Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25266931-20170112165458/@comment-27082610-20170114162242

KNN005 wrote:

I'm not saying RWB try to get heavier, I'm saying do leave ALL the meat-tanking to Y. If everyone gains a little more durablity and strength it could go a long way. It's like Ghira was saying to Blake. He was saying bascially, why don't you wear even a little bit of armor. Some small light armor would even help. But Blake but defensive and maybe even insecure about it thinking he was questioning her clothing choices or back-seat-driving her life. Even ninja, in all their lightness and speed no sometimes you need to up protection even a little. Not per se shoulder pads but some streamline armor is reasonable.

Moving on, now that Jaune and Ruby split up from Ren and Nora how are they on team attack with just the duet in mind? When they put together this rag-tag team after RWBY split up, what new set up came with it? Ruby was calling out attack formations and combos a lot during the Torch/Paladin vs. RWBY fight. But sine then, not much of that has been seen. I don't know if that a lack of Oum being around or if it's just a change in direction within the team of the characters. What I do know is, they've lessened their attack power and teamwork capabilities by splitting up even more while carrying a dying man. I'm pretty sure Ghira was more focused on the fact that his daughter was essentially running around in a wide bra and an open overcoat rather than her armoring up. Weiss and Ruby can't wear armor because A): They're physically not exactly the strongest people around and B): Both of their fighting styles are heavily reliant on speed. Same thing with Blake really. And I don't really think she was insecure about it so much as embarrased about her father pointing out that she's not wearing a whole lot. And honestly, let's look at the people who do wear armor in this series:

CRDL: Jobbers among jobbers, the lot of them, led by an incompetent jackass with no redeeming qualities.

Yatsu: Can take a hit, but that really doesn't matter when he can't land any in return as happened with Mercury.

Moving on, we saw Nora and Ruby preforming a combined attack against the Petra Gigas, but much like in the Paladin fight, those kinds of attacks are really only useful if you're fighting something that isn't going to be moving around a whole lot. Both the Paladin and the Petra Gigas bascially just stood in the middle of the circle and took hit after hit while launching mostly innefective attacks. And honestly, RNJR's been moving across continents for the past 6-8 months. It doesn't seem like they've had a whole lot of time to create elaborate team attacks when they're trying to get to Mistral as quickly as possible.