Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14640999-20140724024429/@comment-24198837-20140726195459

Here's how I see it:

1) If Penny is a robot, she doesn't have aura. Without aura, all anyone needs is one good strike to cut her in half. So, it's a matter of dodging, tanking through the swords, or using polarity to rip out vital processing parts ^^

Ruby with her semblance should be able to close the gap, Weiss is fast already and has all her dust, Blake could dodge and ninja her way up... Yang, maybe not.

Clearly not Jaune, I wouldn't think Ren (Maybe if he used his palm-strike and blasted her into bits, but he has to get within meele range...), maybe nora, and certianly Pyrrha, because she can effortlessly break Penny's vital computing parts.

With Sun, it would all hinge on whether on not Penny can block his shotgun-flurry-of-ultimate-death attack. If that hits, she's getting sent to the scrapyard. If not, there's no way he's blocking all her swords. His Semblance is a complete wildcard, though. Neptune may be able to one-shot her by shutting her down with his electric-pulse-rifle-thing.

Do I even need to mention CRDL?

2) If she's actually human, well... An adult, because there's no way any of the students could close the gap and land enough hits on her to drain her aura to a sufficent level. Unless, of course, Pyrrha can manage using her Semblane to deflect Penny's swords and strike at the same time... but I doubt it.

If Ruby goes super-sniper-top-shot-master mode, she could, technically, shoot through Penny's spinning-sword defence with the right timing, but as we've already seen, her shot is "meh". Maybe Weiss's dust attacks could actually reach Penny... maybe. Probably not.