Glad to here you enjoyed Dodge ball as a kid! as did i 
and that sounds like a pretty awesome idea. i am thinking of continuing this project after i have finished this term of college so i will look in to trying to implement some stuff like that because i think that could make a huge difference to my game. of course at the moment my skills within unreal are not great and im still learning about everything and i have had no practice with animating characters and all of that as well so it would take a long time to learn but if i manage to get it in one day i will defiantly post it and give you credit for the idea