Talk:Ruby Rose/@comment-28099668-20171116205811/@comment-28288412-20171116212101

I will still shoot down the idea regardless of how the show treats it. Because she doesn't need to. I mean, what about Weiss, Blake, any other weapon-based fighter that doesn't utilise h2h style fighting? Do they need to to be trained in cqc as well? No. Because they are never going to be shown without their weapons nor would it benefit them to train in a style that if they were stuck using 99 times out of 100 they would lose even with it.

Ruby has been beaten without her weapon, yes, about 3 times that I recall. The mook underground, literally the only fight it woulda helped because it is a mook. Mercury, who she would've been trounced by even with cqc training sufficient enough not to take away from her scythe skill. Roman on the airship, once again woulda beat her after she was disarmed regardless of training.

Now I know, they are going to set it up to have the cqc pay off because of fucking course they are. But I bet it will only be one or two instances and we will never see the fruits of the training again because that is simply not how Ruby fights.