User blog comment:Drache Mace/Who was Yang looking for?/@comment-96.254.157.84-20140809204435/@comment-96.254.157.84-20140809215525

You do realize that Gambol Shrouds reach is much greater reach, moves a lot faster, and has a greater possibility of losing control when Blake uses it's ribbon/sickle form than Crescent Rose.

The possibility of Ruby hurting anyone, even if she goes all out, is dangerously unlikely. She is more competant with weapons than any of the other cast considering hers is the most dangerous in the world (according the Ozpin). She even uses it for non-lethal purposes despite having a higher rate of killing than any other weapon.

And if she didn't have her teammates, she would be vastly overwhelmed by an army of Grimm as she didn't even manage to cut the Beowolf in the Emerald Forest, Part 1, most likely because her scythe doesn't have a lot of weight to it. In fact, if you look back through Season 1, Ruby and Yang (assuming the Ursa was only knocked back) never killed any Grimm without the assistance of her teammates, as opposed to Weiss and Blake who made confirmed kills.

Ruby was knocked back into Weiss by the Beowolf - she didn't crash.