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ChishioKunrin wrote:

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3. And you're only thinking about the Human/Faunus enemies here, but what about the Grimm? In The Next Step, Jaune actually got the Petra Gigas Geist's attention and ran around the area with it chasing him so that Nora could charge up Magnhild's upgrade and Ruby and Ren could attack it. This is called "kiting", a strategy used by tanks against enemies that deal hits that do so much damage that evasion is a better tactic than mere defending. He doesn't necessarily have to stand still fulfill his role, he can also move around. Against Grimm, tanking for your team can work. And I was saying that not all of the Human/Faunus characters are fast. They're faster than us, yes, but that doesn't mean that a tank will be unable to defend against them, since the tank will also be faster than us.

Yatsuhashi is slower, by RWBY standards. Sure, he swings his giant sword faster than someone in our world would be able to, but he still swings it fairly slow by RWBY standards.

Coco is another character who's not exceptionally fast by RWBY standards, especially since the gun form of her weapon forces her to stand in one spot and turn the gun side to side. That's why Yatsuhashi stood next to her while she did that during their match. He was there to use his sword as a shield and try to protect her because she couldn't adequately protect herself. However, he swung his sword too slow, and Mercury was able to dodge it.