User blog comment:SomeoneYouUsedToKnow/"They are just standing around and talking"/@comment-34633327-20171126210248/@comment-4010415-20171126220502

Plus, most fights in Volumes 1-3 happened because it was actually feasible and reasonable for them to happen.

Volume 1:


 * Ruby vs Henchmen and Roman, and Glynda vs Cinder, happened because it makes sense for that to happen with Ruby stopping the robbery.


 * The fights throughout the initiation happened because it makes sense for them to fight a bunch of Grimm during their initiation.


 * Weiss vs Boarbatusk happened because it makes sense for her to fight a Grimm during Grimm Studies class.


 * Jaune vs Cardin - it makes sense for the school to have a sparring class.


 * Jaune vs Ursa Major - it makes sense for them to run into Grimm while on their field trip.


 * Blake, Sun, and Penny vs Roman and the White Fang - it makes sense for them to have to fight when stopping a robbery.

Volume 2:


 * Food fight - Could reasonably happen in the cafeteria.


 * Paladin fight - Cinder's group was supplying the White Fang with stolen Paladin prototypes, and Roman unveiled one to get them interested. It was pretty stupid of him to pilot it out in the open and charge down a busy highway in it with the White Fang emblem painted on the side, though. Good example of the writing suffering because of a fight scene. "We need an excuse for this cool scene to happen. Have Roman be an idiot!"


 * Pyrrha's fights in sparring class - Again, makes sense for the school to have a sparring class. Also, Cinder was having Mercury and Emerald figure out what they could about the other students' skills, abilities, etc for her plan in the tournament where she arranged who would fight who.


 * Mountain Glenn fights - It's an old city that got overrun by Grimm, and like Oobleck said, the White Fang's negative attitudes were attracting Grimm.


 * No Brakes - Super makes sense. They had to try to stop the train, and the bad guys were trying to stop them from interfering.


 * Breach - The bad guys' plan was to fill the city with Grimm.

Volume 3's huge amount of fights is because it was a tournament arc. It's not much of a tournament arc without getting to see the tournament fights.

Volume 4:


 * RNJR vs Geist - Makes sense 'cause they've been out in the field for a while and could earn money by taking missions. Plus, of course, Ruby would wanna help out if she overheard a village was having a Grimm problem while they were passing through.


 * Blake and Sun vs Sea Dragon - Ships can get attacked by aquatic Grimm, so Blake traveling by ship was a good time to have an aquatic Grimm fight.


 * RNJR and Qrow vs Tyrian fights - Salem wanted Tyrian to go get Ruby, and JNR and Qrow didn't want him to take her because he's a bad guy.


 * Yang vs Tai practice - After sitting around for months, of course Yang would need to get back into practice.


 * RNJR vs Nuckelavee - Out in the wild in a ruined village, good way to resolve the Ren backstory mini arc by giving Ren closure.

Volume 5:


 * Weiss vs Lancers and Queen Lancer - Aerial Grimm sometimes attack airships, Weiss was on an airship, they needed a way for her to not make it to Mistral so she'd get captured by Raven. Boom.


 * Yang vs Worst Bandits - They looked for an excuse for this fight to happen, to be honest.