Board Thread:Versus Battles/@comment-26134263-20190504053618/@comment-26134263-20190504233113

Spinning Shield will definitely be enough to deflect the shells, as seen here. If he can do that against AOE fire than can affect up to 40+ enemies, then he can definitely do that against a few shotgun shells.

Even then Hypersense, battle instincts, and his general reactions would allow him to dodge effectively.

Zui Quan is actually pretty similar to Kirito's own fighting style, since he constantly uses tricks and mind games to get the upper hand. He's also used to opponents who are constantly unpredictable, such as Morte and every PKer in Laughing Coffin, so even though he's never fought someone who's drunk before, he's fought a multitude of people who were unpredictable and adapted to them.

The same could be said for Kirito since, again, he's used to adapting to unpredictable and unknown situations on the fly multitude of times. Changes in the Elf War Campaign, PKers who will do anything to win, new monsters past Floor 10, dungeons that can instantly kill those who are walking in it, people with new fighting styles and techniques (Morte, PoH, Eugene, Death Gun, Eiji, literally every single Integrity Knight, Quinella), etc..

Kirito was rather creative as well, considering he created a multitude of effective and practical Outside System Skills, abused everything he could in his version of SAO to his advantage, and everything else I talked about.