Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26259025-20150401152057/@comment-26259025-20150404130806

I see. I don't think it's that Weiss underestimates her opponents, she often doesn't have much choice but to fight them. Well, she didn't with the Lieutenant. She knew Blake wanted to go after Roman, and someone had to stay back and fight him. But, if you think about it, each of the fights inside the train were between rivals. Neo stopped Yang fronm getting Roman, Weiss loathes with the White Fang who return those sentiments, and Blake seems to have some kind of vendetta against Roman.

The suit of armour hasn't been proven to have actually happened, though I personally think it did (See my post on the speculation board for further discussion if you wish). But, assuming it did actually happen, Weiss must've had a pretty good reason for fighting it. It's quite natural to take a hit in a fight against something 4 times your size I feel.

The Boarbatusk fight did show some measure of arrogance on her part, I agree. But, that was quite deliberate. She wants so depserately to be taken seriously, and that made her lose focus. I'm going to go a little meta here by saying the fact she was disarmed was simple character development.

I suppose they're all Hunters in training, so slipping up from time to time is to be expected. But, I wouldn't attribute Weiss' mistakes to arrogance, or overconfidence. I just think it's a case of her weakness being presented. And that weakness is fraility.

Like I said, Blake's the only one who hasn't shown a glaring weakness in her fighting style. I'm sure she has one, but nobody seems to have exploited it thus far.