Talk:Banshee (Warframe)/@comment-66.87.82.89-20130814165550/@comment-94.195.87.164-20130902130540

Strictly speaking sound travels much, much better through solid materials assuming no specific insulation technology. For that reason, Flexibility is actually what you want; rigidity will transfer all the energy of the wave to the wearer of the armour, whereas a layer of reactive armour of some kind will flex, which will consume some of the energy of the shockwave.