User blog comment:Kyvos/Volume 2 Episode 1 Review/@comment-11188061-20140725005305

All of them are pretty much fighting with a handicap.

Ruby did not use any weapon at all. There's no food in this world that resembles her scythe (c'mon, I'm giving you ideas here cooks!), so she couldn't even participate in most of the fights. She's basically the Ace of the team. Everyone else tries to pummel each other, and she's the one who has the highest potential to decisively win a battle. She made the right tactical choices (well, considering it's an insane foodfight maybe it's just spur of the moment) by first suppressing the enemy Ace, then turn the tide with her own Semblance since she was more rested than Pyrrha.

During the fight with the King Tajitsu, Ren insisted on ranged attacks until he was forced without a choice to go full melee. This means that he isn't confident with his melee skills (and with good reason, look at how Yang handed it to him with the range disadvantage, but then again his matchup was the absolute worst) and wants to avoid going close unless absolutely necessary. Again, there's no gun, so if he wants to fight that is the only way. Also, his Qi Strike is usually too powerful to be used against any human.

Jaune at least made a cool flip!

Pyrrha isn't really underpowered. She took down Yang and Blake before she faces full power trayboarding Ruby, so it's understandable that she got pushed back at the early stage. Afterwards, her polarity Semblance nearly turns the tide of battle completely to their favor. She played a fitting role as the Ace of the team.

Nora isn't OP, she just have high stamina and energy. Her makeshift weapon is the best (watermelons ARE sturdy, and she broke an iron pole to work as a handle, so basically hers is the most complete 'weapon' out of all the others), and no one can deny that she's the strongest melee hard hitter out of everyone in the team. The best way to take her down is to avoid melee combat completely, and Weiss can only go melee since she doesn't have any good ranged to use (sauce squirt is a trick even Nora can avoid, after seeing it once). The results are very fair.