Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27143816-20160216033644/@comment-25936766-20160612203157

PS: I just saw Amber's fight after posting that (posting this here because previous comment was too long). First, she used a staff, that's not Hand-to-Hand, that's close-quarters.

And she still got kicked and stomped, and the staff broke, which means her Aura skill is not really high, since otherwise her Aura should have prevented that.

And then after she got up she used nothing but Maiden Powers. Until Cinder glassed her ass down to earth.

At that point she did use Hand-to-Hand....but very basic, and not even half as "impressive and significant" as you think, Advocate. Good at most by Hunter standards, not good enough to deal with the number of Grimm at Beacon, and there's still in the air whether or not she knew the Aura techniques Ren used, cause she never used them.

There's also the interesting bit that she did not use her powers after Cinder glassed her, for some reason. But that's hardly relevant to this.