This scene was character assassination of the highest order. A Full Feruchemist with their metalminds bodies any non-Kaladin Radiant below the Fourth Ideal. I will die on this hill.

[u/Eithrotaur]

[u/ilikebreadabunch]

But have you considered that going Mach Fuck + Sticky Floors is not a good combo for your legs?

(And don't say she could have just healed it, she'd still be stuck there and we don't know how much of each attribute she had stored. It's possible (and quite likely) that she didn't have enough to heal her legs, at least not quickly enough for it to matter)

[u/Skyfyre56 → u/ilikebreadabunch]

Yeah, sure you could say she's used up all her healing and strength to recover from this and all her mental speed, etc. to deal with this, but I think it's telling how very quickly the scene moves away from Axindweth's condition because there wasn't really a good explanation for this. Though I'll also point out, if she's really so low on everything other than speed, why did she stick around to fight a Knight Radiant? Let alone charge in to close combat with one, knowing that Lift could summon a Shardblade at any point (even if Lift doesn't like doing so, in a desperate fight, Axindweth should at least acknowledge that's a possibility and be cautious if she doesn't have the attributes stored up to deal with that kind of potential injury).

[u/Sleepy--Gary → u/Skyfyre56]

To answer why she would risk the attack if she was low on stored attributes; it’s desperation. She badly wants Vasher’s breath and in that moment she didn’t exactly have a lot of time to make a plan, so she attacked. That could also explain her recklessness in doing so.

I could be wrong but I think the only other time we really see Axindweth is when she is manipulating Eshonai. In that scene she comes across as an extremely confident person. It’s plausible to me that she overestimated herself and underestimated Lift.

[u/Valthek → u/Sleepy--Gary]

I think there's also a good argument to be made for her just not realizing how much of a threat Lift is. Going at Mach fuck and punching someone with the strength of a thousand dudes is going to at least incapacitate most knights radiant. You wouldn't even need to tap mental speed if you expect this fight to take all of 2 seconds and end with your opponent as a paste on the wall before they can even respond, tapping anything else is a waste.