Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-62.155.218.241-20171021220319/@comment-26397825-20171113225251

Considering Blake would have likely been reluctant to go on into the doubles and singles round where a lot more focus would be on her and any member of the White Fang could be watching and tell Adam where she was, she probably would have voted for Yang to go on. Ruby would vote for Yang because she's her older sister and is awesome. Yang would step up to go forward, because she'd see herself as being the main powerhouse of the team. Weiss would agree to Yang because she hits hard.

They paired her with an agile fighter to combat her weakness to agile combatants. Ruby likely would have stepped forward, only to have Weiss point out that beyond her scythe and speed, she's not really that suited for one on one combat, especially since she has no hand to hand ability to speak of. Blake would again not step forward for reasons I already explained, and likely offer for Weiss to go forward - the spotlight suits her wants of proving herself strong and that not all Schnee's are like Jacques, plus she is a very versatile agile fighter; she has Dust, glyphs which have already shown their support abilities both against the Gaint Nevermore and Roman in the Paladin, and a very technical based style to offset Yang's more instinctual style. Yang would basically be happy with whoever, so since Blake and Weiss are both for Weiss going ahead and Yang doesn't mind either way, Weiss would be the one chosen.

It sounds good on paper. It is theoretically a very good team. But what they both failed to take into account was defense.

Yang doesn't dodge or block; it's her strength but it's also her biggest weakness. What's the point in taking all those hits and growing stronger if she can't hit the person to begin with? Each one chips away at her aura, and all the enemy needs to do is hit her hard enough to drop her aura to 15% and she's out.

Weiss is agile, but she has pretty much no defense to speak of - and as Flynt showed, she's very easy to take advantage of and send off balance.

Basically RWBY voted for a very offensive-based team, and failed to take defense into account. If they had, Blake would have been a better choice to swap out for either Yang or Weiss - she can work well with both of them, it just means they would actually use tactics instead of splitting up and ignoring each other's fights.