Talk:Raven Branwen/@comment-27312496-20161128015008/@comment-4010415-20161130204431

Arkantos is right, y'know.

Qrow wasn't impressed with Team SSSN either. Both JNPR and SSSN's fights were total clusterfucks. While the writers did do that for comedy, they may have also done that for the purpose of "These students need to get their shit together. They have a long way to go and a lot to learn." Why does Team RWBY have things more together than JNPR and SSSN? Because RWBY has actually been out in the field before JNPR and SSSN. RWBY got a head-start over the other teams.

For them, it was actually critical that they start learning how to cooperate as a team because the fights they planned to get into actually had risk involved. The people they were fighting would not go easy on them just because they're students, and they didn't have the safety net of having a teacher around because they had a tendency to plan on going out on their own. Meanwhile, the other teams like JNPR and SSSN only got field experience in the form of missions where teachers tagged along and they fought Grimm, not people.

In JNPR's fight, Pyrrha was actually useful at fighting BRNZ's members and even took on two at once. Jaune got hit in the face by his own shield, and Ren got zapped to the ground and then got stuck just holding a guy hostage. The only reason Nora was useful was because Cinder made the effort of setting JNPR against a team that had someone using a cattle prod and gave them the stormy mountain biome for their match. Cinder played to Nora's Semblance to get JNPR to move on to the doubles round, so Pyrrha could move on to the singles round so she could involve Pyrrha in some kind of scandal (which she later decided would involve Penny, when she found out Penny was a robot).

Qrow's comment to Pyrrha about JNPR's fighting abilities was not necessarily "They need you more than you need them, leave them behind." It was more like


 * Pyrrha: I couldn't have gotten this far without my team.


 * Qrow: HAHAHA YOU'RE SERIOUS?!!! You and I both know you could've taken on BRNZ and gone through the doubles round all on your own. Don't give your teammates credit they don't deserve.