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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#38826: Sep 13th 2016 at 6:02:41 PM

Eh, it serves it's purpose well enough, but it doesn't seem like it can actually attack or she can make more than one in the moment.

But she use it in conjunction more with dust like that time on the train. It seems really well suited for something like that. I guess she can't get dust as easily as Weiss but it's too bad they never let that happen more often.

[up]She and Weiss seem to do best in team battles.

edited 13th Sep '16 6:07:57 PM by LSBK

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#38827: Sep 13th 2016 at 6:12:26 PM

[up][up] Nah. Every teamfight (Nevermore, Mech Roman, 4v4 tournament) she pulls her weight but doesn't steal the show. In her fight with Roman (with Sun help) she also mostly held her ground, she would've been outmatched on her own but the two of them were more or less even against him.

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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#38828: Sep 13th 2016 at 6:14:19 PM

They were also really out numbered there. She also got the better of him during the previously mentioned train battle.

edited 13th Sep '16 6:14:47 PM by LSBK

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#38829: Sep 13th 2016 at 6:17:58 PM

Well, that was kind of a fluke. Not to mentioned an "and they never used that power again" moment.

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unknowing from somewhere.. Since: Mar, 2014
#38830: Sep 13th 2016 at 6:18:26 PM

Of all member of RWBY, Weiss is the one with more moves on ther own, in a videogame she would be "expert" chararter that you need to dominate.

Is a shane we never seen Roman semblence, I wondering what would be.

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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
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#38832: Sep 13th 2016 at 6:24:24 PM

She ended up dominating that fight after catching him off guard by using the dust with her ability...that's a fluke.

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Soble Since: Dec, 2013
#38833: Sep 13th 2016 at 6:25:51 PM

Ah crap, I was praising Blake for a moment.

[up][up] Nah. Every teamfight (Nevermore, Mech Roman, 4v4 tournament) she pulls her weight but doesn't steal the show. In her fight with Roman (with Sun help) she also mostly held her ground, she would've been outmatched on her own but the two of them were more or less even against him.

In the Nevermore fight she did like zero damage. Really they could've pushed her off the cliff, kept her weapons and still won the fight.

Roman torched her. And that fight was even? Torchwick deflected like every shot they tried to land until Blake leapt in to try and killsteal.

Like the only thing she did against the mech was use Weiss's buff to slice away some missiles, which the team had spent the first half of the fight dodging. Ruby's first formation to give them a smokescreen didn't even involve Blake. Yet another situation she could've fallen off the bridge and her weapon, or a proper grappling hook, could've filled in Blake's contribution to this fight. Yang's also capable of jumping several stories into the air, so she didn't even really need Blake to help her swing around - a simple lunge and punch would've knocked Torchwick senseless.

As for the tournament let's face it, Yang was carrying Team RWBY for most of the tournament.

Blake's Ahri on a team with Garen and Blitzcrank.

edited 13th Sep '16 6:32:16 PM by Soble

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unknowing from somewhere.. Since: Mar, 2014
#38834: Sep 13th 2016 at 6:26:20 PM

[up]pretty much, she beat Rman in less than a minute( i counted, she beat him in 55 seconds) without giving Roman a oportunity to do something.

It become more bullshit in volume 3 where he face Ruby and give ger a good old ultraviolence

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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#38835: Sep 13th 2016 at 6:27:18 PM

That sounds a bit unfair to me. But, again, she really should use that more often.

[up][up]I find it strange that people actually actual use the term "killsteal" seriously.

[up]The implication that you're supposed to give you're opponent/enemy the chance to do things strikes me as odd.

edited 13th Sep '16 6:30:36 PM by LSBK

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
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#38836: Sep 13th 2016 at 6:31:15 PM

That fight was unfair...but I wouldn't call that a negative.

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unknowing from somewhere.. Since: Mar, 2014
#38837: Sep 13th 2016 at 6:31:47 PM

[up][up]Is not giving the oportunity is fight look like rigged, consider there is a lot of videogame logic here, what Blake did was pretty much the equivalent of put close a chararter and smash the button in order to win.

and again it feel odd as Roman fight ruby, the faster chararter in the team and Roman didnt have any problem in beaten the shit out here

edited 13th Sep '16 6:32:20 PM by unknowing

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#38838: Sep 13th 2016 at 6:32:16 PM

She and Sun together landed several hits on Roman. And honestly if you're gonna write away her contributions as "well they could've just kept what she did and get rid of her" then I'm not sure what's the point.

