Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27143816-20160216033644/@comment-25936766-20160611194901

The Devil&#039;s Advocate WP wrote:

1-Not to mention, the longer she has been a Maiden the more likely she has had significant field experience fighting Grimm. 2-Yes, actually, because there is far more cover thus making evasion simpler.

3-Okay, so a dirt road isn't technically wilderness, but it obviously isn't the kind of highly developed urban area where one could easily avoid encounters with Grimm.

4-How is that even remotely doubtful? Ruby is skilled, but she still had very little field experience and most of that being done under supervision alongside team members. We have every reason to believe Amber had more experience being alone in the field.

5-I suggest you watch the fight again. We can safely say her abilities in hand-to-hand combat eclipse that of Ruby by leaps and bounds.

6-He fought one much stronger Grimm than the average Beowolf despite having just started at Beacon and still had sufficient stamina to apparently run after Nora riding an Ursa and flee from and fight two massive Grimm.

7-Why is it more likely that she would not be able to evade Grimm in a place where there is far more natural cover?

8-You see, this is the problem. All you lot are doing is assuming things and acting like it is pure undistilled truth against all reason. Arrogance. 1-On the contrary. They want to protect the Maidens. The most natural, logical conclusion would be that, even if they did train the Maiden somewhat so she can defend herself in desperate cases, she wouldn't have fought Grimm even 1/6 as often as a Hunter. Because if you want to keep this lady safe, you would make sure she doesn't go to a lion's den unless she has an escort.

2-And making ambushes by Grimm far easier. If we include any possible fear or anxiousness caused by waking up in the middle of a Grimm infested area, then it becomes much more likely. "Natural cover" works both ways, not one-way. And the Grimm are attracted to negativity, so even if she was hidden, unless she has super apathy syndrome, at least some Grimm can detect her.

3-It does prove that she wasn't so far away from civilization however. If she fought Grimm there, it would be the weak ones at best, and even then only a few. Nothing that compares to the ones in Beacon now.

4-Ruby was trained by motherfucking Qrow. She is a very special case. Plus, she did go to areas with multiple Grimm even before reaching Beacon, alone or at least without any actual help, without any trouble or fear either, so I question your claim of "very little field experience".

We have reasons to believe Ruby has good field experience. We have no reasons to believe Amber does as well.

5-Considering Ruby's hand-to-hand skills, I don't think that's something so outstanding or impressive that we should assume she's a total Bruce Lee.

6-He did not pass out like Anon said, but he was obviously tired once he and Nora reached the rest. His stamina is poor, compared to everyone else's. Except maybe Jaune, since he didn't actually do anything too tiresome before the DS fight.

But still, that's pretty irrelevant. Amber doesn't necesarily share his stamina, skill, strength, nor does she necesarily know how to do what he does.

7-Check point 2 again please.

8-And what are you doing so far? Dismissing all our points, and believing only what you want to believe, against all reason.