Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-25038237-20140613123225/@comment-4725729-20140613215140

Tbh, I would rather he not have a bat, all it does is remind people of teen wolf fan pandering. The only two people who had bats were Scott and Melissa and b/c fandom is so drunk on Stiles they basically "stole" it and gave it to Stiles and now the Teen Wolf writers force it into scenes, some painfully obvious, others more or less better than the obvious ones. It's like enough is enough.

In any case maybe Stiles should not want to be a liability and learn some self defense, even if that won't work against something physically stronger than him, at least it'll look like he doesn't want to be a damsel in distress or that he wants to learn how to defend himself.

In all honesty though, before I really get into a rant.

I think you meant shouldn't Stiles use a bat made from rowan oak/wood.

Although Stiles should want to use another "weapon" other than a bat.

Besides, do we even know the extent of mountai ash.

It's effective against werewolves, and kitsunes, it can slow down an Oni, but is ultimately ineffective against them. And even though they were gonna use it in season 2 to keep Kanima!Jackson in the club, would it really have worked. Wasn't it the first time Deaton was dealing with this type of creature, didn't he imply it might or might not work? I don't remember.

But mountain ash is either effective on all K-9 weres and not every shapeshifter, or is effective to all weres/shapeshifters, in which case the mountain ash bat would be useless against anything else being drawn to Beacon hills by the nemeton.

Oops, I ranted again. Sorry about that.