Two themes inspired the hapenings of my post. They are:

1. Logic would dictate that as long as physical contact was made, the laws of (meta?)electrical transfer would still cause it to recieve the charge regardless

2. My attack was prepped, and yours self-admittedly a quickdraw. This would naturally factor into how much the weapon could reflect on such short notice.

Edit: just out of curiosity, how can a physical object 'strike' a gas? I get its magic and all, but I'm legitimately curious if there is any method to that nadness. Gases are naturally effusive and dispersive. Hitting a gas would mean hitting every single particle of it at once. Gases also tend to mold around physical objects.