Talk:Raven Branwen/@comment-34724302-20180602122252/@comment-4010415-20180606042026

Rule of Cool ruined Breach.

Honestly, if they actually balanced out who gets Rule of Cool at what times, it'd be better. Let the villains have Rule of Cool once in a while.

One problem Monty had is that he seemed to have an aversion to letting the good guys get their asses handed to them, hence Breach. According to Shane, Yang was actually supposed to go toe-to-toe with Adam in Monty's vision. I actually prefer the version where Yang rushed in blindly relying on her Semblance, only to get curbstomped in a split second. It showed Adam as a dangerously strong opponent, it made Yang's trauma even more believable because it came as a sudden shock, it showed how Yang really was relying too much on her Semblance to be her Automatic Win button and allowed Tai's speech about that to actually hit harder, it helped at least a little in making Blake running away make sense, etc.

Especially in that last point in my list! If Yang had actually managed to go toe-to-toe with Adam, Blake running away due to feeling like Adam is a huge danger to her friends wouldn't have made sense anymore because Yang would've actually been putting up a good fight against him. However, Yang didn't even get to finish her first attack before he cut off her arm and knocked her out.