Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-108.27.52.44-20140406022515

With volume 2 on the horizon I've been thinking a bit about the tournament and characters dueling. Thus far, we've seen several fight scenes in which the various members of RWBY and JNPR prove themselves to fight well and generally be badasses. We know that they can fight others (the trailers, ren vs snakes, etc), and that they can fight well together. But what about fighting each other? Like, each character has a distinctive fighting style that can be used against numerous foes, but how they match up could be interesting.

What I've noticed so far is:

Ruby makes very swift, powerful attacks from a range of distances.

Weiss primarily uses glyphs and swift fencing-like strikes against opponents.

Blake seems to work best in close proximity with her sword/gun combo, but can use her ribbon in her environment effectively.

Yang utilizes hand-to-hand combat and cannot really do long range attacks.

Jaune fights fairly close-range.

Pyrrha can fight long and short range with precise and versitle attacks.

Nora relies of powerful blows from her hammer, with the gun features used as a secondary technique.

Ren can fire at enemies from some distance, but his weapon has blades which would be utilized up close.

...so what I'm trying to say is, different characters have different strengths and advantages. So it's very interesting seeing how someone who fights best up close (Yang, Jaune, Blake, or possibly Ren) would fight someone with a weapon that can carry more distance (Nora, Pyrrha, Ruby, or Weiss). I'm not saying any one category would hold an advantage, but I'm curious to see what strategies would be employed in a match, either cross-categories [disclamer: these categories are something I totally came up with 2 minutes ago and not at all canon] or within them. Any thoughts? 