User blog comment:Zhangnian/Video Game Logic/@comment-15586611-20141027131110

My only nitpicks are Pyrrha and Sun being listed as high-tiered characters while roman was not. Pyrrha seems powerful, but Mercury correctly notes that it's because she doesn't flaunt her semblance and tries to use it in ways people won't notice at all. While one might consider that high-level technique, it obviously can't be be paralleled in video games. With sun, we really haven't seen him do anything comparable to anyone else listed as high-tier. Furthermore, these two are still hunters-in-training, so it's safe to assume any fully fledged huntsman like Glynda or Dr. Oobleck is a far more dangerous opponent.

With Roman, let's look back at his fighting record shall we:

-in V1 Ep1, His fleeing from Ruby was a tactical retreat, having nothing to gain from sticking around

-in V1 Ep16, He held off Blake and Sun together, immediately responded to Ruby showing up by shooting her, and only fled once Penny showed her OPness.

-in V2 Ep4, He might have been considered to be far stronger in the Paladin, so one might argue that the fact he still lost doesn't reflect too well on him, But it still took all of team RWBY together to do so, and once again, he left once the mech was destroyed.

-in V2 Ep11, He finally gets defeated, but that can be attributed to the dust Weiss gave Blake. Not only was he not likely to have expected it, but it's clear that dust, if used correctly, can be just that much of a gamechanger. Furthermore, even though he was beaten, the plan with the train still went off perfectly. I'd say a definite case of losing a battle to win a war.

Doesn't seem so weak does he, now. Certainly able to beat any hunter-in-training 1-on-1 in normal circumstances.