Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-114.142.221.203-20150819060941/@comment-24198837-20150826181435

I call bullshit on your bullshit.

Your example of a 15 year old being stronger than a 30-year old military trained fighter follows inherently faulty logic, as it ignores several important factors.

Age does not equal power with fighters of the same class, you have that much correct. A 15 year old civilian girl would have no chance against a 30 year old, civilian man. But we're not talking civilians.

All of those atlas soldiers are just that - soldiers; Maybe they have their aura unlocked, but they certianly don't have it trained. Not like Ruby. Ruby is a super soldier. She's been training since at least high school and likely before that. She has strength, speed, and durability that far outclasses theirs.

As I love the series, I will once again use Halo as support. John, at 14, with no armour and just having been recently modified, fights and beats 4 ODST's in hand to hand. And kills a few. While trying not to.

Age doesn't equal power when one fighter completely outclasses another. It's no wonder Ruby, Yang, or any Beacon student could tear through normal soldiers; They have them outclassed in every way, as John outclasses ODSTs. The standard soldier in the case of RWBY and the ODST in the case of Halo could be far older, better trained, and a more skilled fighter than their opposition, but the super soldiers in both scenarios have their normal counterparts so utterally outmatched in speed and strength that no amount of training can save the mooks.

Which brings me to my point. Saying, simply because 15 year olds can beat 30 year olds in this universe, that age is irrelevent to combat skill is inherently false. You're not looking at people of the same power.

In the case of hunters, it seems age=training=power, simple as that. Team RWBY>Team CFVY>Professors, almost certianly.

And, because Hunters are a time-tested orginization that's been around forever and has likely been improving all along, I find it hard to believe Raven would be somehow "Better trained" at the same age.

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Let me rephrase what I was saying originally, perhaps to more clarification: Yang is clearly leagues below Neo, and Neo is clearly leagues below Raven. That puts Raven at least two teirs of skill above Yang, and potentially more. If they are the same age, this makes no sense. Team RWBY's and JNPR's members are all of comparable skill levels, with the exception of Jaune, and it's safe to assume SSSN is on that level as well (considering Sun faired better against Torchwick than Blake). This gives us an idea as to the average power/skill of first years - which, as Yang demonstrated, is far below Neo. Raven has no logical reason to be so strong at that age - not stronger than the strongest 15-17 year olds in the world.