You have the power to turn kinetic energy into stored energy, later using it to protect yourself from harm. Should you receive a forceful blow, you can absorb a portion of its energy, thereby reducing its effectiveness and recharging your stores.

Whenever an opponent achieves an exceptional success in a physical attack where you are the defender, you may spend 2 charges of Kineticism to reduce the exceptional success to a normal success. If your opponent has a power which gives her an automatic exceptional success, activating this power causes them to instead check for an exceptional success normally.

In addition, you may gain a charge of Kineticism whenever a physical attack would harm you for 2 or more points of damage. You may determine if this benefit applies before applying the effects of Fortitude or other powers. If you gain a charge of Kineticism in this way, you may not spend it to apply Kinetic Dampening toward the same attack.