Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14640999-20140724024429/@comment-11188061-20140808072534

First, I think you forget that she's an android. Super speed? Reacting to it at the beginning might be a hard task, but given a few seconds of calculation she can adjust herself appropriately to counter it. She can probably catch most of anything within her sensors as long as they're not moving at the speed of light, and countering it requires ''much less movement and effort. ''For humans this would be hard, sure, but for a computer? And what part of her spinning blades looked slow to you?

Again, Penny is an android. She probably has X-Ray eyes for all we know, which is why her lasers cut an airplane but did not harm a single person. She's heavy enough that Ruby lost her strength halfway boosting her in Episode 3 with her Semblance, so we can even interpret that every part of her body is made of tough steel. Have you seen how she stopped a speeding truck with her bare hands? Have you seen her ''pull down an entire airplane by herself? ''Blitz her? Even Nora won' be stupid enough to fight her at close range, because not only they cannot ensure a quick knockout (since she's an android, I repeat, and not human) with the usual tactics, they won't stand a chance if they got hit by even a single blow. And that is not counting the blades, but Penny's pure strength.

So we're left with long range attacks. Guess who has the bigger and badder and longer ranged gun between Weiss and Penny? Hell, take the entire Team RWBY together and get them into a long range bombardment combat with Penny alone - guess whose gun will come out victorious in the end? Who even says that her laser needs 4 seconds to charge up with her opponents being human?

I also doubt that Ironwood would craft a machine as intricate and sentient as Penny that cannot even beat a First Year student one on one, and if that was really the case she would've been scrapped a long time ago. Even the RWBY creators themselves have commented that Penny is OP.