Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-14610890-20131216223649/@comment-16502426-20131217081516

I think prodigy or not, Pyrrha would wipe the floor with Ruby. I get the feeling that a semblance of polarity is a rare and powerful gift when it comes to tournament-style matches. Ruby would be especially at a disadvantage, since her weapon is actually probably the slowest moving and largest of team RWBY. Her speed semblance wouldn't be enough to stay ahead of Pyrrha's magnetic fields. Interestingly, Pyrrha's semblance is actually a bit on the weak side against Grimm, to constast with its near-OP state against other fighters.

Nora and Yang is probably the most even match of these. Both of them are powerful, both have powerful single-burst ranged attacks, and both are batcrap cuckoo. I think it would be a drawn out battle that mostly involved them dodging and blocking each other's attacks. Eventually, one of them would be able to press the advantage, and I think that would be Yang. Magnhild's hammer form is just a bit too slow to keep Yang dodging I think. and Yang can fire from range without having to change forms. In fact, I think Nora's best chance would be to keep it in grenade launcher mode and use it to block and swing while still being able to shoot. Yang wins after a long battle.

Blake vs. Ren (and it's Ren, not Lie) is probably a bit one-sided. Not that Ren is particularly weak, but he just can't do anything to her I think. Though we haven't really seen his semblance yet. Still, we've seen that blocking rapid-fire bullets is practically second-nature to Blake, and the little blades are such short range that he'd never even get close enough to use them. Blake would quickly overwhelm him and win.

Weiss vs. Jaune: As many have said, this would really not be much of a match. He'd probably do his typical charge in way to fast stuff, she'd just dodge it all, probably toss him around with some glyphs for good measure while he would be off balance, and just methodically defeat him. If he ever learns to properly use aura, semblance, and to be more defensive, it could eventually at least be an interesting match. But not as he is now.