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Eddv posted...

Eh?

Luminaire is a lightning attack.

Cloud Strife is as he appears in Final Fantasy 7 Remake and continuations, with full access to all his moves and Limit Breaks seen therein. He has access to all elemental magic materia, Deadly Dodge, Parry, Steadfast Block, Healing, Barrier, Subversion, Time, Elemental (linked to Lightning), Assess, Refocus and Bahamut, all fully mastered. He has been hit by Crono and Aigis' Burst Smite Dual Tech, born of combining Luminaire and Heritage Liberator Palladion. Its effect is up to interpretation, but will never be less damaging than the sum of each technique or spell's individual effects. (edited to underline versus bold, since bold is for votes and rulings)

Maxed Elemental materia gives absorption effect to the related elemental attack, so start of battle combo, you take the attack of the Heritage Liberator Palladion, and reduce the damage that would do by the full force of the Luminaire. Bold might be law, (although i do disagree with it due to mechanics, and what would be timing, but that's beside the point in this argument) but there is nothing that negates Cloud's loadout from existing to change the situation of being hit by the full force of the attack, and shrugging it off, one half of it negating the damage from the other half.