Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20181124081953/@comment-37471367-20181128144113

SirGauoftheSquareTable wrote: Alhazad2003 wrote: SirGauoftheSquareTable wrote:

The point she should've known what Neo was capable of, and thus try fighting with her swords right off the bat, since that's what she specializes in. But she didn't, and thus was on the losing end for most of the fight. And if Cinder didn't get jabbed in her bad eye, the fight would've gone on a bit longer. That's the point SYUTK is trying to make, why use her sword against a weaker opponent and not a stronger one? Seems quite nonsensical to be as well.

I'd say its because from the get-go Neo controlled the pace of the engagement and Cinder's heart wasn't into it, as opposed to with Jaune, she controlled the pace, she was just playing at a "duel", and she was on the offensive. Also, I wouldn't say she was losing so much as she was barely giving the bare minimum response and was trying to end things with the Grimm arm, all the while feeling to pressured to summon her swords. The moment Neo threw her out the window and didn't attack for a minute, Cinder finally summoned the swords, implying she finally collected herself. I'd say the only edge Neo has in CQC vs Cinder is agility.

I would like to add that there is a difference of opponent fighting style between the two. Neo uses CQC and her umbrella usually as a defense or bludgeoning. She’s only deployed her blade when the opponent was seemingly defeated. You don’t really need a bladed weapon to fight her hand to hand, especially when you have no intention of killing her.

Jaune, on the other hand uses, depending on the circumstance, sword and shield or a claymore. Why does she use a blade on a weaker opponent? Because said opponent is using a large sword, and using CQC on that is a terrible idea regardless of skill. Think about it. Confronting a great sword with your bare hands means you have to either dodge or use up precious Aura/powers, to block with your hands (Only one in Cinder’s case.)

I admittedly spend some time in college with a club that does medieval style sword fights for fun (Kind of LARPING). From that and what I hope is common sense, I can say you would be a complete idiot willingly fighting an sword wielding opponent barehanded. My point is that her choice of weapon is one that depends on circumstance, not threat level. If we went strictly by this using a sword=bigger threat logic some here are pushing, then her fights in V3 would mean Pyrrha was weaker than Jaune. We all know that’s not true.