Ahh, yeah, I think I see what you mean.
And I suppose the hydrokinesis does help him with things like coming to a stop and using the water created as he rears back a little as an attack. He can easily change the momentum so that it goes forwards instead of backwards, and since the water was just created by the water echo, that still sort of counts as using the water echo to attack.
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