Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20161211174540/@comment-27144409-20161214230353

Penny is probably quite inexperienced compared to even Ruby, but her potential, at the very least her destructive potential, is considerable. If she returns she could wind up getting upgraded over time, and she would almost certainly improve to some extent with practice, experience, and some experimentation.

Penny could be considered to be an inferior combatant to an experienced Huntsman, but we've only seen her in two real fights, and one of those was set up to ensure Penny's defeat. Despite this she was able to hold her own for a while. In the other fight she was able to defeat, no, destroy two aircraft modified for CAS and send the third running.

Of course she is at a lower level than the experienced Huntsmen. She's probably got less than a decade of experience, and that was largely controlled. Give her time, assuming she come's back in some form.