Board Thread:RWBY Wiki Centre/@comment-6528906-20130216160820/@comment-7472785-20130818090101

From MisaMisaEK:  " I have this odd thinking that Wiess is the exact opposite, i think she perfers to see if the enemy has a reason for attacking her. Notice with the armor she just looked at it in surprise, then when it attacked HER she proceeded to attack it. I think underneath all that frostiness, Wiess is really softhearted."

I rather think that contrary to her three co-protagonists, she handles a 'focused' weapon in 'focused' combat - meaning her strength is one on one combat, not mass melées.

Group combat, or melée combat, is not to be underestimated, as it requires coordination and keeping an overview over where the next menace comes from, instinctive strategy to identify the next target and, not least, a fast elimination of the intermediate adversary in order to be able to immediately switch to the next. Ruby, Blake and Yang have shown this in their trailers, Weiss not.

In other words, in a one on one situation, I'd choose Weiss, in a one on X situation I'd prefer any of the others.

That doesn't mean at all that Weiss is soft hearted however - she's focused, analyzes the weaknesses of her foe and unscrupulously goes for them to win.