Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-10390252-20141218201832/@comment-24891101-20150109205640

Just by comparing feats (What is this, SB?), it's hard to say. However, we must allow some conjecture, which I find sufficient to give Adam the edge, though it might not be so blatant a stomp.

We have seen Beacon's upperclassmen are in an altogether different league, effortlessly eliminates many, many Grimm, with much more ease than our protagonists. Professional Hunters can kill basic Grimm with contemptuous ease. Our protagonists can defeat these Grimm, but with some degree of difficulty.

Adam is Blake's mentor and is as such at minimum several years older. He is also a high-level operative for the White Fang, who is assigned tasks within his area of expertise. That is, he has sufficient skill in open battle (other specialties notwithstanding) that he is trusted to eliminate opposition on the train. He may also be an assassin, and therefore potentially expected to escape highly-skilled bodyguards. Blake's combat skill, developed during her time with the White Fang, is sufficient to permit her entry into Beacon. Therefore, the organization's field education of its high-level operatives (and their apprentices) is commensurate with Signal Academy and similar institutions. If she stayed with the organization, she would be educated further in the field, with a particular eye toward killing people, not Grimm.

We can therefore roughly interpolate skill using Blake, Yang, CFVY, and Port. This tells us that Adam's skill is non-trivially greater than Blake's, though not necessarily comparable to Port. Assuming Sun is also a freshman, his combat skill is comparable to the average of RWBY and JNPR.