Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-226878-20140806074858/@comment-25949597-20150124182158

@Anon

From the way they described it in the Vol 2 Director's Commentary, that was just Cardin being a terrible leader, nothing else involved.

The way I see it:

Cardin: The tank, can take and deal out a lot of damage, but is TERRIBLE at tactics so he ends up screwing his team over.

Russel: The "rogue" of sorts, the quickest and most agile, the Ren of the team and the Dust user (considering his daggers have canisters on them)

Dove: The all-around and best at fighting one on one. Seems to be the most acrobatic and is excellent at parrying.

Lark: He got taken out first so it's hard to tell, but his halberd would probably be excellent for crowd control and slower moving Grimm.

CRDL has good talent, they just have a terrible leader. At least Russel and Dove worked together to hold Pyrrha back, Cardin just charged blindly and knocked out his most capable teammate.