Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25397424-20150121015939/@comment-26028321-20150121230519

I'm not sure we have enough evidence to appropriately give them stats, but If i were to guess I wouldn't say she's balanced in all stats, probably higher in agility and lower in strength.

I think if she can dodge around Yang she could beat her, and if she couldn't dodge her punches then she would lose. Her strikes would also have to count because getting Yang's Semblance going would be really bad for her.

Weiss would be harder to analyze because of her versatility. I also feel this is like a battle of book smarts vs. street smarts.

In the case of Ruby, I think Blake could dodge her, but that's also sort of up to the limit of her Semblance and how well Ruby can follow her movements. Ruby is a prodegy and at least likely will be the strongest of them in time, but I dunno how much the age gap holds her back.

My thought supporting Blake is the ammount of experiance she likely has had. She had Adam as a mentor so she probably learned to fight from him. Weiss was likely taught by someone, but probably spent most of her learning in learning about dust and it's applications and less on actual combat (though she had to have had some). Ruby had Qrow and probably the best for them of the teachers (Same type of weapon even). Yang.. I imagine was mostly self taught, learned from teachers at signal the same as Ruby and all, but I don't imagine she had as close a relationship as the others with any one specific teacher. (but this is all speculation of course).

But on top of having a good and dedicated teacher, she lived a hard life. Weiss though she mentions her family has been at war for generations, seemed nervous in her first Grimm encounter and even reminded herself of the basics, so I feel she hasn't had much practical application of her skills (though she seems to have at least some of that out by now~). Yang and Ruby probably had more average lives. But Yang was born into the shift of the White Fang, and presumably had a lot of experiance fighting. And I'm guessing that would give her an advantage, for at least right now.

I wouldn't say the fights on the train are too meaningful, she did win her fight, but I don't think Torchwick is as skilled as the other two, he also didn't really try to fight her too hard it seems.

But going outside of RWBY I don't think she would stand a chance (Unless we just add CRDL maybe~).

This type of speculation though is why I want more of Glynda's combat class. There's a lot of really cool story stuff implied and tons of interested characters outside of the school and so on, but The potential at least for the sparring matches is high and a good way to have people fight without it being a serious deal.