User blog comment:SomeoneYouUsedToKnow/SYUTK's V5E10 - The Hottest RWBY Episode Ever(?) - Impressions/Recap/@comment-27144409-20171222190911

Yeah I'm mostly with you on the Kali scene. I don't have a problem with her knowing basic weapon handling given that Menagerie is assumed to be Australia + Grimm, but being unintentionally more suicidal than in Pyrrha's final fight is pretty idiotic. Pyrrha at least tried everything she could to put Cinder down. She still died, but she went down swinging.

Kali's plot armor must have KO'd her attackers off screen because leaving aside how holding up a tray is a valid combat tactic, when she had her head turned to the assumed rookie, we didn't even see shots that missed her. At least stormtroopers actually try to take shots when they think they can. Here, we have a named operative who has a confirmed (offscreen) bodycount get KO'd by an old lady.