So your defense of Victoria's intelligence is that she doesn't know what Lisa's power is so she shouldn't take Lisa seriously? In the paravers that seems... Unwise.
I mean. Lisa is literally lying about what her power is in this scene. So not taking her seriously about what her power is would literally be the correct option. Especially because I bet lying about being a thinker is actually super common. It's one of the only power types with mo obvious effects, thus the easiest to fake.
Lisa didn't want to. She took the risk because Coil has a gun to her head and this was part of her plan to get away from him.
And Vicky has no reason to think this. The number of people who get pressganged to join a gang must be very large. The number of people who get pressganged to join a team of petty thieves must be border nonexistent. So as far as Vicky is concerned this random maybe social thinker decided all on her own that robbing this bank in broad daylight was a fine idea. Then robbing the bank had predictable consequences.
Victoria has several weaknesses, any Undersider other then Lisa could have defeated Victoria, Taylor was only there because Amy was there and Amy was a hostage so Victoria was never going to get an arrest in the first place.
Her weaknesses are also pretty hard to deal with. Regent might be able to do something, I'd be more inclined to think she'd try to charge him, he'd make her twitch and them he'd get splattered on accident. Grue might be able to run away, he can't punch fast enough to get past her shield. The reset is really fast, bordering on instant from our perspective. If Bitch gets really, really lucky she might get past the shield, maybe. Remember, getting part her shield is hard enough that how it actually works is a secret. That means almost no one else has managed to get past it over Vicky's years as a very active cape. Also, if Amy gets skin contact Vicky also wins. Delaying helps them because Amy could get lucky and wins herself.
Plus it helps that in this situation there's just about no way Lisa and Taylor seriously hurt Amy because hurting your hostage is actually a lose condition for them, if you hurt the hostage too much say goodbye to leverage. Taking a hostage like this is a panic tactic and almost never ends well for the hostage taker. They may, possibly, get able to slowly back away. That's basically it, that's the only situation where taking a hostage like this ends well. If you need to let go at any point you are suddenly a much more dangerous person who needs to go down, now. Really Vicky just needs to care about them panicking right now, as long as the three Undersiders outside lost to
entire Wards team she wins. So she either needs to get them to surrender in this very, very bad situation they are in then take out everyone outside, or she needs to wait for the Wards to win so she has allies and then get them to surrender when it's 8 on 2.
