Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-32910370-20170830113709/@comment-25936766-20170925135936

Brainfriiz wrote:

1) Yang is a martial artist/monk first and foremost, her body is her weapon and her shield.

2) She hits harder, is tankier, is physically faster, and falls on her ass less then Weiss. Weiss is lithe, but she is only faster than Yang when using her Semblance to bounce around.

3) Weiss has the higher ceiling, for sure. .........But her dismal mastery of using all of her abilities cohesively hinders her. Maybe she just needs more one on one fights in show. 1) And that is both her main weapon and her Achilles's Heel.

2) Yang is not faster than Weiss unless she fires off her gauntlet(s) to get a speed boost. Even then, it's not so much a Speed Boost as much as Launching herself. Weiss with her Glyphs is not only fast, if not faster, but also more controlled and easily changes direction with multiple Glyphs.

Yang's "Tankiness and Strength" are hindered something, that I will describe in the next point:

3) Weiss is not the best at playing Mage, yes. But Yang has pretty much 0 actual fighting skill. Her entire Modus Operandi towards fights is to rush forward > endure whatever she takes > use Semblance to win. Even Taiyang pointed it out.

In itself, this has multiple problems. For starters, as proven with Neo, her Semblance is useless if she cannot even land a hit. It's for this reason that Neo kicked her ass, and the reason Neon almost did the same. Yang is not really a fast puncher, and kicks are almost alien to her, so anyone fast can do what Neo and Neon did.

Second of all, she must be able to endure what she takes. Which has failed twice; she couldn't endure Neo's barrage of kicks and even fell KO. And Adam 1-shot-KOd her with a barely-charged Moonslice.

Third of all, Semblance runs on Aura. Using Semblance diminishes Aura, it's their "fuel". So Yang's own tankiness is hindered by the fact that her abuse of her Semblance decreases her remaining Aura, which may not matter in the short term, but can matter in the long term, especially if she cannot even land a hit.

Yang so far has been the most noobish of Team RWBY in terms of fighting style. She treats her Semblance like an instant "I-win" button and relied on it every single time. She got her ass kicked and the only reason she even won some of her fights was because her Semblance depended on her getting her ass kicked. But the ideal would be that you don't get your ass kicked at all.

Hell, in her fight with Neon and Flynt, she pretty much won by sheer luck. She spent most of that fight getting her ass kicked without even being able to hit back.