Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-34633327-20180120015359/@comment-4948848-20180122025912

KingFubuki92 wrote: Dude, look at Hazel's arms. They're deflated during that scene. He's out of dust. And while his body can ignore the pain, it still is damaged from doing so much. Hazel couldn't fight at that moment. And considering that it was then 3 vs. 7 (Ozcar was barely moving), and they were all exhausted, they were cornered by numbers alone.

It's not undermining their strength. Ozpin said Hazel has a limit. He just reached his Dust limit.

The only one who could turn things in the bad guy favor at that point would be Cinder. It was obvious to them by that point that Adam and the White Fang had failed and it only was a matter of time before reinforcements for the good guys showed up. Once it was clear Cinder was not going to show up and Yang had arrived Mercury was calling for retreating. It would have been interesting to see what would have happened had Sun, Ghira, Kali, and Ilia had shown up before Yang did.