They are in an arena so range isn't a problem unless Emilia can fly.
How do they work? Are they magical?
No idea, not well versed in RWBY to know how large the arena is.
Should be, but they are not made of Ice for what her profile says
If the dragon has a fire that can destroy a 7-B "forcefield" (for the lack of better term) then what is he doing in a 8-B tournament
Minimal one
She can and she starts with Ice (throwing ice, creating soldiers of ice, etc), if normal Ice does not work, she would have to resort to AZ or Blood flowers if she is able to create a wound
Because that's just magic not AP
But can she use that when she's using her forcefields? And how does her AZ work? Because according to what I read from her profile she needs Puck to use AZ, who is restricted, although I probably misread or misunderstood
I do believe she could create snowstorms with puck but we havent seen that happen in canon unless she uses AZ, however she can freeze people to death instantly which, i am pretty sure, is a greater feat than creating snowstorms since flash freeze requires more energy. She would have had thermal fluctuation resistance with puck but that isnt possible here. However fire wont work on her anyway becuz she could easily dodge fire breaths of The divine dragon Volcanica who is far stronger and faster than drogon. She can also fight mid air by creating ice that she slides on and using athletics.
Freezing a human to death is only 9-A, while creating a snowstorm is 7-B, I don't know if that's what you mean. Likewise, Drogon is resistant to the ice magic of the White Walkers which can do both things.
Speed is equalized, and Drogon is many times larger than Volcanica and his fire breath can easily span several dozen meters. On top of that there is also the heat from his fire which can cover a city or a field in ashes quickly. Is that ice special? Otherwise Drogon would easily melt it, and if it's magical, how powerful is it? Since Dragonfire overcame the spells that protected the Wall from the Night King.
No, but Drogon has this feat where he was attacked by dozens or hundreds of Wights, or zombies, using 9-B weapons and they don't do much damage to him since he was completely fine afterwards
She should still have all powers under 8B otherwise it would be a literal stomp in Drogons favour. Actually whose idea was it to pitch the witch of frost against a dragon resistance to ice attacks?
So basically his defense against ice is to the point where it doesnt matter how strong her normal attacks are, the only wincons for Emilia would be AZ which should work here due to SBA. The 2nd wincon i see is if she manages to damage or break drogons skin and then use bloody flowers.
But how resistant/powerful is her ice and mana? Because a dragon weaker than Drogon easily destroyed a part of the Wall, which is basically ice protected with strong spells of powerful magic. And Drogon's fire breath is capable of turning steel into ashes, I don't know what temperature is necessary to do that but to give an approximation to vaporize iron you need 2862°C. Also keep in mind that Drogon will be using his fire breath pretty much all the time, so it will be difficult for her to have to dodge and attack in a precise spot to deal damage without first being incinerated
Where did you get the information about volcanica being smaller than Drogon? And if we are talking range then Volcanica has a range of tens of kilometers, while we havent seen him in combat much, its quite clear that he has island level of strength at the bare minimum due to scaling to Satella and Reinhard. Emilia obviously wasnt able to harm Volcanica but she did deflect his attacks and completely dodge it by prediction alone, she was far inferior in terms of speed so in this setup where speed is equalized she should have an advantage in that field. Also to consider that Volcanica is sentient so he is smarter than an animalistic drogon. Aside from that Volcanica can also fly and she was using parkour to attack and keep up with him
The name is literally the eternal frost which will stay like that till the mana disperses so i dont really see him being able to get rid of that. She also needs to aim for the mouth with an ice attack only once since we haven't ever seen her ice melt even against Sirius who uses fire magic so we can safely assume that would be applicable here as well and she could perhaps clog his throat with a lump of ice following it up with bloody flowers.
Volcanica's profile says that he is 15-16m tall, while Drogon is 84.792m.
I don't know how Volcanica's attacks work, but given the combat arena it's going to be difficult for her to dodge Drogon's fire breath when it can practically cover the entire arena, not to mention the increased temperature, smoke and ash.
Animalistic is not the same as Mindless, dragons have always been described as very intelligent creatures, even some maesters (who are among the most knowledgeable people in the verse) consider dragons to be more intelligent than men. I'm not saying that Drogon is smarter than them, but I want to make it clear that he is not just a dumb beast that only kills.
I will quote the power of the Night King's magic: "Bran Stark, who can see the future, stated that the Night King was going to create an endless night. During the Long Night, the Night King's winter and darkness covered the continents of the Known World, where the sun hid for an entire generation and people froze to death."
But how powerful is her fire magic? Because if it is weaker than Drogon's there is no reason to assume that
Pre-awakening Emilia according to @Nicetoderp
I think so. This battle is basically a magical fight between fire and ice in which fire resists ice but ice doesn't resists fire, among other details
