Talk:RWBY: Amity Arena/@comment-29907776-20180607140308/@comment-25936766-20180616133045

There is, though. To summarize:

1>She's weak and pathetic, for starters. 2nd Year yet allows herself to be bullied by a 1st Year who didn't even have half the experience she does both academically and in actual combat. On an Academy that literally trains people to become monster-hunting warriors.

2>Everything about her screams "dependance", she depends on others for everything. With Cardin, she doesn't tell him off by herself, Yatsu solves it for her. In combat, her weapon is based on copy-pasting other people's weapons.

And her very Semblance - which remember, reflect personality - is based around imitating other people's moves, literally doing what other people do, as if the whole idea of "Individuality" was alien to her.

Ruby at the very least can stand on her own, even Jaune in Volume 1 stood on his own against Cardin and an Ursa. Hell, even Cardin himself is better by virtue of being an individual and using his own weapon and style instead of just copying others.

So yes, everything about Velvet beyond her character design is garbage, and her character design itself is only subjectively "good".