IS: Infinite Stratos

[KrayZ33]

exactly...

in an RPG game this would be a berserker class IS (in most cases)
or if you play league of legends, take Sions enrage ability as an example (each attack costs health but deal more damage)
or Lost Planet T-Eng weapons (probably the best comparison)

and there is no difference in life-death-battle and the sports battle
if your shield reaches zero points you have lost your defence and the next hit will finish you off, the sports-battle will just stop right before that happens

so its a double edged sword in both cases and equally dangerous to use.. but it can end everything with a single blow...(or 2... who knows how much attack power he will gain
but from what his Sister (that weapon was the key to victory) it sounds like she had problems fighting certain enemies, maybe because she couldn't hit them too often because they were too fast, and that attack helped her dealing enough damage.

[Ryllharu]

but it can end everything with a single blow...(or 2... who knows how much attack power he will gain
but from what his Sister (that weapon was the key to victory) it sounds like she had problems fighting certain enemies, maybe because she couldn't hit them too often because they were too fast, and that attack helped her dealing enough damage.

The biggest flaw is it looks like he can take very little damage at all before he goes in for the strike. Cecilia pounded him pretty good but his shield still had a lot of strength before it went.

He went to 470 after her first hit (14:29, Ayako) down to about 238 (18:53, Ayako), and then immediately to zero. I'm guessing it starts at around 500. That means he has to use at or around half of his shield to strike.

As far as I'm concerned, that makes it a highly flawed weapon. If all his opponents focused on kendo like weapons, fine, but there are a lot of varied types of attacks as we saw in the opening moments of the first episode. No matter how fast he is, no matter how good at dodging, he will take some hits. He essentially cannot win if he takes any kind of significant damage.

Maybe he can control how much he puts into it, maybe he can't. For now, I'm going off of what we know and what we have seen.