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In the time of comparison to Railgun moving his cannon to firing into Clutchfire’s joint and Clutchfire readjusting his momentum and direction of the kick is decently significant. Railgun can get off the shot faster than Clutchfire can bring the leg back down. Though assuming it is more of a front kick, even bringing it back down he would likely miss Railgun altogether without thrust himself forwards into a stomp (perhaps even losing balance). Especially when grabbing a shovel at the same time.
Given Railgun’s previous feats and actions, he has fired off his shells at point blank range before and been fine. Even if Clutchfire managed to his kick down towards Railgun that fast, the resulting explosive shot at the joint itself would have little affect on Railgun himself. For Clutchfire however, even if his foot was not removed, the damage would make balance difficult. Slamming weight down on it may do additional harmful damage and break it there, but most certainly throw the big lug off from his next attempted attack.
Which the use of the shovel in of itself, just taking the kick into account, is largely unfeasible. This does depend on the type of shovel, which is unspecified if it a small one handed shovel or the longer two-handed kind. Assuming Clutchfire can still grab the weapon during the kick, the followup attack would need him to bend down significantly in order to hit his target given the size disparity. Especially with a one-handed shovel, which would definitely get Clutchfire’s face into blasting range. The longer shovel, because of the motion of the kick, would also make him bend down a ways. Although the weapon has a longer reach, if Railgun is within range of the kick hitting him coming back down, the forward slam of the shovel would need to be adjusted almost to the same level as the one-handed shovel for it to work.
If Clutchfire continued this motion anyways and/or was in the process of doing it before he could recognize the damage to his foot, the attack with the shovel would definitely throw him off. Too much weight on the damaged foot, breaking it, and likely causing him to stumble forward.
Regardless of the case, Railgun blasts the joint of the leg connecting the foot before it can come back down on him. He then rolls to the right to avoid the leg and incidentally also avoids the oncoming shovel in the process. He then swiftly fires his explosives shells into Clutchfire’s face to end the simulation’s life.
He used his damaged foot to kick the shovel up into his hand, leaning heavier on the other foot as he spun round in a solid attempt to clock the pesky Railgun anywhere he could hopefully distracting his feet blasting plans.