How can you block magic? Many times Old Sratch's attacks have been BLOCKED. Not fizzled, not dodged. Blocked. That doesn't make sense. I mean,what's the logic behind that?

Some attacks miss, some attacks fizzle, some attacks are blocked, some attacks are dodged. Some characters in the game have both blocks and dodges; some characters only have one or the other.

Exactly which animation happens to play depends on both the attacker and the defender.

But a miss is a miss.

Unfortunately, we are not in a position to create a custom animation for every combination of attack and defense, and so occasionally our animation system will play back something that doesn't make perfect sense.