Talk:Battle Pages/Team RWBY vs. Team JNPR/@comment-27144409-20151105023800/@comment-4010415-20151109232647

Here's the thing about how Ruby used her Semblance in the food fight: She had a very long, straight, open stretch of ground to run uninterrupted, unimpeded, to build up speed and momentum. All the tables were cleared out of her way, it's a very long room, there was no one standing in her way, there was nothing to trip on, etc. She got a very large running start. That, and this was just a friendly food fight, so she didn't feel like she was in danger, thus no reason to panic.

In Mountain Glenn, she fell several stories through the ground from a sinkhole that she didn't expect. She landed on her back, was in a strange unfamiliar place, was suddenly blinded by a bright light from the doors the White Fang grunts opened, backed up literally onto the very edge of the roof, and then realized she didn't have Crescent Rose. By the time she turned around from that, the grunts were directly in front of her. So, here are the facts:


 * She lost a pretty good chunk of her Aura from the fall.


 * She was literally on the edge of a very tall building's roof, after having lost a chunk of Aura.


 * We've seen that she isn't invincible when using her Semblance. She's not some unstoppable bullet. Penny's weight messed her up, in A Minor Hiccup. So, it's not unreasonable to believe that if she tried to rush past those grunts, she was going to bump her shoulder into one of them, and that would throw her off-balance, leading to her stumbling and possibly falling over. That, or if she couldn't even get between them, she'd bounce off, stumble backward, and risk falling off the roof.


 * I've seen someone actually point out that Ruby punched in the wrong place on the White Fang grunt. She should've aimed for his diaphragm. Instead, she hit his abs, which probably aren't too shabby. They actually said in the director's commentary that Ruby is reliant on her scythe and not very good at hand-to-hand (not "unarmed," hand-to-hand, her skateboard skills with the lunch tray don't count).

As for the beginning of No Brakes when she fled from Roman, think about everything she had been through.


 * Fell several stories through a sinkhole.


 * Got punched so hard that she spun around by one grunt, and then the other grunt stomped on her face.


 * Roman was smacking her around for fun.

Her Aura was at a pretty low level. Add in the fact that we now have written source from Miles that Aura is fuel for Semblance.