Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-108.220.176.23-20130908060221/@comment-4802159-20131027030835

Ruby and Nora's combat styles and effectiveness are outright overbearing compared to the other six members, so there's your top two performers right there. Nobody else had the capability of delivering killing blows on either of the boss monsters.

Yang is likewise overbearing in combat style and strength, likely being the only other person that could match pace with Ruby.

Pyrrha's praise has been mostly lip service about her being the 'alpha' student and a prize tournament fighter. In practice, she's an average monster hunter though. Moving metal objects works better when your opponent is holding something metal, i'd wager.

Weiss is inexperienced at fighting, struggling with a small one-on-one kill, and most of her abilities at this point are support-grade at best. I would actually rank her between Ren and Jaune.

Ren and Blake are definitely skilled at fighting, but definitely aren't the curbstompers you get out of Ruby, Yang, and Nora on one hand, and lack Pyrrha's resume in the other.