Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25266931-20170217011737/@comment-25266931-20170220134849

Mastering the skills the already know is of course something they should do. I'm not against that. I'm saying it doesn't make sense to only think within the box. Thinking about what we've seen so far what harm could there be in any of the characters having aces up their sleeves? If Ruby use a wider variety of dust and trained her body that would really open up doors for her. If Yang learns swordplay and got a retractable blade attached to her robo-arm and kept it a secret. If Blake started acquiring spoils from WFs she beat and started keeping them as backup weapons or spare parts when things break down. That could help too. And of course how quickly she beat Torch the 2nd time on the train shows she needs to start having dust packs of her own. As for Weiss I've already covered her she basically just needs to build up for defense constantly keep more dust on her.

Every fight I've ever been in in real life was about two things: confusion and preconceptions. Win or lose people often think "oh he's gonna do this" and then you either do that or you don't. People who never saw me be serious were scared when I got focus and turned a cold stare on them. People who thought I didn't take martial arts excerise classes serious found out the hard way when I'd slam them in the ground. People who thought all I do is draw again were in for a rude awakening. That's all I'm saying with the heroes. Master their crafts, sure. But spend a least a little time coming up with some unforeseen tricks or skills that the enemy would never figure they'd do.

Tyrian didn't know about Nora's electric absorbing. If she has done a shock to herself and attacked him even if he blocked he'd be wide open for a sniper shot from Ruby.

If Jaune wants to learn aura control and he still want to learn from Qrow now would be a good time to learn from Ren.