Talk:Ruby Rose/@comment-25578930-20150118074727/@comment-24891101-20150123041729

You're thinking about this the wrong way. Of course she has some training in hand to hand. With a pugilist elder sister, she can hardly not. But even if she has some training, without her weapon, she panics. Sundered from her weapon, she loses all confidence in her combat ability, regardless of actual training. So yeah, she does suck in combat without her weapon.

It's also not her specialty. She's clearly leagues better with her beloved in her hands. So while she might be good enough to beat up bottom-of-the-barrel rent-a-thugs when she's got the element of surprise and can think through the move before she does it, she's not good when she's mentally exhausted, disoriented, low on Aura, standing on the edge of a cliff, sleep deprived, and panicked.