Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25266931-20170224140119/@comment-4010415-20170228030329

KNN005 wrote: 1) What? No I mean the swings he did in the 4th intro? He's not swinging like a guy who mastered bushido. It's nothing like the awe-inspiring stuff of the Black Trailer. [...] I feel like now that Oum is gone Adam's cool fighting style is in danger. And by extension, I feel like ALL cool fights are in danger. Has there been ANY COOL FIGHTS THAT SURPASS NO BREAKS? ANY?!

2) In all of season 4 the only fight I love no matter how many times I watch it is Qrow vs. Tyrian. In season 3 almost every fight is short IMO and leave very little lasting impression. But I will say Qrow vs. Winter was good, Merc vs. Coco and Yatsu was good, and Neo & Torch vs Ruby. Oh and Amber vs Cinder's trio was decent. Not GOOD. But I respect it. But like I said, all short. Season 2 had No Brakes and Paint the Town, Season 1 and Players and Pieces and Sun vs. Torch.

Now what does that tell you?

1. When Adam and Blake ran into each other why didn't he just wail on her like a monster?

2. Why doesn't Qrow use his scythe almost the whole fight with Tyrian?

3. Why hasn't anyone used any of the aura barrier or aura bomb moves from the earlier seasons? 1. Oh, derp, I had a brainfart. Uh, the way he was moving in the volume 4 intro didn't even look human, to be honest. It was really... awkward... almost like Blake was just having a nightmare where Adam was some kind of creepy monster you'd expect to see in an exorcism movie. I mean, did you see how his head was positioned?? There's a reason I didn't take a screenshot of him during the Blake part of the opening. There was literally no shot where he didn't look awkward and derpy as fuck.

Some of the fights in No Brakes were Shane's doing, btw, not just Monty's. I know that Shane did Pyrrha vs Mercury and Yang vs Neo. But he's gone, so... y'know.

2. It tells me there's a pattern in where their strengths are in fight scenes. 4 vs 4, they're not that good at because they have to keep up with 8 characters in one place to keep up with them fighting each other. You especially have the fact that they wanted the main character teams to win the team matches and be awesome at it, but they did that at the expense of the one-off teams. There's also the fact that, in each team fight, the characters were all over the place, leaving the choreography disorganized, but this can be chalked up to the fact that JNPR and SSSN didn't use as much teamwork or work as cohesively as Team RWBY did toward the end of their fight.

Multiple people vs Grimm has also always been a bit slow. Volume 1's Group vs Grimm fights stood out because of the teamwork that the characters executed to deliver finishing blows to the Death Stalker and the Nevermore. But fights against Grimm may never be able to stand out as much as fights between people because Grimm can't carry out the incredible feats, thinking, and oftentimes dexterity that people can.

I won't argue that the fight choreography quality has gone down, but since the animation team has had two years of figuring things out and have moved to a better animation software - one that actual professional animators use - they'll get the hang of it and improve.

1. Because he didn't wanna instantly kill her right then and there? I'm not convinced that he even wanted to kill her at all. I'm pretty sure that when he "tried" to cut her head off, he knew that she would move out of the way. He just probably didn't expect her to manage to take Yang with her.

2. Because using his scythe against Tyrian would be STUPID.

I'm pretty sure people have been over this before! Tyrian is incredibly fast and agile and fights up close with a pair of weapons with two blades on them, meaning he can slice in either direction with both hands, and he does it really quickly. A scythe would be stupid in that situation because using a scythe puts your blade far away from you, which is useless when an opponent is fast and agile enough to get around, over, or under the blade and get close to you. Qrow was in a position where he kept having to use his sword to block, and the sword's blade made a much better shield than the scythe's pole.

Scythes are not automatically the best weapon in the series.

3. I'm under the impression that those Aura barriers and Aura bombs are a specialized skill that only people who have actually put more training than average into their Aura. It seems like the majority of Huntsmen and Huntresses do not train themselves in the level of Aura control required to make Aura barriers and do the Aura bomb move. Ren and Fox, however, have put that amount of training into it, and Cinder can do the Aura barrier because she likes to use raw Dust, and according to WoR: Dust, it takes a level of discipline and skill to be able to use raw Dust like that.