Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-26299202-20150505005922/@comment-25555436-20150514234240

IMIMIXI wrote: Im pretty sure that in the RWBY universe, given two duelists equally experienced with their weapons, gun scythe would win due to its greater reach and its uniquity. Equal skill in weaponry imo means equal level of familiarity with the most efficient techniques available to said weapons. Adding context ie RWBYverse combat, it would be considerably difficult to gain experience in countering fighting styles similar or identical to that of a highly skilled gunscyther, with only 3 currently listed being listed as Ruby Rose, Qrow Branwen, and Sun Wukong (SIMILAR or identical c.s), whereas encountering (thus countering) combat styles similar or identical to those of a gunblader would be rather simple, ie Blake Belladonna, the team CRDL gunblader, Emerald Sustrai, Roman Torchwick, etc. Thus, i have listed my reasoning for why i believe that a skilled gunscyther would defeat an equally skilled gunblader in a duel-esque situation. -You would think the greater reach of the scythe= more effectiveness? Ha! Fail there. You see, because of the blade's shape, like I already said, the hits need to be at a much more precise range. This means, if you are too far away you fail, but if you are too close, even if the enemy is "within reach of the scythe", it doesn't mean "within reach of the scythe's blade", making the hit be just as effective as hitting something with a pole. And if you wanted to do that, just get a real pole.

-Uniquity means shit when it comes to weaponry, kid. Gunblades were rather unique weapons too. Yet they are among the most impractical weapons ever designed. There's a reason pretty much no one used them in humanity's history.

-Sun doesn't use a gunscythe, you blind genius, he uses fucking staff-gunchakus. How can you confuse them with a gunscythe?!

-Ah-hem. One thing is finding a gunblader, which there are many in Remnant apparently. But one thing you clearly failed to notice: All of these gunbladers's weapons are entirely different. Compare Blake's Gambol Shroud with Ren's Stormflower or Emerald's gunsickles. They are extremely different. So your point there falls flat, for while you can find many gunbladers, all of them are different in both fighting style and the weapons themselves, so even if you know how to counter one, you won't know how to counter another one.

And Roman is not a Gunblader, you bloody genius. He uses a freaking cane. Cane that has no blade anywhere. As it has no blade, he doesn't count as a Gunblader (what do you think the "blade" part stands for?).