Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-410526-20160702223237/@comment-3146930-20160703161752

Gastropod wrote: Darkcloud1111 wrote: However after Beacon, she is now outside the kingdom with the entire landscape being closer to Mountain Glenn. She no longer can just go back to her dorm room at night, she instead is outside camping probably with nothing to protect her except her own teammates. We also know how dangerous the outside is based on Blake's words, meaning Ruby went from learning-to-fight to fighting-to-survive, possibly explaining the power boost in only 6-8 months.

Honestly, I'm starting to think that you don't even attend Beacon to get better fighting skills. It's the rest of the experience that's important, such as making connections with other students, gaining insight from teachers and learning the empathy and teamwork that you need to be a good huntsman/huntress.

I wouldn't go that far, I mean Ruby is still in her first year so they probably want to get the basics down and slowly expose them to actual Grimm fighting. However some of the older students like Coco and Velvet seem to have their own gap in power compared to the first years, based on when Roman crashed the train into the city. This is probably based on how the mission levels are determined, as even Mountain Glenn was originally set up for older students and not first years.

This could explain the big gaps, as older students take on missions with higher and higher risk every year. As a result they have a much higher level of experience compared to the first years who know how to fight, but haven't put their abilities into practice. Beacon is all about the training of new Hunters, but they just want to make sure the new students don't die before graduating.