Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-29684190-20190607194505/@comment-4010415-20190612034635

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote:

1. Knight: She literally got scarred in one hit. She won, but she's literally the only main protagonist so far who gave a real fight and got injured while at it (Blake got scarred by Adam but we can't call their thing in V3 a real fight. Same with Yang, she lost before she could do anything) (No, not counting Maria as a main protagonist....yet).

Well, "real fight". She's better with Dust, chronologically is already good with it by the time this fight happens, but she insisted on playing the fencer and hop around to show off. Cue Knight Pawnch.

2. Boarbatusk: Literally almost beat her until she actually followed Ruby's advice. Note that the Boarbatusk is barely above Beowolf level. Note that she had already fought Beowolves by then, dozens at once. Winter's training was for nothing apparently.

3. Roman (Paladin): Got blasted away and the only reason she didn't get her ass kicked was because she played support this time.

4. WF Lieutenant: She went solo, and got her ass kicked majorly, even got KOd, and the only reason she didn't die right there and then was because the writers forgot Banesaw existed by the very next shot.

5. FNKY: She was utterly useless against Flynt, and instead of pushing Yang away with her Glyphs or something she awkwardly does it herself, and gets lava to the face for it, making her the only member of Team RWBY to get KOd in the Tournament.

6. Lancers: Struggles to defeat the normal ones, which is fair given the circumstances. Then comes the Queen Lancer and she struggles even harder, and after winning her own trump card (The Knight) causes the ship to get hit by the stinger and crash, possibly killing the pilot (not that she cares).

7. Vernal: Literally almost died. 1. If the Shirow Miwa manga chapters covering the White Trailer are to be at least 90% believed, it sheds a different light on that. In the manga, she had already been training prior to the Arma Gigas entering the room, so she may have already taken some hits and used Aura for her Semblance before that and hadn't really had time for her Aura to fully recover. If so, that fight wasn't entirely fair, and the secretary is very rude.

2. On one hand, the Boarbatusk had armor on its back, whereas Beowolves aren't very armored. On the other hand, Weiss is supposed to be lowkey the nerd of the team who actually studies and works toward high grades, so she should've already known how best to attack a Boarbatusk. Slight point in Weiss' favor: She was distracted by her annoyance with Ruby.

3. Knocked on her little heiress tush. Honestly, sometimes she should step back and play support.

4. Biggest baddest beatdown. Indeed questionable why the WF Lt didn't kill her. They didn't forget he existed, though. He comes walking through the door that she got thrown through, but it's unknown why he did that in the first place.

5. Considering Flynt was gearing up for an attack with all three of his clones out, she may have feared the range of his attack would be too great for her to easily get Yang out of the way. Though, honestly, Weiss and Yang were fighting the entirely wrong people in that fight, but it seems like that was Flynt and Neon's plan in the first place.

Neon pisses off Yang so that Yang fights sloppily, then zooms around on her rollerskates to avoid Yang's attacks and teases her, thus pissing off Yang even more.

Flynt hits Weiss' nerve before the fight and counters her moves with his trumpet and Semblance.

If Weiss and Yang had worked smarter, they would've switched targets. Weiss could've taken Neon a lot easier than Yang did. And really, they should've tried to get Neon into the desert biome where the sand would clog up her skates, reducing her mobility.

6. The Queen Lancer is more armored, and to be fair, I don't think Weiss could actually see that the ship was behind her summon. It looked like she was seeing through her summon's "eyes". Also, the ship had already taken damage prior to that, so the Queen's stinger was just the straw that broke the camel's back.

7. Weiss drank a big ol' glass of idiot juice.