Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-25266931-20151215054344/@comment-26872876-20151222223620

The Kakapo wrote: Everyone keeps talking about how weak Ren is and how he doesn't have much Aura........

The guy manifested an energy sheild that could stop a king taijitu (using aura if we assume the overlayed dialogue from Pyrrha was directly realted). I don't think we've seen any of the other 1st yrs do something like that assuming that it's not a semblance thing?

But what I see as more important was how during the JNPR v.s BRNZ fight he incapacitates one enemy while distracting the sniper who from the start had been his teams biggest obstacle. In a matter of seconds and without firing a shot (I think?) he esssentially prevents 1/2 the enemy from fighting and sets up the situation for Nora to suprise grenade the sniper from their vantage point. Tactics are important.

Fight scenes are cool and all, but it would be awesome to see Ren matched up against some OP enemy and just be like "hmmm" and shoot the chandelier/overhanging rocks ending the fight.

He fired a few rounds, but it was hard to tell who he aimed at. I think he fired at the sniper so he could get in close on the shock Baton guy in order to take him out. But yeah, I think the BRNZ fight showed He actually has skill. I mean really the only time be takes a hit is when he's double teamed by ?Nolan? And the sniper. Though he later completely turns the tables on that same match up.

Honestly his biggest problem is lack of development. He doesn't do much, and has been incapacitated in 2 of the 3 battles he's been in... Which doesn't help him. However, we learned in the Live Stream that one still feels pain from taking a punch while his/her aura is active. Which means when he took hits from the Taijitu and Deathstalker during the Emerald forest, while his body was protected from serious injury, he still felt the pain of impact from both Grimm. Also explains the food fight with Yang considering how much force she used to blast him into the ground.

He definitely has offensive power as we saw with the taijitu. Nora's hammer with momentum only knocked it to the ground. Comparatively, Ren decapitated the same creature. He just hasn't had enough exposure to show everything he can do.