Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-410526-20161022144159/@comment-5217560-20161025172033

XDex wrote:

WarrenWitch wrote:

I do hope the next maiden proves extremely tough to capture and/or kill. It was said seeing Amber go down so quickly and easily. Not to mention, I just love seeing super powerful women exercising their gifts. I have the feeling that the established strength is pretty representative of maidens. They aren't gods, their aura can be depleted like anyone else. Amber more or less successfully fended them off 3v1, though it was close. She just let herself get distracted after she had knocked them down. Then Pyrrha put up a fight that seemed fairly close 1v1 against a worn-down Cinder. So it seems their powers just give them a bit of a boost. Amber + powers was a good match for 3 fairly young fighters. Cinder's inexperience + power was a pretty good match for perhaps the world's best student fighter, fighting after Ozpin.

Actually now that I think of it, Pyrrha and Ozpin together may have stood a chance. One after the other, they weren't able to do enough, but at the same time they probably would have been more effective than sequentially. The way that Maidens were built, it seemed as if they were godlike beings. I'm by no means saying that three skilled individuals with a plan couldn't take one Maiden down, but I can't help but think that if Amber had displayed the same level of ferocity that Cinder had in her fight with Ozpin, the outcome of the 3v1 fight would have been different.