Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20141010002549/@comment-25308133-20141014001625

Angren Túrë wrote: Well, and it's also good writing that Ruby has a very real and definable achilles heel. Making her confident and powerful in every possible situation puts her almost at Sue-level power levels.

Agreed. I never had a problem with her being considerably worse at combat without CR, or even that she lost the fight against the WF goons. My problem was there was no fight. If you take a master swordsman and take a way his sword, he is going to be a considerable disadvantage, but some of the training is universal and would allow him to put up some fight. He would lose to anyone actually trained in hand to hand, even if their training is lacking compared to his with his sword but it shouldn't be effortless.

Now, that said, I have a theory that may add some weight on the other side of the argument. Unlike Pyrrha and probably Yang, virtually all of Ruby's practical combat experience would probably have been against Grimm, not people. She obviously has some experience considering how she took down Junior's goons, but we've never really seen her fight against another hunter-class person yet. I doubt the experience translates well. This is why I believe that while Ruby is probably the strongest of the younger cast over all, Ruby vs Pyrrha would probably have Pyrrha win. Even though 'Ruby vs Grimm' vs 'Pyrrha vs Grimm' would have Ruby win. This is really just speculation and opinion on my part though.