Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-26039386-20151207052048/@comment-26397825-20151207053001

Aura protects her fists, is all I can say. I guess because it's so close to her hands the spread wouldn't be enough at such a short distance to do more than maybe graze her fists at most, and if it's just a scratch then her aura would protect her from it.

Ruby uses her scythe as a bludgeoning weapon with a blade, slamming into her opponents using her pure speed. It's the only reason it's effective for her.

Weiss has glyphs which make her travel faster than they can shot her, plus she has Dust for ranged effectiveness and can make shields for herself to protect her from gunfire.

Blake's weapon is also a pistol and it flies by the recoil of said pistol. She never throws it in sword form. Plus, this is a fictional world, they probbaly have alloys which are stronger but lighter than anything we have.

They are submachine gunes, and Ren suppliments this with advanced aura techniques.

Pyrrha's semblance helps her use her weapons effectively in combat, allowing her to throw the shield as an extra ranged weapon along with using the rifle, and then she can switch straight to melee, which gives her great versatility.

It's a grenade launcher hammer, which has lower recoil than a rocket launcher. And she knows how to use it, as she is light enough to use it to throw herself around.

Sun's weapon is also a quarterstaff. It's very useful.

Jaune's shield can withstand sniper rounds that are capable of shatering boulders, I don't think he has to worry. Plus he has a lot of aura (as in, more than average) and his semblance has been theorised to have something to do with reflection.