Pierce (XC1)

Pierce is a debuff in Xenoblade Chronicles and Future Connected. It causes attacks to ignore the victim's physical and ether defence, essentially treating it as zero. This also applies to enemies (only possible via ), treating their defences as zero whether they are positive or negative.

Pierce is most dangerous when used against an armour tank or other character whose main way of dealing with is reducing it. It is still a problem for dodge tanks or other characters with low defence, but much less so.

Pierce can be prevented by equipping Pierce Resist gems.