Official Move Approval IV

[Mark]

*Note, meant to post this on my King Sombra account. 

Name of Move: Retaliatory Shield
Cost of Move: 300 OM
Requirements: Area Shield Proficiency, Area Attack.
Description of Move:

Sombra will light his horn and create a crystal wall that is about 20 feet tall in front of him. The Crystal Wall is unique in that it does something unexpected. Hid along the wall are ‘mini crystals’ that shoot mini beams of energy upon an impact with the Crystal Wall. These beams are about the size of a bullet each, but about 60 of them are fired. They travel at the speed of an arrow, but don’t do much damage, doing even less than pitiful damage to an opponent. Retaliatory Shield is a move that punishes attacks with beams of energy.

This takes him roughly seven seconds to activate. This lasts until he can no longer put energy into it, or until an attack somehow shatters the shield in one move. Supermoves for example could break the shield with a single strike. The beams can shoot 15 feet in any direction, and Sombra can move while using this. Essentially it's like a Turtle Shell that's been repurposed into a shield in front of him, but is about 20 feet tall. Unfortunately due to energy constraints, all Sombra can do is move while doing this... he can't use other moves. There also ways that this can be beaten, simply shoot under the shield or somehow shoot around, or over the shield.  This shield is a slightly curved in wall, so it can block a lot of angles.

Approved. For the record regarding your question Yukki, it's approved at 300 per the bit in the Moves rules about 'and' vs 'or'. Since the shield always retaliates and the beams can't just be fired at will when the wall is not struck, it counts at a single use. The caveat here is that both things happening will mean that each is weaker than they would be as separate moves. As Sombra stated, the beams are extremely weak and have a relatively short range. Similarly, the wall would be somewhat weaker or harder to maintain than just a plain wall.

I'd of course be fine with Omni overruling me on this, but that's how I'm interpreting things.