Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24534644-20170124093450/@comment-24534644-20170125233438

Hard to say, but the concepts are definitely interesting.

I myself have a question for the lot of you. A common trope with villains, one that is exercised in RWBY from what we've seen so far, is for the villain(s) to have superior abilities to the heroes, yes? The main reason being to make the villain more threatening, and the heroes seem like the underdogs, so that it's more suspenseful and satisfying when they prevail (assuming that you don't do a cop-out and have them win with "the power of friendship").

Any who, I'm curious, how would do you guys approach the issue of making a villain strong without making them too strong? Are RWBY OC villains held to a different standard of what's acceptable before they are considered overpowered?