Board Thread:News and Events/@comment-933831-20160127210719/@comment-25924729-20160128072428

A quick summary of Vale:

She's aLightning Bruiser type fighter. Her skills are balanced, with average strength, speed and durabilty. No major weaknesses or strengths, but plenty of experience with Dust and a small lack in stamina. She uses Dust Tattoos to enhance her body's natural abilities (RPG term: Spell Buffs), enabling her to hit harder and run/jump faster. She specializes in speed and agility, close range and fighting against multiple weak opponents.

Strength: Nothing spectacular normally, but the use of White (impact) Dust allows her to deal a single, extra powerful punch equivalent to a sledgehammer strike. Destroys wood and stone, but can be stopped by metal objects or armour. 5 uses maximum.

Speed: Vale's greatest strength. Gravity Dust reduces gravity around her body temporarily, enabling extra speed and jumps up to 10 meters vertically/across. Her semblance also enables her to scale vertical surfaces and grip the ground better.

Stealth: Normally, her semblance allows her to drop onto enemies from above for an ambush, but with the lack of tall buildings or obstacles on this arena, it's unlikely she will rely on stealth.

Endurance: Physically, her stamina is average and will be a non-issue in the short run. But her semblance and Dust Tattoos have very limited use. Vale can deal heavy damage but only for a short and inconsistent time. It is also impossible to reload/ make new tattoos during battle, so once she runs out, she has nothing to rely on but normal skill.

Defense: She wears no armour, and has moderate aura. Typically she relies on speed to dodge attacks instead of tanking them, but can take several hits too before going down.

Weapons: Vendetta. A Claw Gauntlet X Katar X Wrist mounted crossbow. Works best in close to medium range. Fires explosive bolts with force equivalent to a regular grenade. Also uses Lava Dust which gives the weapon a burning effect similar to a welding torch. Additionally, Vendetta has an autonomous mode which allows it to move by itself with vocal commands from Vale, enabling a two directional attack/distraction.

Aside from this, she also has retractable faunus claws on her other hand and feet, and her Dust Tattoos.

Teamwork: She and Amilanthior are both Pilgrims, meaning they would know each other and their partner's abilities beforehand. But Vale tends to be reckless and may try to engage both enemies by herself (LEEROYY JENKINS!!!!!). While she may sustain heavy damage from this, it could serve as an unintentional distraction for Amilanthior to sneak behind and ambush them.

To spare everyone from reading the Great Wall of Textia, i'll make another post soon explaining how these factors may come in play considering her opponents and the terrain.