How would Cat Fall interact with a Stone Giant's Big Swing?

[SandersonTavares]

Stone Giants have an ability called Big Swing, that pushes an enemy 10-20 feet, and if they collide with a wall or land on the ground(a very confusing clause, by the way, given that an enemy that is on the same level as the giant will technically always land on the ground) they take damage as if they had fallen that distance.

Does that mean a character with cat fall will potentially negate all damage from being thrown to a wall? It makes no sense to me and is easily addressed by a ruling on the table, but I would love to know the intent.

[Nefreet]

The Thread's Title wrote:

How would Cat Fall interact with a Stone Giant's Big Swing?

Sounds like a pretty epic pairing, to me.

[thenobledrake]

If the ability says "take damage as if they had fallen that distance" and the character in question would take reduced damage for falling that distance, then they reduce this damage too.

Why? Because it says "as if they..."

If it were meant to figure damage in the same way, but not invoke every reduction that applies to falling damage, it'd say something like "take damage equal to half the distance pushed" instead.

As for making sense - that went out the window the instant a 12-foot tall humanoid with physical proportions that can't physically support it's 1500 pound weight strolled onto the scene, so stressing about how it doesn't instantly smash any normal-sized person made of flesh and bone into a gritty paste, whether on initial contact or after they splat against a hard surface, is missing the forest for the trees.

[rainzax]

"The Stone Giant mauls the poor wizard, crashing her against the wall with Big Swing of it's club, knocking her prone and causing internal bleeding. The rogue steps up, stabs the Giant in the shin, and is in turn glanced with the mighty club, now flying through the air, but manages to twist and tumble with cat-like reflexes, amazingly landing on his feet sideways onto the wall, and gracefully dropping from there back to the level dirt, readying another skirmishing strike, while the wizard clumsily picks herself up from the same level dirt..."