Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20190119003858/@comment-25936766-20190204014921

HotSwappableGaming wrote: 1) I didn't realize when AK's get upgraded their effectiveness increases 10x each time.

2) But semblance using your aura is limited. Against an army, they will eventually collapse. Adam has fought mooks, yeah, but like 20 at a time. Not 200.

3) Plus a number of them were trained soldiers. Remember it wasn't just the faunus, but the trained Mistral officers.

4) "A specific form of Plot Armor, this trope..." I literally pulled that out of the first line of your link...

5) And if Adam catches him off guard, like the stinger did, then the moonslice works without even having to deal with the aura. I would've responded much sooner, but I found a korean visual novel called Miracle Snack Shop and fell in love with it, been playing it all day.

1) Outdated AKs vs Upgraded AKs released over a semester later vs State-of-the-Art Atlesian prosthetic arm designed specifically for a Huntress(-in-Training) whose fighting style is all based around hitting things hard with her fist.

If it was merely 10x better then Atlas would've fucked up. Especially since with Yang's arm they don't have to worry about any AI or robotics, they just have to make the arm work and be able to take a huge beating.

Actually, there's something I thought about. Penny was unable to protect her hands or body despite having Aura. And Yang's metal arm got damaged even though it should've been protected by her Aura, and it wasn't as if her Aura went down after Adam used his Edge Onslaught - Max Power on her (we never saw any Aura flashes or flickers IIRC).

So I wonder, maybe the metal parts are not protected by Aura, like Cinder's Grimm arm. If so, even more reason to design Yang's prosthetic arm to be tough as fuck. Otherwise it may well self-destruct from the recoil if Yang does a Semblance-boosted punch with it.

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2) Adam went all out with his Semblance on Yang and he still had quite the amount to spare. And you overestimate the civilians: Note that they were afraid of just being there, and some were scared of the shield covering them from head to feet being hit.

Which is why I said Adam, if he actually tried, could take them down Dynasty Warriors-style. Those who tried to attack him, Adam can easily dodge, if not just kill them before they even tried anything, or just block and get more energy. The moment the blood spills and heads start to roll, the crowd panics. Even if someone landed a hit, it would be too weak to make a difference.

The only ones who could give Adam a challenge, were Sun, Blake and Ilia. And sure, that's still 3 vs 1, and Adam would've likely lost against them. But remember, the base of this topic was about Adam running away and abandoning his men despite being quite capable of putting a fight against the great majority of the people present.

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3) Yes. Who would be comparable to AKs in effectiveness against someone like Adam. Remember: mooks, even trained ones, are shit compared to even Huntsmen-in-training, and just 1 of those newbie Huntsmen can take down a dozen without breaking a sweat.

4) Which is completely dismissing the point.

5) Except when the stinger hit him, Hazel was completely and utterly distracted with his guard 100% down. There's no way Adam would get a surprise Moonslice on him in the middle of a fight, and he can't do it before the fight because either Hazel notices him first or he has no energy to use for it.