Talk:Ruby Rose/@comment-104.60.76.17-20170311235716/@comment-4010415-20170403182050

One way that Ruby has gotten better at fighting that we've seen is that she seems to have gotten better at using her Semblance. We mostly saw this in the Volume 4 Character Short where she was using her Semblance a lot. Meanwhile, in volumes 1-3, she had a habit of using her scythe's recoil to quickly move somewhere else, but in the Character Short, she didn't use the recoil. She only used it during Qrow vs Tyrian because she was low on Aura, and Aura serves as fuel for Semblance. She didn't want to waste her Aura jumping onto and off of a roof. The rest of the time in volume 4, she was using her Semblance to get around quickly, rather than recoil. She even used it in the fight against the Nuckelavee.

To be honest, it seems like volume 4 was focusing a little more on JNR and Jaune's leadership, so we didn't get to see much of how Ruby has grown, though shooting Nora with a lightning Dust round was a pretty smart action. I think it focused on Jaune's leadership because Nora and Ren are Jaune's teammates, not Ruby's. She has no grounds to order them around. Once Team RWBY is reunited, we may see Ruby issuing orders as a leader again.