Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20181124081953/@comment-37320542-20181127225635

What I meant by fine control is non-battle situations. In battle, she obviously would prefer to use more powerful objects, but this is more of a parlor trick type thing that doesn't require that level of power.

Also, when I said it's not the best, I'd still eat with minimal complaint, but still, whatever. You can grumble and still eat.

Yes the excuse of not going out works, combined with surprise that Neo was even there. She was thrown off for a minute, but she decided to go and fight anyway, and moreover, she wasn't in any real danger, unlike Yang. Cinder was going at so little of her power that any success of Neo's, while impressive in its own right, is meaningless. Cinder wasn't in any real danger of losing, despite being thrown around and hit because no time did Neo land critical damage or knock her out, and she couldn't actually dent her aura or anything.