Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-162.203.244.171-20130726023326/@comment-25857155-20150212034146

Blake v Adam... Adam would win, currently, hands down. As they are at the end of vol. 2, team RWBY is considerably less powerful than any of the bad guys. While Blake's use of Dust in her fight with Torchwick did throw him off balance, I am not so sure it would have been enough to take him down if he hadn't wanted to be captured, y'know?

Mercury was able to hold his own against Pyrhha, who is the best fighter in their year - the only reason he lost is because he forfeited. He is far more agile than Yang (d'you ever see her flip like that?), so he would probably have an easy job of outmaneuvering her, similar to Neo, though certainly not to that level. We can only assume that Emerald is on the same level, though we've only seen her in combat once.

If what we have seen of them thus far is a good judge, Glynda and Cinder are roughly equal to each other in terms of power and skill, though I suspect Cinder is more physically adept than Glynda, who may be more powerful in Semblance. If those two fight all-out, they could possibly level a city block.

No, team RWBY has a good bit of work to do to catch up to their enemies in skill, as does team JNPR. :)