Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-410526-20160130155211/@comment-26018514-20160203020328

100.32.22.15 wrote: DiegoAnime3000 wrote: While there's nothing I'd love more than having two pretty ponies serenade me, I'think we'd get further staging a gel-tervention for Blaine than singing lady music. Well, that escalated quickly.

I'm thinking that since Ruby's a scythe user, she didn't actually think "hey, maybe I should branch out onto other weapon types or fighting skills on the off chance I might need them", thus explaining her lack of skill and reduced effectiveness with other weapons or when unarmed.

- Surana Considering her weapons fetish, it seems unwise to suggest she sucks with any other weapon just because she cannot yet fight unarmed. Furthermore, since Qrow appears to wield a weapon that uses a sword mode and gun mode of another type, it can be inferred she was at least trained in those weapons.