Attack Reflection

Abilities related to Reflection
Related Abilities	Attack Reflection - Momentum Reflection
Similar Abilities	Counter

Background

Attack Reflection is the ability to reflect or redirect incoming attacks, turning the opponent's offensive efforts back upon them. This ability allows users to neutralize or nullify attacks by sending them back toward the attacker, often with little to no energy lost in the process. Attack Reflection can apply to a wide variety of attack types, including physical, energy-based, or even magical assaults. Unlike traditional defenses like blocking or dodging, Attack Reflection lets the user not only defend but actively counterattack at the same time.

In many cases, the effectiveness of Attack Reflection is determined by the user's skill, reflexes, and understanding of the attack. Some individuals might reflect only certain types of attacks or struggle with attacks of immense power, while others may be capable of reflecting even the most destructive forces with ease. Attack Reflection is often paired with heightened senses or the ability to read an opponent's movements, as the user must be able to anticipate the incoming assault to successfully reflect it. Some practitioners can reflect attacks instantly, while others may need to prepare for a brief moment before the reflection occurs.

Attack Reflection is commonly depicted in many forms of media, particularly in combat-heavy genres like fighting games, fantasy, and superhero fiction, where it serves as both a defensive and offensive tool. The user's ability to reflect attacks often relies on specific tools, stances, or inherent skills, with some users requiring a precise focus or alignment with certain elements of their environment to achieve maximum effectiveness.

Potential Types

• Physical Reflection: Physical Reflection allows the user to reflect tangible, material-based attacks, such as physical projectiles, melee strikes, or other forms of physical force. This type typically involves redirecting the momentum of the incoming attack, often with great speed or force.
• Energy Reflection: Energy Reflection focuses on reflecting energy-based attacks, such as blasts of electricity, fire, or beams of concentrated power. This variation may involve redirecting the energy or dispersing it harmlessly, depending on the user's control over the reflected force.
• Magical Reflection: Magical Reflection allows users to reflect magical attacks, such as spells, curses, or reality-warping powers. This form of reflection often requires the user to have a deep understanding or affinity with magical forces in order to properly redirect them.
• Metaphysical Reflection: This category covers abstract, conceptual, or non-physical forces, such as time, mental manipulation, or soul-based attacks. Metaphysical Reflection can be used to reflect attacks targeting the mind, time, or other intangible elements, redirecting their effects back toward the attacker.
• Intangible Reflection: Intangible Reflection involves reflecting attacks that affect non-physical or incorporeal targets, such as spirits, energy constructs, or intangible forces. This variation typically requires the user to interact with the reflection on a non-material level, using a spiritual or psychic focus.

Possible Uses

• Redirecting Attacks: The most common and straightforward use of Attack Reflection is the redirection of incoming physical or energy-based attacks back at the opponent. The user can reflect projectiles, melee strikes, and even elemental assaults back toward the attacker with no additional energy required.
• Magical Reflection: In some cases, Attack Reflection can be used to reflect magical or mystical attacks, turning the effects of spells and curses back onto the caster. This includes abilities such as reflecting fireballs, beams of energy, or even reality-altering powers.
• Energy Reflection: Attack Reflection is commonly used to counter energy-based attacks like lasers, energy blasts, or shockwaves. In these cases, the reflected energy may retain its power, be altered, or even increase in intensity when redirected.
• Elemental Attack Reflection: Some users of Attack Reflection can reflect not only physical attacks but also attacks involving the elements, such as water, fire, or wind. The user may even be able to control the elemental force of the reflected attack for strategic purposes.
• Counterattack: Attack Reflection often results in the user counterattacking in addition to defending. The redirected attack may carry the same momentum and force, allowing the user to cause significant harm to the opponent using their own attacks.

Possible Limitations

• Type of Attack: Some forms of Attack Reflection may only work with specific types of attacks, such as physical projectiles, energy blasts, or magic. A user might not be able to reflect attacks of a different nature, such as those that bypass conventional defense mechanisms (e.g., curses, reality-bending powers, or attacks that do not involve a direct projectile or force).
• Skill Requirement: The success of Attack Reflection often depends on the user's skill, reflexes, and timing. Less experienced users may struggle to reflect high-speed or complex attacks, or they may only be able to reflect attacks of lower intensity.
• Energy Limitation: While some users can reflect attacks without expending significant energy, others may tire more quickly from repeatedly reflecting powerful attacks. In some cases, reflecting particularly strong or concentrated assaults might require a greater expenditure of stamina, or the reflection might lose potency over time.
• Effectiveness Against Multiple Attacks: Some users may struggle to reflect multiple attacks simultaneously, particularly when overwhelmed by a barrage of projectiles, physical strikes, or diverse types of offensive techniques.
• Reflection Capacity: Depending on the user's ability, they may be limited to reflecting only one attack at a time or may have to perform a special maneuver to reflect large-scale attacks. Highly powerful attacks, such as those on a planetary or cosmic scale, might also be beyond the user's reflection capability.

Users

• Kirby (Kirby): Kirby can eat projectiles and spit them back out at their enemies.
• Ness Super Smash Bros.: Can reflect projectiles and energy attacks back toward opponents using his bat.
• Arwing (Star Fox): The Arwing fighter can reflect enemy fire back toward them through the use of a barrel roll.

Potency

The potency of Attack Reflection can vary greatly depending on the user and the context. For example:

• Low Potency: Some characters may only be able to reflect weak or small-scale attacks, such as small projectiles or low-powered energy blasts.
• Medium Potency: In more skilled users, Attack Reflection can extend to larger, more powerful attacks, including beams, large projectiles, or concentrated elemental forces.
• High Potency: Advanced users may be capable of reflecting massive assaults, such as powerful magical spells, widespread energy attacks, or even complex attacks that change forms or properties during the process of reflection. These characters may even reflect attacks with additional force or altered properties.
• Ultimate Potency: At its peak, Attack Reflection could allow the user to reflect nearly any attack, no matter its size or type, and may even be able to manipulate the reflected energy to devastating effects, potentially redirecting it with greater power or manipulating the force of the reflected attacks for strategic advantage.