Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-24718692-20140322030224/@comment-82.12.156.248-20140322080715

The speed in general makes it seem like Weiss, Adam and Blake are naturally, incredibly fast. Ruby, without using her semblance or Crescent Rose's recoil DOES seem slower than Weiss but Ruby + Super Speed + Crescent Rose is much faster than Weiss + Glyphs. It seems to me like in terms of mobility in general Ruby and Weiss (and Blake) are pretty tied.

In terms of strength, I wouldn't call Ruby strong, we've seen Yang's strength too and it easily outmatches Ruby so either passive semblances are hereditary (and they both have super strength), the theory that there is more to her semblance than speed is true (meaning she also has increased strength, though not necessarily super strength), people in general have exceptional strength OR the strength Ruby has is actually just a misinterpretation of Crescent Rose's design. CR may actually be lightweight and if you pay close attention IT seems to flow around Ruby not the other way, there are minor things like the blade rotating or the fact that she often collapses it to improve maneuvrability and we have no idea exactly what the blade is made out so her chopping down a tree may actually be a feat of CR's toughness and sharpness.T

The wikia is clearly wrong here, Ruby, by definition of her semblance, the fastest character in the show, and it shows clearly, strength wise, just because we haven't seen Weiss slice through a tree o wield an inappropriately giant sniper scythe doesn't mean she's not strong enough too and all signs point to Ruby not have unnatural strength.Even if her semblance, as mentioned before isn't just super speed then she's STILL weaker than Yang, so unless she has super strength too (which would be interesting with the whole genetic influence on semblance, especially considering White Cloak has that same rose petal effect though white which could be another hint at shared blood). It all just seems like stretching every possible truth though and at the end of the day Ruby is the fast one that wields a giant scythe that she often uses as a shotgun. She's not the strongest character and there's no actual evidence to suggest that Blake, Weiss, Pyrrha, Nora, Jaune or Ren aren't equally as strong, and no explanation as to why she's that strong if it isn't just born of nature and so generalisable to the other characters..