Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25266931-20170112165458/@comment-4010415-20170120065945

KNN005 wrote:

Sun's weapons being simplified is fine if that won't change the look of it without explaining it in show. Call it an upgrade. But if they keep avoiding it until they finally make the new rig or whatever, then the time may come where Sun's in a fight and it would make perfect sense to shoot but he doesn't ONLY because they dont have the rig yet. Once this season is over there's no excuse. There's like a good 5 to 6 months between seasons. Plus he never used the guns since season 1 so I know they've had plenty of time. So fingers crossed for season 5. It's not his weapon that got simplified. Monty worked on simplifying the rig. He made progress on it after volume 2, but I dunno if he actually finished it or not. Sun didn't really fight much in volume 3, even though he was originally supposed to be in more than just his team's tournament fight (after all, we were supposed to have a doubles round battle of Sun and Neptune vs Pyrrha and Nora, which apparently got completely removed from canon considering Sun's presence in the finals).

I know I've also complained about Jaune's slow progress in combat skills, but to be fair, we haven't seen him actually fight that much in a while, so he hasn't had much opportunity to do anything creative with his attacks. Versus Tyrian, they were outmatched and it was all they could do to try to avoid losing too much Aura to him.