Talk:Ainz Ooal Gown/Abilities and Powers/@comment-27008999-20160613211900/@comment-28768171-20160702220642

Consider someone uses a lightning element spell against and you use lightning resistance, you would take less damage from anything of the lightning element. If you also use magic defense buff then the spell does even less damage to you, but if someone were to use a weapon with the lightning element in it then your magic defense buff doesn't help you anymore. The stilletos that Clemintine use would actually be good to use magic defense buff against because they release a spell, they aren't actually empowered by any additional elemental damage. Hell you could even put a debuff spell in those things. Point is magic defense is damage reduction to all sources of a spell origin, but resistence is usually a specific kind of damage reduction, or some in games affliction resistance which decreases the effectivness of things like poison, paralysis, or sleep. Sorry If I'm overexplaining.