User blog comment:Zolnir/RWBY Episode 8/General Reviews & Speculations/@comment-97.95.138.90-20130907062243/@comment-3146930-20130907103745

Ren is a very good fighter, but his weapons seem to do the least amount of damage in relation to everyone else. They didn't hurt the snakes at all and the Deathstalker didn't even seem to feel it. Ren had to literally jump on it and shoot at its tail point black before it started to do anything. I think he would have been better off using his Aura to just rip the thing off, or maybe use it to not hit a wall as hard as he did. Maybe he was tired and couldn't use it.