Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-19267090-20141125000403/@comment-25419966-20141210043530

LOTR Lord of Lances wrote: PerhapsTheOtherOne wrote: 73.42.187.52 wrote: ^as I said, Yang + Ruby make up the difference, if either get to top strength or speed, they could likely 1-hit Kill just about anything, the problem is getting there, and we have not been told Goliaths have anything but strength(so any special moves or other high stats would impact what I calculated), so unless yang gets gored she would get tough really quick, all the girls have to do is dodge like champs until then, and unless Grimm change entire body types(species), I don't think all Goliaths are centuries old, just that particular herd. But you meant those specific Goliaths. As well, being so large and powerful, one attack would likely put any member of team RWBY out of commission, since they're basically bigger than smaller iterations of Godzilla, and the size alone means if a single attack doesn't kill any member of the team, I'm calling utter BS. As well, they're likely extremely intelligent, due to having hundreds of years of experience. They'll know that they won't be fast enough to keep up with the little Huntresses, but would also know their strength will overwhelm them with a single strike. And it took dragging a Nevermore up a cliff using Glyph-assisted speed to chop its head off. A Nevermore, with a Goliath being unquestionably more powerful. Yeah there was a reason why I placed a gap between the Goliath and other Grimm. The reason being because of such raw power potential as well as the Goliath being depicted after a well-known herd animal. Those types of animals are extremely protective of each other and work well in group tactics to survive. The point being is that combining, centuries of experience in being groups and probably fighting gives the Goliaths a hell of an edge against any threat.

Besides, there is quite a gap in power between a B-rank Threat and A-Rank Threat. Not to mention the higher tiers. Just imagine the gap between each subsequent rank increasing by a magnitude of maybe three each time.

Well... that would mean anything C-rank and below is just trash and the entire threat ranking system should be revaluated.... Shit, more work. Sigh.

Anyways I am thinking of writing up a Huntress/Huntsman ranking system on which threats they can handle, let me know about any feedback. In terms of team RWBY taking on the Goliaths (Speculation here)... they can do it, if they fought a single one, but they should be extremely cautious. None of that bullshit of Yang tanking the blows, because if you calculate the force that one of those Grimm could generate with a full-charge... It would be like one of those airships crashing into the person at full speed. Maybe Yang could survive that (this is fiction after all), but I wouldn't bet on it. Most people usually wouldn't survive if something crashed into them. If they face more than five at a time I bet they would be cornered and have to escape.

Team Juniper in terms of facing a single Goliath... Well I think you guys pretty much know the result already Taking on goliaths could be like fighting the oliphants from lord of the rings all you have to do is get on top of them and there's not much they can do but try and shake them off? at the end are you implying juniper would succeed or failif they fought one its not very clear.