Board Thread:News and Events/@comment-933831-20160123205543/@comment-25169271-20160124160920

To both of you, you seem to forget RWBY fighters can eeasily deflect bullets that move at super sonic speeds with their weapons. You know tiny objects that move at supersonic speeds. You forget that these people aren't normal humans, they're Huntsmen and Huntresses. Also once again, Aura provides more than just protection. It gives super strength, endurance, and presumably the super human reflexes needed to smack bullets out of the air, which is humanly impossible. Hell its nearly humanly impossible to smack an ARROW out of the air and those move at like 1/5 the speed of a bullet but that's easy enough for RWBY verse people.

Also you're assuming the tanks here would be going at each other. Darian and Penelope are generally smart enough to know they need team work to take down the big tank guy (if not immediately then very quickly after the fight) so they'd switch off, assuming they get the chance, and have penelope distract leo while Darian brings the up close Melee fight to Azulius.

And fine if you want me to point out Darian's weakness to you, it's a few things. 1: he's much smaller than most male RWBY fighters giving him a disadvantage in size, 2: he has no dust attacks or high level knowlege of their usage, 3: his moveset is kind of limited and either relies on rapidly breaking the opponents defence or doing quick 'drive by' attacks where he runs in, hits for a second then runs away. Also once again Darian needs good traction to use his semblance. A smart opponent would realize this and say freeze the ground, or get grease or oil on the road or something. 4: While his weapon is very good at hitting hard, its got a pretty slow follow up shot, needing to reload and recharge. He cant just sling death bolts down at his opponent. So if he does need to shoot he gives away his position. In a fight with team work that can open him up to getting attacked from the other person. 5: while he can swing his sword like someone from Devil May Cry, it is stil relatively slow compared to a katana, short sword, or other lighter weight weapon. 6: like you pointed out in this build he has no armor other than his aura. Any attacks he decides to take or deflect with his body will have to drain his aura.

Also if we could get Tsu to weigh in on the speed arguement here, because he's generally the one saying that most of the fighers can react and move at like Mach 10+.