"Less than it should, more than you'd think," Shepard replies, the cadence lending the phrase the clear taste of a joke gone so stale and shared by so many that it's gone from humor into lesson, "Best use is against big mechs. It's too slow to keep you going, but cutting down their shields makes finishing the job a lot easier."

She doesn't bother to argue with never have. Nobody's ever done anything, until the day they do; but it's true enough to say, that Shepard doesn't know Aloy. Still, if she had to guess, and at the moment she does, she'd say that the kid has never met anyone outside of childhood that she really, truly needed to rely on for guidance. She's smart, driven, and seems either competent or over-confident. But then, that second one tended to kill you, one way or another.

Either way, Solvunn was a long ways away; technically Aloy was none of Shepard's business, and not her problem.

"Not that it matters. You won't meet a lot of mechs on this planet, even if we had that kind of tech to put up against 'em," It's still fun to imagine, watching Aloy squaring up against the target, "Let me know when you get bored, and wanna try something a little more practical. Or just take your pick, you're a big girl."