Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20140815002519/@comment-25308133-20140819005037

That's a very good argument. It still makes Yang the heavy of the group and maybe a bit OP but it makes a lot of sense. And it makes the Paladin a bit more of a threat. Consider me convinced. (Though it's kinda sad that the clever option wasn't the correct one)

JNPR would definitely crush a Paladin, and any other machine. Pyrrha's semblance would make it a trivial fight, much in the same way that Magneto fighting a tank would be. Pyrrha hasn't been shown to be as powerful as Magneto is, but she should have more then enough power to seize all the joints on the Paladin, or a host of other smaller scale solutions to stop it cold.

CRDL would be a foregone conclusion, they ran in terror from an ursa. A mech looking as badass as the Paladin (deserved or not) would be much worse, no way they'd stand and fight.

RWBY without Yang would probably still have won but it'd have been a harder fight.