Talk:Ruby Rose/@comment-58.7.165.71-20140531173114/@comment-3146930-20140531175042

The trailer can't really be used when describing Ruby because even Monty said it was more about Crescent Rose.

As far as the series goes, I see it a bit differently. Ruby makes mention that she was complete garbage at Signal until her uncle taught her how to use a scythe. So despite her skills putting her above Roman's mooks, she may only be at the same level as other students at Beacon.

As far as the Beowolf attack, it wasn't actually a bad idea. She couldn't hear inside Weiss' head and only saw that Weiss was surrounded on all sides by Beowolves. She had also never seen Weiss use any type of attacks before so may not know how her sword operates or her overall fighting style. The Grimm Ruby attacked appeared to be the pack leader, so if she could take it down then the rest of them would either scatter or Weiss and her could finish them off together.

I don't really see why the Nevermore attack should have failed from the start. The only real issue was that Ruby never told Yang the plan, but she seemed to know. This could easily be explained by Yang and Ruby being sisters, so they may be able to easily understand each other after years of growing up together. Everything else besides that seemed ok to me.

In class, she was clearly not doing well against the Boarbatusk and her own anger at Ruby got in her own way, not Ruby herself. Every single member of her team cheered her on, but she only snapped at Ruby. In fact she managed to defeat it by using the advice Ruby had told her, so make of that what you will.

Then with Roman, Penny distracted Ruby enough for Roman to land a blow on her; he did this while Ruby was telling Penny to get back. This is understandable because up until after Penny started wiping out everyone, Penny had shown no kind of combat skills and everyone seemed surprised when she said she was there to fight in the tournament, as she just seems like a weird girl and Ruby was trying to protect her.