Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-24901923-20150701220818/@comment-25555436-20150703023209

The Devil&#039;s Advocate WP wrote:

The only other member of RWBY who really has that problem is Weiss as both Blake and Yang have weapons that well-suited for both long-to-mid-range combat and close-quarters. Weiss uses a Rapier, which isn't a bad weapon in CQC, plus she has Dust, in great amounts, which she can focus on the blade, to both perform stronger close-ranged and mid-ranged attacks and even create shields. Her Semblance+Dust also gives the best Long-Range capabilities of the team, and more AoE.

Blake's gunkatana isn't terrible in neither the close and mid range departments, but to be honest, we haven't really seen her try to fire it at actually-long range (Nevermore excluded, and even either because of distance, nervousness or noobicity, no one hit it at that moment), so we don't know if it's really good at long-range.

Yang is the worst in the ranged department on the team. You see, she fires small explosive slugs. Simple enough. Problem is, these don't seem particularly strong or damaging despite being explosive, we don't know how good they are at long range (though considering how they are fired I doubt they are good at that range) and in any case it's been shown about 3-4 times that these shots are weak enough to be perfectly reflected and blocked. First by Melanie in the Y-Trailer with a simple kick, and later by Neo, with only her Umbrella.