Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25266931-20170112165458/@comment-10380701-20170127052639

Let's put it this way.

You and me, we're playing chess. I'm playing the black piece and you're the white piece. We can't see each other's piece.

You decide to focus on defending your King by moving your pieces to form a near-perfect barrier against me.

I send a few pawns to bait you into attacking them, while sending another pawn penetrate through where defenses are thin and allow me to promote it into a higher ranking piece. Using this upgraded pawn, I proceed to cut through your defenses and do checkmate.

That's kinda what happened to Oz. He may have prepared for Salem doing something but he may have assumed the target was the relic. The main reason he wasn't in the offense either is because he likely doesn't have proper intel against Salem. Again, without proper knowledge, attacking something is likely suicidal.

Salem is fucking good at hiding her presence if only the Oz Posse knows about her.

So predicting how to defeat her *is* gonna end with us scratching our heads, because we literally don't know how she operates, her strengths, her weaknesses. Nothing.

If you wanna simulate a similar scenario, this situation is akin to the last quarter of JoJo Part 3. The main antagonist has an ability that no one knows how to deal with and he uses in ways that makes it more reality warping than it appears (Spoilers: It's just Time Stop) thus making him a bigger threat due to the uncertainty of what he can really do.

Once they learn what it is, dealing with him became easier.

Until then, we literally have nothing to go with so Salem literally appears unstoppable. We have no strengths to exploit, no weakness to exploit, we don't even know her ultimate endgoal outside of guesswork. Outside of her usage of Grimm, we don't even know how she fights.

No matter how many speculation we make of them, it will just be speculation and without concrete facts about their capabilities, it'll remain as that.

For all we know, Hazel is double-jointed and he can punch backwards. :V