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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#38839: Sep 13th 2016 at 6:34:15 PM

[up][up]But they're not actually videogame characters, and they don't consider it a game.

Applicable tropes aside, that people seriously think "kill stealing" or "not letting your opponent move" is cheating or rigged strikes me as odd. But then again, those accusations strike me as odd in any fighting series, that isn't strictly about competition.

Edit: I mean, I get she doesn't have anywhere near the best track record, but it often seems like people try to actively downplay anything she does, and I find that weird.

edited 13th Sep '16 6:35:35 PM by LSBK

Soble Since: Dec, 2013
#38840: Sep 13th 2016 at 6:34:56 PM

She and Sun together landed several hits on Roman

They landed one.[lol] Blake literally jumped in, slashed at him, and Torchwick parried all of her sh't like a boss. Then Sun jumped in and Torchwick did the same thing over again, and then Blake leapt in and caught him off-guard. At one point Blake tried to blitz Roman and he did a 360' spin to block her next 2-3 attacks that were coming from multiple directions.

EDIT: Oh my bad. Sun jumped on Torchwick's head. So two hits technically.

EDIT: Oop, three. Sun kicked in the abdomen.

But just for posterity:

Like a boss.

edited 13th Sep '16 6:40:08 PM by Soble

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BlackSunNocturne Since: Aug, 2013
#38841: Sep 13th 2016 at 6:37:32 PM

Blake's Ahri on a team with Garen and Blitzcrank.
So.... infinitely more useful?

Because as a League player who's almost gold I can inform you: Garen and Blitzcrank are MAJOR Crutch Characters, whereas Ahri is much more powerful in the right hands.

edited 13th Sep '16 6:40:59 PM by BlackSunNocturne

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#38842: Sep 13th 2016 at 6:41:22 PM

Fights aren't meant to be fair. If you're fighting fair, you're fighting stupid.

In a fair contest, it did still strike me that Roman would defeat Blake. I wouldn't call her win against him on the train a fluke, I'd say it's just that the circumstances favored Blake. Roman got caught off guard and he couldn't go all out without endangering everything.

I see nothing wrong with that myself. Just that it doesn't say much about Blake's fighting skills. Now, if she had maneuvered him into such a scenario, that would be different. She mostly lucked out to have so many factors in her favor, but nothing wrong with having them.

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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#38843: Sep 13th 2016 at 6:42:53 PM

Do we know anything about how people awaken their semblance?

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
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#38844: Sep 13th 2016 at 6:43:54 PM

[up][up]A fair fight has rules, mang...

She was fighting against a villain, there are no rules there.

edited 13th Sep '16 6:44:49 PM by randomness4

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BlackSunNocturne Since: Aug, 2013
#38845: Sep 13th 2016 at 6:46:33 PM

[up][up]From what we've seen/been told, it seems to be something the person eventually finds out themselves.

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#38846: Sep 13th 2016 at 7:18:33 PM

She also lands a hit at the start of the attempted blitz. So, yeah, I'm right.

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unknowing from somewhere.. Since: Mar, 2014
#38847: Sep 13th 2016 at 7:53:09 PM

"Fights aren't meant to be fair. If you're fighting fair, you're fighting stupid. "

In fiction if a fight is not fair, is not a fight is the author picking someone(sorry, I have to said it)

the issue is Roman is able to fight fast protagonist as he manage to hold his own against Blake and Sun, even against Ruby who is probable faster than them and giving a hell of a pain, yet in the traint she dominate without Roman even able to strike once, that dosent look she is awsome, but that Roman was jobbing.

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#38848: Sep 13th 2016 at 8:21:01 PM

Maybe Yang is faster than we think then and we just don't give her enough credit because she looks like a big buff brawler.

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BlackSunNocturne Since: Aug, 2013
#38849: Sep 13th 2016 at 8:25:41 PM

[up]Yang is fast, but she's slow compared to the rest of her team. It's why the Mighty Glacier/Lightning Bruiser argument happened with her. She's a Mighty Glacier in regards to team RWBY, but compared to every other character, she's a Lightning Bruiser

unknowing from somewhere.. Since: Mar, 2014
#38850: Sep 13th 2016 at 8:45:07 PM

[up]Also her style of fight make her less agile, unlike the other who jump, flip and move, Yang tactics is more "CHAAAAARGE!" to the enemy, which work of the time...unless your name is Adam that it.

Yang is a hammer, a pretty good one...but a hammer none the least

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