Talk:Beringel/@comment-26512661-20160924173016/@comment-4010415-20160925041340

Seriously, at one point, Amber was having to fight them hand-to-hand while Emerald was using her Semblance to make the three of them invisible. Amber had to focus in order to see through the hallucination (hence Cinder, Mercury, and Emerald appearing and disappearing repeatedly).

She did a decent enough job against Mercury and Emerald while using her Maiden powers. She made them have to keep dodging her lightning, and she hit them pretty well with her frozen leaves. But then she was distracted from them by Cinder coming in from behind. It's kinda hard to juggle 3 opponents, but she did pretty well juggling 2. The reason Cinder was able to get to her was because she kept having to focus on Mercury and Emerald, while Cinder was behind her. That's how Cinder got her with the exploding arrows - she was distracted by Mercury and Emerald, and by the time she paid attention to Cinder again, it was too late.

A big problem with Amber is that she did not learn. How many times did she get hurt because she had her back turned to Cinder? Three. Three times.

The first time, she didn't know Cinder was there, and she managed to notice her just in time to try to attack her. However, Cinder is agile enough that she was able to leap over the fireball that Amber sent her way and knock Amber out of the air with glass.

The second time, she did know Cinder was there but was busy fighting Mercury and Emerald, and Cinder used exploding arrows to finish off Amber's Aura.

The third time? The third time, Amber made a huge mistake. She blasted the three away with wind, shot Mercury with lightning, shot an Emerald hallucination with a fireball, and then shot the real Emerald with a fireball. Then, instead of making sure Cinder was actually down for the count like Mercury and Emerald were, she picked up her staff and went to go stab Emerald. That was her downfall. She, once again, was not paying attention to Cinder. If she had checked Cinder instead of going to try to finish Emerald, she wouldn't have been shot in the back.

It's harder to juggle three opponents than it is to juggle two. It had nothing to do with the Maiden powers not being powerful enough and everything to do with how Amber used them.

I can imagine that, if all four Maidens got together in the same place and worked as a team, they'd be really hard to beat.