Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20190119003858/@comment-38271940-20190205191414

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote: 1) Well, too bad for you, but it's a legit and reasonable argument. Crescent Rose is one sharp little pole...

3) I seriously cannot see how anything I said has anything to do with that. And there is a big problem with this idea: The Battle of Beacon...

4) Except he still has blade beams. Which I also mentioned.

5) Completely wrong. They act either at the same time as him or before he even does anything, and their movements are different from Adam's.

6.1) Which Ren explained eventually becomes second-nature to turn on when needed...And Hazel is not a dumbass like Sienna.

6.2) Wrong. When he dropped down his guard, that was after he saw the army of Menagerians that walked up to Haven, as well as the Mistral police airships, and then the brawl that ensued. Not something particularly small that one would just casually ignore.

6.3) If the wiki says that then someone fucked up. He needs to turn it off to inject the Dust into his arms, but that's it. Once that's done he turns it on again, and it was outright noted that his Aura was active and regenerating fast back at Haven in the show itself after he had already doped with Fire and Lightning Dust.

6.4) Why would slashing down trees force Hazel to be blocky? Trees can't use Aura, they don't even have brains to know how. Hazel does, and Aura alone can help people survive literal explosions in the face, among many other things. Slashing down trees doesn't even work for intimidation against someone like Hazel. At best against bandits.

And Adam can't use neither leaves nor fallen trees as cover. At best he can jump on trees like a monkey, but even then, he is dressed in black and red, red that glows when he uses his Semblance, he completely fails at forest camouflage.

And chill with the Moonslices to the back. There is no damage bonus from back attacks against people with Aura up, this is not a videogame. 1. But it's not. What makes it sharper than any other bladed weapon? Adam cuts through robots with ease - Ruby cuts through tree's with ease. Unless we have Adam go tree cutting and it DOESN'T work, then the comparison is just BS. And a limit like that just goes against the entirety or what we've seen from this show. Which, granted, is kind of my original point, haha.

2/3. I said you very well might be right - the argument was over - I can't add anything one way or the other because there's just not enough information. As for Penny, it's just an observation and a hypothesis - based on the fact that Penny was built to be the savior of the world. Just having some fun, my friend.

4. "Just having some fun, my friend." I'm still an avid believer that Adam would lose, hands down, against the army of Faunus, the police, and the huntsmen that could still fight. Even without the huntsmen, I think he would lose. I think anyone in the show who isn't a maiden or magic would lose. And the reaction that Cinder's side has at seeing the police get involved reinforces this point.

5. I double checked, and you're right. Gives me an interesting theory about it on closer analysis, but apparently I can't have those here, anymore >.> But with that fact in mind, I think it'd be a very interesting fight, indeed.

6.1 Yeah, he definitely didn't have his aura off throughout the fight at the end of volume 5. It's stated here on the wiki and observed in the fight itself that he has to consciously use it and he's only blocking the pain. So, when he's using his semblance, he actually is a dumbass.

6.2. Combat all around, enemies behind him, and yet he didn't choose to have his aura up? Sounds like a hardcore amateur move.

6.3. You've been saying this fact about Hazel's massive aura regen, but it never states he's recovering quicker than he's losing it in the fight. Nora says his regeneration is better than anyone she's ever seen, and then Oz says they just need to get him to his limit. Sure, it's massive regen, but they're still depleting him.

6.4. Use your imagination! Why would he block tree's? Cuz they're coming down on top of him. It's not intimidation, it's distraction. And you can easily hide behind the leaves of tree's when there's enough of them (multiple tree's or just lots of leaves from them - referring to most tree's we've seen outside of winter in RWBY). Paint my whole body in bright red and I can do it! And you're thinking WAY too limited with all this! No tactic, no deceit, no cleverness, no environment, and no fun. All of these things should be included because they're a part of RWBY. At least, most of it. And the moonslices aren't dealing bonus damage to the back..."as a cover to have him lose sight, AND MOONSLICE TO THE BACK!" It's not about backstab bonus damage, it's about being a place where Hazel isn't going to see him and then the moonslice itself is hidden, hitting Hazel when he's not prepared and not consciously using his aura, and then you have two Hazel halfs. Though if his aura would regen the remaining half of his body, he'd have Adam beat hands down. 'Hail, Hazel Hydra'

I said it to 73.Anon.52, but if it helps you understand where my mind is going with this combat I can write it up in detail. I like writing and I think it would be a pretty cool sequence. And I think it keeps the Monty-style themes that I've said, earlier. Not that I can be 100% positive in that.

Oh, and also, as I think I've made it clear above I'm here to have fun with these arguments, not cause a fight. Not sure if I'm picking up hostility or just projecting it, but if you are getting sick of me, just say so. My tone is supposed to be friendly, like two friends arguing, and if I'm coming off as anything else then I apologize.