Honestly don't know what you're talking about with that veiled insults comment. I'm not prone to breaking character just to insult someone, what was said has nothing to do with you. As you are not Metz. 

And a man in perfect condition having trouble seeing, and then hiding behind a barrier of stone to fire off magic at his opponent? In what way does a man who has debilitating wounds in his feet being forced to jump into water mirror that? 

The two situations are near totally dissimilar.