Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20160207164218/@comment-70.188.26.72-20160208162315

Michael.halpern.52 wrote: I get why people don't like mimics like velvet apparently is, because in most cases they are used as "equalizer units" however that's not how I would classify Velvet if anything the Shnee summoning is more and equalizer ability than Velvet's, she can only replicate one aspect of whom she mimics, their weapons and with the skill to emulate their fighting styles. Which when you take semblances into account, makes her practically useless against opponents that use their semblances effectively, and at the end of the day, she's a glass cannon, she would not do well without her team to protect her and save her strength. It isn't that they hate mimics, but rather the expectation was much higher. During Breach, it seemed like Velvet's weapon was far more than a clone machine. Because really, how would wasting one or so weapons really be a problem. She ended up using RWBY's weapons. Which she, in theory, should easily be able to replace with a few more camera shots.

Hence the false expectation. People assumed some aspect of her weapon either overly destructive or once used had a drawback that actually would take a semester to rebuild... Which her camera weapon really doesn't seem to have.

And then others, myself included, did not like how we had SSSN, ABRN, CFVY, Neon, Flynt, Nora, Ren, and Weiss vs 2 Advanced Paladins (same ones Winter said RWBY would struggle against), but instead of 17 vs 2 teamwork, we see one character destroy one and pretty much cripple another while everyone else beforehand is shown to either be incapable of damaging it, or like Yatsuhasha get physically dominated. Which brings up the fact Velvet have the strength to force it's legs together, but Yatsu can't even block a punch... Does she lift more than Yatsuhashi,? Hence why she's the CFVY of this season's Breach.