Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25266931-20170224140119/@comment-26397825-20170228114411

KNN005 wrote: @Spirited: Would you keep Ruby as the leader of her group? For that matter should Sun stay leader of his? Not sure why you directed this at me, since I've been at work for the last four-five hours and wasn't part of this conversation, but honestly? Yes.

Ruby has the most to learn from a position of leadership. She needs to be able to deal with people and step up and take charge as a Huntress, which the first chapter of the manga showed she had trouble when faced with large crowds of people. And repeated early interactions with Weiss have compounded what the manga stated as well; Ruby does not deal well with people in direct conflict with her. She needs to learn how now, as a student, before she needs this as an adult and can't do it because she wasn't forced to learn it.

Comparatively, Weiss, Blake and Yang can all stand up to those who are conflicting with them long enough to command them to safety, and long enough to take charge of an emergency situation and get the panicking civilians to do as they say when they say it. They have the aura of command that a Huntress needs in dire situations. Ruby does not.

As for the rest of the team:

Weiss actually has far more to learn as a team member rather than a leader. She is used to commanding something and having it be followed (except in the case of her family), and she needs to learn how to compromise with others and accept their plans instead of forcing them to use hers.

Yang and Blake could go either way; Blake needs to learn to trust people and Yang needs to learn to control herself more temper-wise, and these are both lessons that can be achieved as either team leader or team member.

The same can be said for what we've seen of SSSN. Sun needs to learn responsibility, so he was given responsibility. And others follow this same pattern. We haven't seen enough of the filler teams from the tournament or CFVY to say if they follow this or not, but the ones we have observed all have someone who can learn the most in the position of leader.
 * Jaune needs to learn pretty much everything; the position of team leader meant Pyrrha was free to teach him instead of trying to both lead and teach.
 * Cardin needs to learn to delegate instead of charging forward with no care to others, which he has shown progress in when he sent Russel and Sky to the doubles round of the Vytal Festival instead of going forward himself.

So yes, I would keep Ruby and Sun as the leaders of their respective teams.