Sniper and Slab the Killer

[dmitrijsadlo]

Sniper - During your turn, you may discard 2 BANG! cards together and target a player: this counts as a BANG! but it may only be cancelled by 2 Missed! cards.

and

Slab the Killer (4 life points): players trying to cancel his BANG! cards need to play 2 Missed! cards. The Barrel effect, if successfully used, only counts as one Missed!.

When there is Sniper in play how does Slab the Killer attack in this round?

I see 2 options:
1/Slab uses 2 Bang cards and the opponent needs a total of 4 Missed (or cards with the same effect, i.e. succesful Barrel, green Missed-like cards) in order to avoid the loss of 2 life points.
2/Slab uses 2 Bang cards and the opponent needs only a total of 2 Missed (or cards with the same effect, i.e. succesful Barrel, green Missed-like cards) in order to avoid the loss of 2 life points. This is because Sniper constitutes a new type of attack which counts as a BANG! - and you only need 2 Missed to avoid Slab's BANG!.

Which one is considered to be right according to the rules? Or is there a 3rd option?
I, personally, consider the 2nd option to be the right one.
Thank you for your insights.

[Suzy Lafayette]

They are both wrong. The card says "it counts as a Bang!" meaning two bang! discarded together do one shot and not two. Nothing else.

The official FAQ explain how this card works:
1- you may discard how many -2 bang! cards- you want or are able to. They are not played bang! (so limited to one shot except Volcanic) but just discarded.
2- for example if you have 7 bang! you can do one normal shot and use Sniper 3 times.

In your example Slab with 2 bang! can decide:
- use his ability with one bang! as usual
- use the Sniper, discarding the two bang! having the same effect

of course the second one it's useless

[dmitrijsadlo]

Thanks for clearing that up. There is something a bit wrong in the Czech translation.