Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-62.155.218.241-20171021220319/@comment-95.133.43.25-20171110073448

Arkantos95 wrote: 95.133.42.171 wrote: Arkantos95 wrote: By the breakup of the team Blake was the best fighter in there. I'm sorry, may you remind me of where/by whom it was confirmed? I remember that she was named the most experienced one of team RWBY - but not the strongest at all.

Anyway, it doesn't change the fact that in Season 2 Blake is the only one who's not trying to improve at all. ... watching the show is where it was confirmed. Yang is the physically strongest, but she has no technique and got her shit wrecked by every agile fighter she went up against. Weiss was a glass cannon bordering on glass slingshot before she developed summoning, and Ruby is completely useless without Crescent Rose on top of having a weapon that would be utterly useless in the hands of anyone with a different Semblance. No proof then. The only proof could be the RT commentary or Blake winning actual fight versus Ruby/Yang/Weiss. The rest is just your assumptions.

1) Yang argument is valid because loosing the 1-on-1 fight doesn't necessary mean that you are weak - it may mean that you faced the worst kind of opponent for you. That was about Neo with her evasive fighting style, and Neon, with her speed and "hit and leap" fighting style.

2) Weiss argument is valid because... Well, during V4x10 she handeled way better than Blake - even just with her ordinary glyphs and sword fighting style.

3) Ruby argument is valid because we have never seen anyone in RWBY except Yang fighting without their weapon. The only hint of Blake being fine with hand-to-hand combat is V4, the part with Ilia, her scroll and Sun.

I have to say, Blake has another weakness that was discussed a long ago: she usually gets stunned after direct hits. That was in Black Trailer, in V4x11 with Adam, in V1 (in Emerald Forest) etc. We here, on wiki, thought that this weakness was caused by her evasive fighting style - she've got used to evade hits with the help of her shadow clones, so when she actually gets thouse hits herself, she gets stunned.

And it's also rather symbolic. I gues, if Blake wants to improve, she has to stop using her shadow clones just to take damage for her (the defensive function) and start to fight by them (the attacking function). I liked some Blake's moves in RWBY: Grimm Eclipse, where she used her shadow clones to make double/multiple hits in a short period of time. I want to see smth similiar in the show.

And talking about her shadows: in V1-2 they were quite unstable, disappearing really quickly after being hit or used as a "platform". In V3x1 Blake cheats Reese with a clone, standing still far away from Blake. What happened in V3x11 still isn't clear - some people assume Blake creating both her and Yang's clones to distract Adam, thouh I doubt it. But still: that Blake's clone lasted longer than the clones she had before. In V5x3 her clone isn't a passive "shield"/"platform" for her: it moves to throw her higher. So it is somehow active now.

And, again: such kind of development would be symbolic for her. Everything we've seen about her character before in the series was defense and self-defense, she fought back all the time. Now I'd really like her to make first step in fighting. Because Blake really needs to get out from under the shadow of others.