Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-65.94.50.112-20131215233249/@comment-11188061-20131219054838

The Devil's Advocate WP wrote: I would say part of the problem with Blake is that her weapon, as I have noted before, does not seem suited for general monster-fighting and that probably also means her combat experience has not been geared as much towards such fights. We see her take out Grimm stealthily, but she does not seem to have any effect on the bigger enemies. Anytime she is up against a person-sized opponent such as the robots in the Black Trailer or Roman, however, she puts up a much better fight. You mean the time she tried to go ham on Roman, dived at him straight as an arrow, used her top speed from the very beginning, did not vary her speed to deceive, did not employ her Semblance shadows to distract, and got her Semblance cancelled in the end by a single counter before getting whacked 4 times in a row? You call that a much better fight?

Season 1 Blake is a disaster of a fighter and her performance was the second weakest out of anyone, and she didn't even come close to the ninja she might be hoping to be. I've said from the very beginning that Blake has the potential to become the strongest fighter in the story, but right now? She's weak and underperforming like hell. Here's a list of her current failures to date:

1) Nearly getting killed by the Spider Droid after trying to cover for Adam without any sort of plan at all.

2) Tried to use the kusarigama style against a completely shielded Deathstalker and get whacked by a pincer for the effort. If the Grimm could speak, it would've said, 'Hey! That itched!'

3) Unable to dodge out of Nora's way before getting knocked into a seemingly endless abyss. Though this is completely accident and negligible.

4) Tried to go crazy on Roman and get completely dominated instead cue Roman x Blake.

Point is, with exception to Jaune, no one else has suffered nearly as much defeat as she did so far. Note the with exception the 2), Blake could've died on all three other occasions. The near death ratio is astounding. It's time to face the facts, people, that Season 1 Blake is weak.