Gum Laser

The **Gum Laser** is a Gum Shoot in *Ninjala* that takes on the form of Lasers. When fired, a laser spreads out in the direction the camera is pointing and pierces opponents with lightning speed. In fact it is the fastest Gum Shoot in the game. Depending on the size of the gum, up to 3 lasers are shot while each laser deals Gum Damage.

* A small sized Gum Laser, for which up to 3 Units of S-Energy is needed, fires a single Laser.
* A medium sized Gum Laser, needing 4 to 7 Units of S-Energy, fires two Lasers.
* A large sized Gum Laser, with 8 or more S-Energy, fires three Lasers.

Medium sized Gum Laser.Under normal circumstances, if a Gum Laser smaller than large-sized is fired, two Gum Shoots are needed to Gum Bind an opponent. Only for the large sized Gum Laser one Gum Shoot is sufficient for Gum Binding. Normal circumstances meaning no Shinobi Card or anything alike is used to increase Gum Damage.

The Gum Laser is currently the fastest Gum Shoot. The range of the lasers depends on the number of lasers shot. It can pierce opponents but not Drones or walls. With a mid Season patch of Season 11 a longer hit stun was added.

The downside of the Gum Shoot is that if an opponent gets Gum Bind, the bind duration is below average compared to other Gum Shoots.

## Priority

   Gum Laser has a very high priority compared to all the other Gum Shoots. It shares it's priority level with the deployed Gum Net. Both hitting each other results into a tie. This means, unlike a lot of Gum Shoots, they just ignore each other, they don't get canceled. Like Gum Balloon and Gum Kunai Gum Laser increases in quantity rather than size and therefore the priority doesn't change. So the priority of small Laser is the same as the priority of large Laser. There are only two Gum Shoots that can compete with Laser, Gum Searcher and Gum Ghost, although the latter one cannot be used defensively as it just goes through the Laser.

### Versus other Projectile Attacks

*The projectile attack priority list can be found here.*

As the priority of Gum Laser doesn't change when being shoot with a greater size it is reliable against projectile attacks. Laser is a strong Gum Shoot and can wipe out any projectile with the priority up to Razor Edge. It can counter Normal Attack of Punch Type B weapons at any stage, Sound Bullets of Hammer Type B and the Zanshin Back Attack of Extra Type A weapons. So basically any projectile Standard Attack and the rather weaker Special Attacks. Similar to the outcome of Gum Laser versus a deployed Gum Net, when firing a Laser against Razor Edge both ignores each other. So Laser cannot be used defensively against it or any other projectile with the same priority. When it comes to the Back Attack of Sonic Trick (Sonic Trick BA) it will be wiped out however. Gum Laser user not only have to keep an eye on everything ranked above Sonic Trick but also the exceptional projectile attacks Thunder Cannon, Cannon Bomber and Fiery Raid as they ignore the Laser just like Razor Edge.

## Weapons

* Shinobuzz Paper Fan
* Pop Eye
* Crushpop

## Patch History

### Version 6.0

* ▲ Increased the time of Gum Bind.
* ▲ [Small size] Increased the gum damage.
* ▲ If a Gum Net that is being deployed gets hit by a Gum Laser, neither of them will disappear.

### Version 7.0

* ▼ Reduced range
* ▼ [Medium size] Decreased damage.
* ▲ [Medium and large size] Shortened active duration.

### Version 8.1

* ▼ [Medium size] Decreased damage.
* ▲ [Medium size] Cooldown time has been reduced.
* ▼ [Large size] Cooldown time has been extended.

### Version 10.1

* ▲ [Medium size] Increased the time of Gum Bind.

### Version 11.1

* ▲ [Medium and large size] Hit reaction has been altered, opponents stagger longer.