Talk:The Bloodied Hands Arena/Sanzu the Crow vs Mackenzie the Tiger: Single Battle/@comment-32220816-20170707224828/@comment-5255416-20170707231824

It means that as Sanzu replays the memories in his head, Mac would feel them himself. Even the memories that didn't involve Sanzu getting hurt at that moment would still translate into damage as that's simply how his memory powers work: it channels both physical pain as well as the emotions that Sanzu feels from those memories and turns that into an attack.

However, Painful Palm is special in that the damage is received mentally instead of physically, so it bypasses any sort of defense the opponent would have. From what I understand (I suppose Smash could clear it up if I'm wrong), High Tension  is a method of increasing the strength of your physical form by using untapped energy. It doesn't increase your mental fortitude, however, so I believe that Mac would take the same amount of damage regardless of what form he was in.