Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-74.101.236.56-20170321065847/@comment-4010415-20170502233730

68.194.1.35 wrote:

Well if it did protect against those things everyone would be unkillable and the fights would be even harder to take seriously. Like how is your overshield supposed to protect you from drowning or suffocating? Your soul is gonna breathe for you? I seriously doubt that. Also Aura completely prtects against cuts, as we never see gash marks opening up on any character when they get hit by a blade. So I don't see you getting hurt from that. (Unless it is your soul getting cut) But they're not unkillable... as shown by Amber and Pyrrha. Yes, Aura protects them from taking damage from the hits and cuts they take, but... each person only has a limited amount of Aura. Once they run out, they need to escape and rest while it replenishes. When someone has no Aura left, then they can take damage - they can become injured and die.

This is why the tournament monitors the competitors' Aura levels and tries to call the loss while they still have at least 20% (team rounds) or 15% (doubles and singles rounds) of their Aura left.

This is why Cinder was able to have her arrow pierce Amber's back - Amber had lost what was left of her Aura, indicated by the orange shimmer that went over her body.

This is why Yang was able to damage Mercury's prosthetic leg - Mercury had 0% of his Aura left, indicated by the white shimmer that passed over his body as well as the scoreboard showing a 0 for his Aura level.

This is why Yang lost her arm - unfortunately, they decided not to show us that she had lost Aura before reaching the cafeteria, nor that she hit 0% with Adam's attack, but that's apparently what happened, according to Miles and Kerry. They said Yang had been fighting off-screen (indicated by her grunting like she got hit while on the phone with Blake, and her attacking a WF member outside the cafeteria, I guess), and that Adam's attack was so strong that it took out the rest of her Aura, and there was still enough damage left over that it cut her arm off.

This is why Cinder's arrows were able to pierce Pyrrha's ankle and chest - Pyrrha had lost the rest of her Aura, indicated by the red shimmer that passed over her body.

This is why Tyrian was able to cut Qrow with his stinger - Qrow had 0 Aura left, indicated by the dull red shimmer.

This is why Ruby was able to cut Tyrian's stinger off - Tyrian had 0 Aura left, indicated by the blue/purple/indigo (whatever) shimmer.

So they're not invincible. It's a matter of "Beat the shit out of them until their shield is down."