RF41

Cinder brought Beacon to its knees because no one expected it to be possible. Her and the White Fang had been outgunned, outnumbered and frankly out powered, what with the Atlas military there and Ozpin and the other huntsmen, yet she'd still managed it and gotten away with everything she wanted.

Much of that had been cleverly taking over the Paladins and Knight units, but even that had been crazy - sneaking Roman on board those battleships and trusting him and Neo alone to overwhelm an entire ship's worth of crew. All in all, Cinder won because she'd attacked in a way that was so unexpected, so impossible, that her opponents hadn't even thought to plan for it.