Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-10380701-20141011082048/@comment-27043602-20151027061342

Azurebluecyan wrote: Monty and staff noted the reason Ruby sucked is cause she legitimately can't fight without Crescent Rose and it's something she has to grow out of. So I assumed it's a mental thing rather than a physical thing.

Essentially it's got nothing to do with aura and more with ruby either consciously or subconsciously not believing she can put up a fight without her weapon.

Maybe, it (does) have some relation to Aura, at least in a sense that: in order to channel it properly, you have to possess the '''will to focus it in an offensive manner. '''

Losing her weapon, as well as being deprived of sleep, must have thrown her focus off balance and thus (as you made mention) she subconsciously prevented herself from augmenting her strike at the time.