Battle damage

Battle damage
Japanese	戦（せん）闘（とう）ダメージ
Japanese (ruby)	せんとうダメージ
Japanese (base text)	戦闘ダメージ
Japanese (romanized)	Sentō Damēji
English	Battle damage
Other names French: Dommages de combat (always in plural) German: Kampfschaden Italian: Danno da combattimento Korean: 전투 데미지 Spanish: Daño de batalla

Battle damage (Japanese: 戦（せん）闘（とう）ダメージ Sentō Damēji; Chinese: 戰鬥傷害 Zhàndòu Shānghài) is the damage inflicted to a player's Life Points from battle.

Battle damage can be inflicted when two monsters battle.

• If the attack target is in Attack Position:
  • If the monsters have different ATK, the controller of the monster with the lowest ATK takes battle damage equal to the difference.
• If the attack target is in Defense Position:
  • If the attack target's DEF is greater than the attacker's ATK, the attacking monster's controller takes battle damage equal to the difference.
  • If the attack target's DEF is lower than the attacker's ATK, the attack target's controller does not take battle damage unless the attacking monster inflicts piercing damage.

If a monster with nonzero attack attacks a player directly, that player takes battle damage equal to that monster's ATK. As such, an attack from "Mucus Yolk" with 0 ATK does not inflict damage so no effect can activate in response to it, including those of "Mucus Yolk" itself and "Gorz the Emissary of Darkness".

Monsters can still be destroyed by battle even if battle damage is not inflicted, and battle damage can still be inflicted even if monsters are not destroyed.

Both words were initially capitalized, but since Absolute Powerforce have been consistently lowercase.