User blog comment:Maki Kuronami/Lesson 27: Screw everything, have a Samurai!/@comment-9090085-20141024205138/@comment-10380701-20141024231259

The only reason Roman was an unstoppable pimp slappin' badass is because Blake was still garbage at that time. She's garbage now alongside the rest of Team RWBY, once compared to everyone older though. (And Zwei. Zwei did what took RWBY a whole teamwork to do: Wreck a fucking Paladin)

You can actually see that a single term in Beacon is enough for her to get gud. It doesn't help that she now utilizes Dust in tandem with her semblance. Now she doesn't need help from Adam or Sun or the rest of RWBY to kick someone's ass.