User blog comment:Nice Things/My Feelzzzz/@comment-98.24.254.43-20130605093349

Im a lil bias against magic users being the best of any form of combat. I have been a fan of many media (from manga/anime to video games to western literature) and i find i favor more scientific solutions (or in this case weapons). That being said, I absolutely agree the sniper scythe is the best weapon for dealing with large numbers so far. And Ruby's use of it was extremely unquie, i would never have thought of using the recoil to increase her own running/flying/slashing speed. This is mostly due to the fact i know that the force of a real life deer slug fired from a shotgun is only just barely enough to push dead weight off of a flat hook =/, but i digress. In 1v1 fighting though, my bias begins to show. I believe a well trained hand to hand fighter who can close distance very quickly is far more effective for dealing with a single opponent than a magician. With that i believe Yang is better in single combat than Weiss. Yes, we could argue till we are blue in the face about how we dont truly understand the limits of Weiss's magic powers, but i can point one near fatal weakness that a martial artist like Yang could exploit AS LONG AS she can close the distance. Each time Weiss switched to using a spell or another magic ability of her sword, she needed between 1 to 3 seconds for it to "charge". Weiss compensated for this by chaining debilitating attacks to further slow down her target giving herself more time for the next "charge". Yang on the other hand only required 1 time to reload and using 2 "clips" for each gauntlet she cleared a room and beat 3 "bosses". Yang only really demonstrated a weakness for not taking a fight seriously from the beginning. Though that could just be the typical tendancy of writers to make the "hero" hold back for the build up against the "real villian". *huff* *huff* *huff*

I know i must have mispelled a few thing while writing this. English is my first language, but i have no interest of becoming a writer in my future :P. Your opinions were well founded and i thought i'd just share my opinions with you.

-DMDrax