User blog comment:SomeoneYouUsedToKnow/SYUTK's V5E11 - Being Weiss Is Suffering - Impressions/Recap/@comment-34633327-20180103231431/@comment-34633327-20180105054313

1) I'm saying the minute they got down there, why didn't they activate it, and leave it on? If this hypothetical defense mechanism can be activated at will, why not just turn it on the minute they get down there, ya know, better safe than sorry? Even if they didn't think no one followed them, why not put it on in case say, a Grimm somehow made its way down there, the room started caving it and threatened to damage the pod, etc. Why not turn it on just to be safe?! I mean, his only line of defense was fucking Jaune! Even if Jaune was paying attention, he'd still get his ass handed to him! Name one character Jaune managed to beat on his own at that point, one human character! The closest he got was two different Ursa, and even then one of them he had to get help from Pyrrha! That is like no damn security! Actually, its worse, because if Jaune gets hurt, then there is the risk Pyrrha breaks out mid transfer to help him, like she broke out when Cinder hit him (luckily for her the transfer was cancelled). That's not security, thats a liability!

2) Concede on the blocking aspect, but not concede on the Glynda Aspect. Glynda's semblance lets her manipulate objects, yes, but we never see her use it on anything aside from rubble and projectiles. Why didn't she just use it to grab Cinder out of the Bullhorn during their fight in Volume 1 and restrain her? Rewatching that fight, there are numerous instances she could have tried to do such, but instead she focuses more on attacking the ship. So why didn't she just grab Cinder then? Maybe her semblance can't be used on people?

3) Okay, point conceded.

5) Even if Ozpin has the speed aspect beat on Cinder, there are still two other factors to account for.

1) Ozpins inability to do anything until the fucking last minute. I mean, even during the damn Fall of Beacon, he didn't get off his ass until right before the Dragon woke up. Why didn't he immediantly go looking for Pyrrha, or try calling her! If time was of the essence, why did he wait so damn long?! Would it not have more sense to tell Ironwood during their talk "Grab Ms. Nikos and meet me at the tower. We have to do this now, we can't take any chances!" But no, he just tells Ironwood to use his army, the very army that later fucked them in the ass. I can understand trusting the army, but not telling Ironwood to help him out with Amber, the more important factor, seems dumb as shit, especially when he and Pyrrha are in the same damn location!

Or when he was controlling Oscar, he sent Qrow on a mission to recruit members and focused on "training" the others and Expositing like there is no tommorrow. When, seeing as how Yang went to Raven's camp and could tell him the guys there are weaker than V1 Jaune, they should have just left to raid the camp immediantly! Raven and Qrow are equal in fighting prowess, so that leaves Vernal, and one Maiden versus 4 Relatively Skilled Students (Nora, Ren, Yang, and Weiss), 1 Newbie Oscar but with Ozpin in control, and two schmucks with moments of good skill (Ruby and Jaune), the battle would be difficult but manageable. But what does he do? Wait for the rest of the damn month to "train" and go meet with the obviously untrustworthy Leonardo!

He'd probably let Glynda, Ironwood, and Qrow handle the fighting, and thinking about it, their styles don't neccessarily mesh together.

Glynda focuses on bombarding the enemy with rubble and deflecting their projectiles, but her semblance has a large spread range. She also uses Telekinetic Strikes on slower moving targets like the Grimm and robots.

Qrow focuses on fast strikes and blasting his opponents when they're off guard, or firing when they are on the move. He only ever brings his Scythe out though for one hit slashes like with the Griffon.

Ironwood focuses on shooting the minor enemies why just striking the ones closes or bigger (Can't get a good grip on his style considering he was in all of two fights, one of which he showed up for at the last second).

On paper it could seem as if they could cover each others weaknesses (Glynda keeping the enemy in place while Ironwood and Qrow rush her), but its actually the opposite. With Glynda's semblance it risks hitting allies if using rubble, and the telekinetic strikes may be able to incapacitate robots, but aren't as useful on a fast moving opponent. Qrow may move fast but if his foe is just as fast, it makes it harder for him to hit them, and his speed puts him at risk of being hit if fighting someone of equal speed (It's why Ruby didn't snipe Tyrian during Qrow's fight with him, she didn't want to risk hitting Qrow). Ironwood's hand cannon suffers the same issue as Glynda's telekinetic strikes, in that there isn't a guarentee it would hit Cinder, and risks hitting Qrow, and his melee style puts him at a disadvantage if he can't hit his opponent. Then of course, all this is compounded by....

2) Qrow's fucking asanine semblance. This thing is Murphy's law incarnate. Even if logic states something shouldn't happen, this thing fucks Logic over big time. For example, the Pillar that nearly crushed Ruby. She didn't even hit the building, it just chose at that moment to fall over! This in turn caused Qrow to save her ass, and get his ass grazed by Tyrian and then poisoned!

So, lets factor this dumb semblance into the above analysis of their fighting styles. Ironwood's bullets could hit Qrow in the Ass, Glynda's rubble can hit the others or even get deflected into the pods, Qrow could lose hold of his blade like when fighting Tyrian. Yes it should affect Cinder too, but more often than not the damn thing hurts the heroes more than the damn villains!

So even then, the fight comes up risky for the heroes. In the former, it was Ozpin vs. a Full Powered Maiden, a newbie, but one nonetheless. In the hypothetical latter, its a Half Powered Maiden vs. three teachers with conflicting styles and a Diabolus Ex Machina incaranate, and one dumbass bystander in the back.