Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-14610890-20130908015204/@comment-14610890-20140330003720

At first, I tried to make the list  of matches by pairing, strongest Team RWBY member vs strongest Team JNPR member, Second vs Second etc. But I was very torn as to how to rank them.

JNPR I'm fairly confident in my ranking, and I was between Black and Yang for number 1 of RWBY but went with Blake because she has more real battle experience, this left Weiss third which I think sort of undermines her abilities because she has had so much training and she is quite good, so while I put her in third, the gap between them is still very narrow. And I honestly put Ruby as the current weakest RWBY member due to lack of age and experience, like I said, the others seem like they'd be close and Ruby does not seem to be on the same level as Yang, and therefore any of them.

As for my opinion of who would win the fights:

I would give Blake vs Pyrrha I would give to Pyrrha. Blake being fairly comparable to a ninja, she is fast, agile and stealthy, so while she may be able to incapacitate Pyrrha in an ambush, a 1v1 fight would make it very difficult for her to get to Pyrrha, and Pyrrha being as skilled a warrior as it seems, she's used to fighting a variety if types of opponenets, she would be at the ready and would have the speed and reflexes to stop Blake's attacks.

Yang vs Ren, I would give to Yang. Ren is like Blake, not having massive power output and being the type to use speed and skill over brute force. Think about how he took down the King Taijitu, he went for important areas like the eyes to gain an advantage rather than trying to blow them away with force. However, in this case he has to fight something far more dangerous than a pair of giant snake monsters, Yang. And while I don't undermine Yang's impressive speed and agility, she is will known for being a heavy hitter, using a high power output to demolish anything in her path. I would ultimately say that her afore mentioned movement skills give her all the defense she needs from Ren's attacks, however well placed they may be, and he has little means of avoiding her attacks, with no defensive measures and her being too quick for his formidable agility to work against forever.

Weiss vs Nora I say Nora. This one I am more likely to conceit to a counter argument because we still don't know a lot about them. But Weiss is very official with strict formal training, she only knows one way to fight, the "right" way. All the proper stances and moves exactly as they were taught to her, the closer to the correct form she has, the better she is fighting in her mind. That is however, too narrow minded of an approach to fighting and Nora is a perfect example of why. While we haven't seen her fight much, her personality would most likely be reflected in her combat with wild, creative, and unconventional attack strategies, Weiss simply is not prepared for a free radical like Nora and the strange approach she may take.

I will leave Jaune out of the matter entirely and discuss Ruby vs Pyrrha. Pyrrha wins. Pyrrha, Pyrrha Pyrrha. while Jaune is the default lose to anyone, Ruby is probably the next lowest down, default lose to everyone except Jaune. This is admittedly speculation, but like I said, I think Ruby is not on the same level as most of the other characters yet, she has had a full two years less to spend training and a lot can happen in two years, she is entirely out classed by any of the other characters, and someone like Pyrrha who is likely one of the best among all 8 of these characters, would have a particularly easy time with her.