Board Thread:News and Events/@comment-24678303-20160112062752/@comment-5704503-20160115172659

Actually jester may I remind you that your point about raven being poor in terms of melee is invalid because you auto hit  and didnt give me a chance to react because you

"kinda wanted to end the spree for a bit."

to answer your question raven is agile, and usually uses acrobatics to get away from any form of melee attacks, He doesnt always rely on his dust, rather he relies on his opponents to make stupid choices or good ones, hes been trained to use anything in his environment he can quickly analyze weaponry via usage of the lessons he learned in weaponcraft, and point out any flaws he can see in the weapons, now yes his semblance is tricky, however he and Mariposa can both take a major advantage from his power and weaponry, mariposa can attach his grenades to her arrows and fire them and when they explode raven can manipulate the outcoming element or activated dust, he has 5 grenade types, seeking, scatter, gravitational, fragmentive and tripwires, and he can set them to timed explosions, normal fuse or contact detonation. If serena were to use her semblance she would put BOTH herself and Seager at a high disadvantage because raven can use her icicles as his own weapon, and not put raven because hes more resilient to dust and elemental attacks but maybe mariposa at a disadvantage, remember he Manipulates any form of dust and can easily hijack the oncoming attack via usage of his wind dust and shift it into a vaccum like wind and absorb the icicles and then send it right back at them, or he can just zone them out via his semblance and shift the wind dust and add a stream of flame dust into a quartet of fire tornados and try to burn and eject them out of the arena, in simpler terms  heres a list of some things he can do against both of them.

Serena

Her rockets can be easily be blocked by his wind dust shifted into a tornado, or he can just create a barrier of ice and just add onto it.

In terms of her semblance he can melt the ice with fire dust and manipulate the water/Steam and spread it all around the field, to create a thick mist and make it harder for them to find him and mariposa, plus he can shift the steam itself into a quartet of steam cyclones, in terms of the water he can fire thunder dust and electrify the whole field, plus her ice shards can conduct electricity and create an electrical web for him to manipulate because of the remnatns of electricity flowing through the shards and making a current, simulatneously the ice would melt and he can either freeze it with ice dust or spread it all around still electrified in terms of close range/melee hed have a 50/50 chance, were she to foolishly fire her gauntlets directly at him all it would take is to use any of his grenades to take the hit and possibly destroy or cause her gauntlets to malfunction depending on the element, were she to latch onto him he may very well lose but he can take both himself and her out and suicide with all of his grenades activated leaving mariposa and seager, or he can just use his gauntlets and fire any stream of dust he can at her to get her off depending on the dust hes using.

Seager

this ones tricky but hes only melee reliant so it makes him easy to zone out and eject from the fight via his grenades or his semblance maniplating the dust coming out of the explosions.

in close range seager has a good advantage but raven can turn his own weapon against him by using his tripwires, he knows hand to hand combat and is well versed in it, he can also sneakily attach one of his grenades to seagers body or weapon and deal massive ammounts of damage  to him.

Seager is weak against cold elements and raven normally uses the following combinations

Wind and fire

Wind and ice

Fire and ice

Ice and Thunder

Ice and water

Gravity and Fire

Raven has a multitude of combinations and can combine any of his dust via his weapon which has 3 rotating chambers that can fill his weaponry or fire from his weapon so theres really no telling what he can do unless if an RP is allowed for this fight.

Also you didnt mention the arena so theres literally no telling whats to happen until theres further details given to me. Until then I will stay by the side of my team having a chance.