Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24198837-20140421023639/@comment-24400457-20140422172236

1) Whilst this is true we have seen Yang do more than the others thus far (actually defeating three secondary antagonists, wiping out Junior's entire club's worth of likely trained bouncers, defeating two ursi with nary a scratch without even taking the situation seriously, easily holding agape the jaws of a Nevermore), and she easily has the most flawless record having only ever been taken to the ground twice (once by two people, of which she recovered immediately, and one from Junior, after which she laughed at him).

Blake and Ruby and both "lost" fights (Deathstalker/Beowolves and Roman), Jaune was destroyed by Cardin, Pyrrha hasn't actually done anything, Nora and Ruby have proven themselves reckless with Ruby nearly getting both herself, Yang and Weiss killed and Nora inadvertantly almost killing Blake, and Weiss is the only person we have seen actually suffer an injury (the White trailer).

Also both Ren and Weiss seem prone to fatigue, of which Yang has shown no such limitation. In terms of technique I would say learning to be THAT GOOD with caestus is just as impressive as Ruby's scythe mastery, Blake's kusarigama mastery (well maybe not), Sun's gunchaku mastery or Ren's aura mastery (maybe... we'll have to wait until we see more before judging). Oh and not having your wrists snap by shotgun recoil centralised on some of the frailest bones in the body is pretty darn impressive.

She may not be the most powerful, that may go to Weiss, Ren or Pyrrha. But as of right now she is by far the best fighter we have seen in Beacon and I can only see her being surpassed by Pyrrha. That being said I doubt we will see either her or Pyrrha develop much as fighters for a few seasons with a much larger focus on Ruby, Jaune, Blake and possibly Nora from a perspective of exactly whom we see become more badass. Hell she, Pyrrha, Ren and Weiss could all already have peaked.

2) Agreed. Roman didn't even look like he was trying whilst fighting off Blake and Sun. I don't know why everyone seems to forget but Roman was LAUGHING at Sun, a guy who was firing dual-shotguns next to Roman's face AT POINT BLANK RANGE. He also had no issues predicting and keeping up with someone who should theoretically be a far more agile opponent. Also worth noting is that Roman lacks a weapon to kill in close range. The rocket launcher his rendered worthless at the range Blake and Sun were in and he has no cutting edge nor any magic or means of blunt force trauma.

3) I imagine there are three terms used: the general term "Mankind" and the sub-types "Faunuskind" and "Humankind" respectively.

4) I don't even think they could. Pyrrha, whilst likely equalling Blake in terms of combat intelligence, would probably be a far cry away from being able to read, interrogate and likely somehwat manipulate other people in the way that Blake is likely going to prove capable of. Ren, whilst likely being able to read people just as well would probably lack in terms of the actual parleing. Blake may be in a league of her own from a psychological perspective.