Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27144409-20160217015008/@comment-24198837-20160304165824

Here's the deal with RWBY characters in Death Battles or r/whowouldwin arguments - everyone is in a wierd tier. If you use only feats to determine their skill set, the majority of the cast is stupidly slow, as we can easily track the majority of their fights, with crazy variable durability - Yang got hit to, and fell from, the stratosphere during the food fight and was unharmed. But the Paladin nearly killed her with a single punch a few episodes later, and that Mech clearly didn't have enough power to send her to orbit.

If you use power scaling, they're all massively FTE with crazy strength. Mercury dodged Coco's minigun fire, Yang dodged automatic fire in her trailer, and Cardin has blocked bullets before. They all wreck knights with minimal effort, and in No Brakes a knight punches an ursa (probably weighing around 500 lbs) several feet casually. In the same episode, Pyrrha threw an ursa over a 4-story-building a block away without even trying.

If you use high showings and power scaling, RWBY charactes hit massively harder, move insanely faster, and are far more duable than they seem. If you use only feats/average showings, almost everyone in the show gets slaughtered by Master Chief or similarly strong characters.

I think Black Rock Shooter is way out of their leauge, though. Even at their strongest. Look up her respect threat, it's crazy.