Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-19267090-20141125000403/@comment-9090085-20141210085045

Man, where has this thread been all this time?(and why is everyone quoting entire conversations that clog up the thread instead of just the passage they want to talk about?)

Oh well it's here now; may as well give my thoughts:

I like idea of categorizing the strength of the Grimm, but I feel your system is too convoluted: having multiple grades for each Grimm based on how many there are is confusing to whomever is reading your list, and makes gauging the strength of mixed groups harder. Plus, it caps out at five - considering a dozen Beowolves is small potatoes to even first year students, and that hundreds are likely killed weekly just to keep them away from the walls, and you've got a system that's scaled too small to useful to most Hunters.

I personally assign the Grimm to rough "Tiers" based on their individual strength; this allows one to gauge the strength of a group by simply multiplying the individual strength of it's members by the number in the group. Admittedly, this is kind of inexact, but given the wide variety of fighting styles used by Hunters and Grimm, trying exactly gauge their threat is tricky.

So without further ado, my(current) Tier listing is:

Now I'm making a lot of assumptions on the Goliaths combat capabilities, but my big assumption is that they are too big to attack individuals. Being bigger then an apartment building and likely having feet big enough to squash full-grown Death Stalkers, having them attack individual Hunters is like trying swat a fly as it flies around - a largely futile gesture.
 * Tier 1 - These Grimm are roughly equal to foot-solders or AK androids one-on-one; but small groups pose little threat to even 1st-year Hunters - they must outnumber those Hunters at least several dozen to one to win.
 * Beowolf, Creep, baby Nevermore
 * Tier 1.5 - These Grimm are tougher then T1, possessing the strength of a handful of lesser Grimm, and generally require a bit more effort for 1st-year Hunters to kill;  they are still fairly easily dispatched one-on-one, however.
 * Ursa Minor, Borbatusk, Beowolf Alpha
 * Tier 2 - These Grimm are almost on par with 1st-year Hunters, demanding their full attention to defeat.
 * Ursa Major, King Taijitu
 * Tier 3 - Capable of handily defeating 1st-year Hunters one-on-one, T3 must be fought with teams; though 3rd-year Hunters can crush them with relative ease on their own. All but immune to the attacks of solders/androids.
 * Death Stalker, Giant Nevermore
 * Tier 5(?) - Nearly immune to the attacks of 1st and 2nd year Hunters, these Grimm are best faced with full-time Hunters(possibly several).
 * Goliath

So what would they attack? Groups. It would charge enemy gun lines where the solders would get in each others way trying to avoid its feet; it would smash into buildings full of people, where there is no room to avoid its attacks. And all the while it would be attracting fire that would have been directed at smaller Grimm who can attack individuals without difficulty. That's also why I'm attributing impervious-ness against low-level Hunters to these 100s-year old Grimm; if they couldn't just ignore lesser foes, they'd make terrible bullet sponges.

There is another reason I don't think team RWBY can defeat a Goliath right now: They're just starting out. RWBY still has 3 more years after this one of school before they graduate and become full-time Huntresses, and we're going to be following them every one of those years. As powerful as they are, they still have a long way to go before they reach their full potential. That's why you have an enemy that your characters cannot defeat appear early on, and after developing, have them defeat it, because that shows just how much they've grown.

That's what I think anyways.

Also:

73.42.187.52 wrote: yang was stated to be immune to kinetic damage, No she wasn't; and if she is immune to physical attacks, how did Neo smack her around knock her out? Her semblance just makes her tougher and hit harder(and I'm not sure about the first part).

That also denies her any growth - if she's invincible, and thus even stronger then her teachers, what's the point in following her? She has no need to improve and won't be in any danger...