Talk:Team CRDL/@comment-100.38.66.164-20140904012518/@comment-4010415-20140904031448

I don't know if you noticed, but the only members of CRDL who showed any actual teamwork were Dove and Russel. Sky got knocked out early on, and Cardin just attacked when Pyrrha wasn't looking at him and knocked Dove out.

Besides, remember the first thing out of Russel's mouth when he saw the Ursa Major? "That's a big Ursa!" They had probably never seen an Ursa that size before and weren't confident about fighting it. I mean, in the Emerald Forest, Yang only fought "normal" size Ursi.

Also, I'm not completely sure Russel could've just killed it with his spin attack, since Russel seems more of a DPS type fighter. That is, Damage Per Second. Swift attacks that come at the cost of being weaker, the smaller amount of damage being compensated by him being able to deliver many attacks within a small amount of time and be light enough to dodge attacks.

And if Cardin used fire... It could've caused a repeat of Weiss in the Emerald Forest. It even looks like the ground in Forever Fall gets covered in the red leaves.

I'm sure they did well in the initiation, but I don't think they encountered any giant grimm like RWBY and JNPR did.