Talk:Shielding/@comment-9646977-20130616110053/@comment-15776551-20130822042054

There are a few ways I can think of and one I've actually done.

You could force loads of energy on the inside of the shield and then shatter or pop it sending psi shrapnel (only in the former) and a wave of energy at your opponent(s), but for however long it would take you to rebuild a shield you'd be defenseless.

A mirror shield is basically the embodiment of "the best offense is a good defense" as it reflects attacks which can bounce back into your opponent.

If you program the shield with proximity-based defenses like being electrically charged through electroK or extremely hot through pyroK it could hurt to get too close/touch it.

My method was creating a tulpa that acts as a suit and can shield (both as a chaos shield and marshmallow shield) and attack... physically? (using its claws, teeth, liquid-like body, blades, and tentacles) as well as drain psi and split off and attack as its own entity. I frustrated my one friend with this so bad we only ever sparred once. He wouldn't do it anymore unless I didn't use it.

Another could be to program it so it has a clairvoyant overload property. That way if your opponent got too close, they'd be bombarded by sound which would disrupt their concentration and maybe even give them a headache or confuse them. I've done something like this before, but not as a shield or in combat/sparring. People around me have all gotten headaches once I started broadcasting a loud mash of every dubstep song I've ever heard.

And one last thing I can think of would be to program the shield to also act as an amplifier or maybe construct a kind of megaphone-like apparatus on it so you could use it to charge up your attacks and release them on a larger scale even if it's only by a little bit.

More on that, if you did that to a marshmallow shield you could absorb your opponent's attacks as well to amplify your own attacks.