User blog comment:Gundam Legilis/Faunus... inferior or superior?/@comment-10380701-20140419153012

In theory, a straight-out brawl will be a draw. But once abilities are taken into consideration... Faunus have the advantage. At night.

So far, the only difference between humans and faunus is that the faunus have night vision as well as a gigantic weakpoint, which is their animal traits.

Considering what we've seen with half-animal characters in fictionland, having a tail is a colossal disadvantage, as yanking it would hurt as hell. Long-eared faunus have this disadvantage as well. Sure, you can get some faunus who've trained their tails to be used as an extra appendage (Hi Sun), but that's likely not very common with the general populace of faunus.

Beyond that, it's mostly an equal footing. But the Faunus has a tiny edge with their stealth capabilities, courtesy of their night vision, which is a great advantage in ambushes. Meanwhile, the tail weakness isn't gonna be effective against faunus with small animal traits.