Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-24901923-20150701220818/@comment-14909251-20150703212954

LiveandSound wrote: Weiss uses a Rapier, which isn't a bad weapon in CQC, plus she has Dust, in great amounts, which she can focus on the blade, to both perform stronger close-ranged and mid-ranged attacks and even create shields. Her Semblance+Dust also gives the best Long-Range capabilities of the team, and more AoE.

Blake's gunkatana isn't terrible in neither the close and mid range departments, but to be honest, we haven't really seen her try to fire it at actually-long range (Nevermore excluded, and even either because of distance, nervousness or noobicity, no one hit it at that moment), so we don't know if it's really good at long-range.

Yang is the worst in the ranged department on the team. You see, she fires small explosive slugs. Simple enough. Problem is, these don't seem particularly strong or damaging despite being explosive, we don't know how good they are at long range (though considering how they are fired I doubt they are good at that range) and in any case it's been shown about 3-4 times that these shots are weak enough to be perfectly reflected and blocked. First by Melanie in the Y-Trailer with a simple kick, and later by Neo, with only her Umbrella. Rapier isn't bad for short-range, but a long blade is not going to be much good in a tight hallway or when an enemy is right in front of you. Her ranged abilities with it do not make it very useful in that sense either. Blake probably has some bit of long-range ability, but not nearly as effective. Blake and Yang have sufficient weaponry to engage in mid-to-close range combat, but are not going to be effective at long range. They can take ground-level Grimm and low-flying airbound Grimm, though Blake's Gambol Shroud seems less suited for combating the Grimm. Ruby and Weiss are best for mid-to-long range and are not going to be as effective at close range.

In the event the team is separated, both of them would struggle in close spaces. Yang and Blake would have a problem with long-range weaponry in an open space, but otherwise are able to handle being separated from the team. Neither of them would need to further supplement their weaponry, but I believe both Weiss and Ruby would need some effective close-range armaments.