Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20190119003858/@comment-25936766-20190127151405

HotSwappableGaming wrote:

1) Yang shrugging off the moonslice was god-awful writing. We've seen how strong Atlas tech can be in the earlier seasons and the fact that yang shrugs it off felt disgusting to me....As a matter of fact, I'm pretty sure the only reason we have the black/red waves instead of the moonslice is so her arm could survive and make Adam look worse.

2) He shouldn't have died there. He was killed for the plot, in my earnest opinion.

3) So why does Blake knock him down so hard with a single punch whereas she now can't do SHIT against him this volume? Sure, the circumstances are different, but it really sounds like a case of terrible Adam consistency to me.

4) Also, you're implying that Adam was running from Sun and Blake, not the army of faunus, skyships, and other assorted allies.

5) ...You're saying Qrow isn't a great fighter? Hm.

6) and I don't think Hazel would win. Adam would easily deflect the hits, even it means he takes partial damage from doing so, but Hazel is slow.

7)  In real life the advantage of the strong over fast is that they need to land one good hit. With aura, and Adam possessing the range advantage too, I adamantly (get it?) believe he'd win. 1) To be fair...her arm is Atlas tech. But yeah, it would've been much easier to digest Yang blocking the entire Moonslice with just her arm if it was an actual slice and not a big wave of Edge that practically swallowed her while heating up the hair to the point heat haze was blatant.

2) I get the feeling he survived, considering Cinder's suffered worse and lived just fine. Though that nasty hit in the head might give him amnesia.

Which would be interesting. Imagine Blake and Yang down the line finding Adam somewhere again but this time he's just a normal guy with a normal wife running a flower shop.

3) That case was in itself an inconsistency, what happened to those fancy reflexes he showed off in the train? Not to mention Blake dodges in the same direction he's swinging so the blade would've still hit her.

BUT, that time, he rushed at her like a maniac. This time, he ambushed her and didn't fight like a berserker. So it makes sense he does better now.

4) Except he was. We've seen Adam defeat AKs, even if old ones, and these guys were literal civilians with at most 1 week of training. If Adam wanted he could and would've sliced down quite a number of Menagerians as if he was in Dynasty Warriors. And I doubt the MPD would've done much better than the civs against him.

Adam didn't even bother to put up a fight before running away. He just ran away the moment a monkey got a hit on him. He could've stayed and fought. Hell, if anyone else tried to hit him or shoot him, that's just more energy for him. But nooo, his face is too precious to get bashed like that, gotta flee.

5) Yup. When he's using his Sword at least. He barely stayed on equal ground with Tyrian, even with Tyrian being turned into a jobber in the middle of the fight. And Hazel beat him down badly in Haven; if Qrow wasn't on his knees or lying on the floor, he was being sent flying.

In fact, even his Scythe skills are rather questionable. He's only ever used the scythe on mooks, at best the Sphynx which is just a bigger mook (and he had RWBY's help at the time).

6) If Adam tried to block the hits, then he just gets sent flying against the nearest wall. Hazel hits very hard and he ignores all pain so he hits with all his might all the time. His punches are not like Yang's un-Semblance-boosted hits.

7) See, the thing is, this is not real life. Qrow was faster than Hazel too, and yet Hazel still kicked his ass hard.

And if you want to argue Aura, Hazel already won then. Nora outright noted that he recovered Aura faster than they could wear it down. Ever seen Sword Art Online? Ever seen that scene with the 5-so players slicing at Kirito non-stop and then he just passively regenerates all the lost HP? That's Hazel.

As for Range, when Hazel dopes with Lightning Dust, his fists shoot lightning when he punches. It's how he one-shot-killed Weiss's Queen Lancer. And between his Aura and Semblance, Hazel would just shrug off all of Adam's shots without flinching.