Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-14610890-20130807214535/@comment-66.116.33.1-20141103033753

I think Ruby and Yang are more or less tied for the strongest, because they both have the potential to be hugely overpowered in the right situations. Ruby showed during the food fight that if she has enough room to build up speed she can basically one-shot anything without even touching it, and Yang showed during the Paladin fight that if she's able to absorb enough energy from her opponent's attacks without being thrown out of the battleground she can basically match anything for strength. Plus both of them seem to have vastly superhuman strength, speed, durability, and endurance without even activating their semblances. Ruby's scythe must weigh a good 200 pounds and she swings it around one-handed like it's nothing, and she carried the nevermore up that cliff by her own strength.

Blake seems faster and more agile than the sisters, but physically weaker and not quite as durable. Her semblance is also very useful, especially when she augments it with dust. Weiss's glyphs are powerful but they definitely place a strain on her, and other than maybe agility she doesn't seem to have the superhuman attributes as the others. She's completely winded from running away from the beowolves in the forest while Ruby is fine.

However, in terms of pure fighting skill, I'm beginning to think Blake is actually the best. She's gone toe-to-toe with Roman twice and won the second time while her teammates lost to his henchmen. I think those years in the White Fang taught her more about combat than any of the others could possibly learn in school.