Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20190119003858/@comment-25936766-20190206031329

HotSwappableGaming wrote: 1) But it's not. What makes it sharper than any other bladed weapon? Adam cuts through robots with ease - Ruby cuts through tree's with ease.

2) As for Penny, it's just an observation and a hypothesis - based on the fact that Penny was built to be the savior of the world.

3) And the reaction that Cinder's side has at seeing the police get involved reinforces this point.

4)  It's stated here on the wiki and observed in the fight itself that he has to consciously use it and he's only blocking the pain. So, when he's using his semblance, he actually is a dumbass.

5) Combat all around, enemies behind him, and yet he didn't choose to have his aura up? Sounds like a hardcore amateur move.

6). You've been saying this fact about Hazel's massive aura regen, but it never states he's recovering quicker than he's losing it in the fight....

7.1) Use your imagination!

7.2) Why would he block tree's? Cuz they're coming down on top of him. 1) ................I'm going to ask you a very simple question, since it seems you have no idea of what trees are. Why do you think that, the great majority of the time, to cut a tree, people have to use chainsaws or hit them repeatedly with axes?

If you don't know why, then google it. If you do know why, then consider that Ruby did it in a single swing with no fucks given while doing it. A robot like the AKs, especially the old ones, would be much much weaker and easier to cut than the average tree. In fact, even cars are easier to damage like that than the average tree.

2) Yes, she was built with that purpose. And here's the version without the dramatic wording: She was designed to be a robo-Huntress. The power and efficiency of a Huntsman, the skill and precision of a machine, and the replaceability of a robot compared to a person.

Robots are good from the get-go if designed right, Atlas specializes in mass-producing them, they are (supposed to be) less squishy than humans, they can be designed to suit your needs, and if one goes down you just make another that's just as good as the last if not better. Penny was just the prototype of this plan.

3) I'm ignoring the rest of that paragraph because you basically just gave up. "No, you're wrong" is your point there in a nutshell. So I'll just focus on this sentence.

Consider this: The original plan was to get in Haven, take the Relic, then let Adam blow it up, all before anyone knows what happened. Then Cinder changed it to inviting Rainbow to Haven to kick their asses before taking the Relic, out of a hate-boner for Ruby that she then forgot about because Jaune apparently was more important to her.

Then suddenly an entire army of Menagerians shows up along with MPD airships. That in itself is a huge wrench in both versions of the plan. Managing to take the Relic and leave in peace, let alone doing that while still fighting Rainbow, inmediately became much harder due to something that no one in Haven expected.

Imagine you're playing a stealth game, doing fine, then suddenly the whole room gets full of enemies. Out of nowhere the difficulty rised. You can still win, but it's gonna be harder and not due to something you could expect. That is what happened there.

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4) Everyone has to consciously use it. But once you get the hang of it, it becomes second-nature, in Ren's words, to turn it on and keep it on when you need it. Hazel is not Oscar.

And why is he a dumbass when using his Semblance? His Aura still blocks damage like it always does, he's already a tough motherfucker, and his Semblance blocks pain (which Aura doesn't do), meaning he not only can shrug off a hell of a beating, he doesn't even feel it, making it easier for him to keep going.

The very reason he can dope like he does is because of that. Dust injected like that + fire and lightning running through your veins and shit would hurt like hell. But he doesn't even feel that, so it doesn't make him flinch even a little bit.

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5) To be fair it was, in context, something that would be surprising (Maybe he was just trying to process what was going on and what it implied. His lack of reaction doesn't help). And none of the Menagerians or WF were paying attention to him, and he outright refused to help Adam.

Still stupid, but not "unbelievably unreasonably stupid".

6) True, just rechecked. Still, the fact that his Aura regen is noted to be absurd says something about how great it is, like how Jaune was stated by Pyrrha to have "more Aura than average" (paraphrased).

And note that he has no weapons or shield or armor, he's taking all hits directly. And that's assuming the Dust he doped with wasn't causing extra damage that would deplete his own Aura. Adam, meanwhile, blocks it with his sword, and everytime he got hit directly he either got taken down for a moment or he ran away.

7.1) No. If you need so much imagination to prove why your point works, then that just means your point doesn't work.

7.2) ..........Have you ever heard this word called side-stepping? Or hell, considering his strength Hazel might well just grab it and throw the tree around.