Boom Blade

Boom Blade is a moderate-range Plasma-based technique, although some users prefer to use a close-range variation in conjunction with a weapon. 
==Description==
There are two forms of this technique, one for moderate ranges, the other for close ranges. 
In the ranged form, the user scythes a fist, claw or melee weapon across their body, creating a slow-moving but wide wave of Plasma that travels a short distance and detonates. This concussive wave is strong enough to throw any target that it catches at ground zero backwards roughly fifteen meters, although it lacks the high energy required to penetrate most solid barricades. The further away from the blast the target is, the shorter the distance they are thrown, but the more likely it is that they will flinch. 
The close-range variation requires a claw or bladed weapon to be charged with the plasma, before being thrust into the opponent's personal space and detonated. The force of this blast, due to the concentrated nature of the attack, is capable of throwing both the target and the user backwards up to twenty meters, and is more likely to cause anybody unprepared for the detonation to flinch than the wave-variation, as the Plasma is unseen until the last minute. Due to the use of a bladed weapon, if the weapon is stabbed into a barrier, the detonation can be devastating as the blast is created within the material, forcing it apart. 
==Users==
*Scorch the Pyrohog
*Berylsythe - typically uses the close-range version, with both claws, and doesn't get thrown back by the explosion due to her sheer weight
==Variants==
N/A
==Rank==
The two variations bear different ranks, due to their differing capabilities. 
The ranged form holds a C-rank, due to its flinch-chance and the knockback effect.
By contrast, the close-in form bears an A-rank, due to its destructive force and surprise nature.
Category:Abilities/Sort
Category:Plasma Abilities
Category:Physical_Abilities
Category:Special Attacks
Category:Flinch-inducing Abilities