Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-62.155.218.241-20171021220319/@comment-26018514-20171107081735

95.133.8.157 wrote:

Phantomlink959 wrote:

It's no secret that they've had to condense, re-arrange, and alter a LOT of plans over the years to account for new story elements and unexpected production hangups. Well, in this case RT shouldn't have made Blake the only one from her team who has no any signs of upgrade to this moment (the direction of her development as a fighter is not even hinted). Gradual power-up is great - though the way they held, for example, Weiss' summoning, came a little of nowhere. People still call Blake "useless" - and that's a bad sign, really. TBF... Blake has faced and defeated some of the craziest opponents RWBY has faced up until Weiss's fight(not counting Tyrian as he was Qrow's opponent), with Soloing Torchwick and facing the Sea Dragon.... though the main thing is that she tends to be the "set-up", rather than the "killer", leveraging experience rather than some great talent/power like.... all of RW_Y does. Most often she just seems to be the catapult for the Yang that goes bang, or tripping up opponents for the rest of the team...

Weiss had the same problem until she learned her summoning aspect, but her glyphs were multipurpose enough it didn't feel as bad. The issue with Blake's upgrade though... we really haven't seen her fight much since it was announced... and it would have been straight up BS to see it in the Seadragon fight(if she had it then)... I'd wager it's inheriting another character's weapon, such as her parents, Sienna, Adam, or Ilia(that material that stiffens when a charge is running through it could be an amazing upgrade) and that is why she doesn't have it yet, because after Monty died they decided the character involved needed developement first.