Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-14302856-20131005224013/@comment-1292715-20151101020208

Scarcrow11 wrote: Alternatively, you could liken Maka not having Soul (her primary weapon) as to Ruby not having CR. In this case, Ruby would probably win using her extreme speed to land a fatal blow if it was the first time Maka had seen this superspeed used. There's just one problem with that. Ruby is super reliant on Cresent Rose. As displayed in Mountain Glenn and No Brakes, her hand-to-hand combats skills are abysmal, to the point were Roman and the White Fang grunts were able to push her around, easily. In other words, you take that scythe away and Ruby is utterly useless. Whether or not Maka is good with hand-to-hand is debatable, because I don't remember a fight during which she didn't have Soul with her.