Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25397424-20150121015939/@comment-4113038-20150122234555

Hmm, tough question, so I can't define anyone as being the most powerful, although I can limit the choices down. I'll only cover 1st year students however, so these are my personal picks.

I would say that Pyrrha is likely one of the most powerful of the 1st year students and currently of her team. She's a multi-time tournament champion, her weapon has many forms that she eaisily transitions to, she appears to have a masterful level of control of her polarity but does not abuse it, and she's demonstrated extreme proficiency in taking team CRDL in a 4-1 handicap match. That would be a challenge for anyone given the numbers edge and even when she faced Mercury (granted he was holding back), she was not fatigued at all afterwards and would have been able to keep going. I can understand that against someone like Cinder (glass weapons), then she's going to have a challenge, but she's not stupid and can still manipulate metal items. Hell she likely could use her polarity on her Armour to aid her movements, and she could use enviromental elements as she did during the food fight when she utilised her polarity. Thing is with Pyrrha, she uses her Polarity to control her weapons and her enemies, but there are oppoments where that's not gonna work, so if the oppoment is very tough or smart, she gonna risk getting defeated or she would have to use her Polarity much more that normal (like in the food fight). By the time she graduates, she's likely going to be a very strong Huntress.

Blake is an interesting one that people have said and I can see why. Blake is a Jack of all Trades and a Master of None like people have said. She might lack strength but she's faily proficient overall. The fact that she served in the White Fang and Adam was her partner, I can see that she was likely trained very well. The rest of team RWBY have show major weaknesses, as Yang has been defeated by Neo who literally toyed with her. Weiss has issues with endurance and her glyphs can leave her fatigued if used excessively, and the fight on Professor Ports class she was out of breath, despite the short battle. Ruby is crippled without Crescent Rose, as she has no unarmed combat skills, although Weiss also had that issue as well against the Boarbatusk. Blake I can see have some skill that might not be much, but I bet it's something, and her Faunus genetic's enhances her combat abilities. Still Blake has struggled against Roman and she had help from Sun, and when she bet Roman on the train, she was using some of Weiss's dust vials, so while I can see her as being a stronger member of team RWBY, she not that much more stronger than the others.

While I can see these 2 being the more powerful 1st years, I have to say, that most of them would be very powerful by the end of their 4 year training at Beacon. In fact, I'm betting that Jaune might become very powerful and one of the more deadly Hunters. Given his family heritage and bloodline, I can see him becoming like his great-great-grandfather. The fact that Pyrrha is teaching him how to fight is also gonna be a huge help for him and she's stated that he's got a lot of Aura, and that says something. His healthing factor also seems like a important trait that might make him difficult to defeat. Currently he's lacking in skill and power overal and needs to be taugh more, but give him a few years, and he would rival some of the most powerful Hunters and Huntresses.