Official Move Approval IV

[Mark]

Alright. Here's a new try at the Cold Gun:

The signature weapon held by Leonard Snart, the Cold Gun is, in design, both similar and different to the Heat Gun.

It does indeed fire a beam of it's respective element, represented by a beam of light blue and white energy. The beam lasts for 15 seconds of continuous fire, after which the beam stops. It still has to be reloaded after 4 blasts are fired. However, the move is less powerful in exchange for a complete lack of cooldown time. The constant beam reaches a maximum range of 12 meters - a 2 meter increase from that of it's counterpart - and those far away from the blast do take less damage. The beam is 1 meter all around, circular, and goes at a speed of 10 miles per hour. Beams are fire and forget, however, they aren't easy to aim. They always go a bit off-center from the barrel. The beams are pretty weak.

The target, upon being hit, is frozen lightly, moving slower, however the effect cancels out that of the light burns provided by the Heat Gun, and vice-versa. The freezing lasts for about 5 seconds, but cannot be stopped before the effect stops taking place unless the Heat Gun hits the target.

The weapon, when used with the Heat Gun at the same time, has an additional caveat - if you cross beams with the Heat Gun, the vastly conflicted temperatures will rocket back at the weapon opposite of their element, destroying them both until Mick takes the time and Omnilium to fix them. This weapon is one-handed, and can be used in conjunction with other one-handed weapons or moves. Snart can keep up to 15 ammo clips on him, but there is a caveat that he can't gather more easily - he either has to get lucky with searching, or have Mick summon more.

I still have an issue with the ammo usage, insta-freeze, its duration, and the lack of necessary concentration. With the effect being instant and having nearly 15 minutes of blasting time, with each individual hit freezing the foe solid for a full five seconds, this could cause some serious problems with balancing. Though it may not be 100% true to canon, I’d recommend giving the effect a build-up time like Mei did. This allows for a fair debuff that can still work but doesn’t allow you to cheese the battle by re-freezing the foe repeatedly.

The lack or accuracy doesn’t really mean too much when the beam is a yard wide. Also, I don’t know what you mean by ‘searching’, but if you have an ammo cap you won’t be able to find ammo just lying around to get around it.