Quote Originally Posted by KrayZ33 View Post
I doubt that heavily...
during the first episode he used his beam-sword to attack, then when he dodges, his sword is normal again

don't get fooled by bad anime/animation-logic (since they don't want to or can't show the shield-display while they fight)
rewatch the fight especially the part @ around 15:30, even though he dodges attacks the shield power is still being consumed
that didnt make sense either, he dodged every single shot and his shield went down from 500-300 or something like that
True enough, the counter seems to be independent of what happens on screen.