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duff · Post by **duff** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 2:40 am

No, not an assassination attempt, the ability to bump away from a tackling opponent to contiue running.
I see it a a general skill where a blitzing player who gets both down can instead choose to be pushed back to the eligible square of his choice and keep moving. The eligible squares are the 3 that would be available if the blitzed player scored a pushback.

amadoris · Post by **amadoris** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 5:19 pm

it would destroy the meaning of the "both down", i think

Pink Horror · Post by **Pink Horror** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 9:54 pm

I think you would still get knocked over unless you have block. It's a neat skill, but not useful enough in my opinion. Who would take it as a third pick?

plasmoid · Post by **plasmoid** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 8:11 am

Hi,
well - maybe if you didn't get knocked over even without block.
That would make it more useful - and slightly reduce the power of the ever present block skill.
Then again, it would start to look a lot like the vaults juggernaut skill.

Cheers
Martin

duff · Post by **duff** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 11:09 am

It differs in that it allows the runner to slip free rather than pushing the opponent, so it's a weaker skill which has general access.

Alesdair · Post by **Alesdair** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 7:32 pm

so it's a skill that garrentees that a blitzer will be free to move without dodgeing after his blitz on a guy who was standing alone...

duff · Post by **duff** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 12:22 pm

Alesdair wrote:so it's a skill that garrentees that a blitzer will be free to move without dodgeing after his blitz on a guy who was standing alone...

yep. ... if he got a both down. push back v stand firm/sidestep still calls for a dodge of course

thecheat231 · Post by **thecheat231** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 7:52 pm

I like this idea, it doesn't make sense that a player would put himself in harms way to get away from a player he has already hit, but the sad news is that me norse blitzers wouldn't get much use from it.

Xtreme · Post by **Xtreme** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 11:18 am

How would it interact with frenzy?

Alesdair · Post by **Alesdair** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 6:40 am

I don't see it effecting frenzy at all...

a) you couldn't frenzy after a 'both down' result

b) if the blitzer uses the skill they are stepped back to a non-adjacent square and thus they wouldn't get to frenzy.

so with or without the skill there would be no 2nd block from frenzy.

duff · Post by **duff** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 9:34 pm

thecheat231 wrote:I like this idea, it doesn't make sense that a player would put himself in harms way to get away from a player he has already hit, but the sad news is that me norse blitzers wouldn't get much use from it.

Your catchers would probably the ones to take it on, if anyone.

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