't enough to harm Cell) rather than taking any serious damage.

But yeah, if #19 saw Tenshinhan preparing a Kikoho and put the absorption circles on his palms outward before it was unleashed, I figure he would be able to absorb the energy of the attack and avoid taking any damage (including being knocked back.) Any energy around the far edges of the attack's range that somehow didn't get absorbed would still blast a hole into the ground behind the Android, but it wouldn't be the Kikoho's usual perfect square crater due to a big chunk of the energy in the middle being removed before impact.
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