Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-34633327-20180105193053/@comment-34633327-20180107221404

SpiritedDreaming wrote: Ruby literally said “Oscar needs help” and Ren stood up to go help him, but no one remembered Nora is pretty much immune to lightning. Technically not Immune, she just absorbs it. Every time we've seen her hit by lightning, she still seems to feel a slight impact before absorbing the energy. Like when Nolan's cattleprod zapped her and she flinched for a good 2 seconds, or when Ruby fired a Lightning Bullet at her and the impact knocked her off her feet, and it took her a second or two to get back up.

Plus, even if she is immune to Hazel's lightning, she isn't immune to his strength. One of Hazel's punches sent Qrow flying off screen, and based on his angle, probably into a wall or towards the roof. So if he punches her, it will still heart like a bitch.

Ren actually does seem to be the better choice this time around:

1) For one thing, Ren can't do much defending for Jaune and Weiss. He has horrible stamina compared to Nora, and Storm Flower may be good at firing bullets, the blades aren't large enough to reliably block strikes. Nora has good stamina however, and Magnild's hammer head can knock into enemies that try to get too close, while her grenades can dissorient them.

2) Ren also has a similar advatage against Hazel that Ozpin has. Speed. Ren is a very fast and agile fighter, whereas Hazel is a behemoth with only moderate speed. Considering Hazel can't hurt Ren if he can't hit Ren, speed would seem better. Nora on the other hand though is only fast when its for the sake of comedy. Other than that, he speed seems to be average.

3) Based on their fight with Hazel before he roided up (Including the opening seeing as the animation was recycled), Nora wasn't doing to well. Hazel easily caught her hammer and tossed her away, meaning he's strong enough to catch a heavy hammer swinging in motion with no visible negative effects to himself, without the use of Dust infusion, so imagine her trying to land a hit on him when infused with dust. Conversely, Ren actually had him on the defensive when he was attacking. Yes, Ren's blades didn't hurt him, but it's still better than what Nora did.

It's one thing to tank a hit. Its another thing to not get hit at all.