#he was definitely better suited to fight people than grimm from a purely rule-of-cool viewpoint

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To be fair to Clover the main character of Hunter x Hunter also began fighting with a fishing pole.

thats true, but the world rules/weird physics/crazy vibes in general of hunter x hunter kind of makes it feel less ridiculous (theres a girl who fights with a vacuum cleaner and the show presents her 100% seriously). plus the hxh fights are a lot slower-paced and reliant on suspense, which works with gon's fishing pole because then the main conflict becomes "can gon simply swipe this one thing from someone with his fishing rod." the rwby fights are super quick with a lot of actions going on, so it's a little funny when clover is just throwing out his fishing line in the middle of a fight haha (like the one against the geist in the dust mine). to be fair though oobleck fights with a coffee cup though so. rwby's been having abnormal weapons

i feel like i should add that i think clover was actually a pretty badass character, and the way he used the rod itself as a sort of staff made the weapon more versatile. it ended up working really well in the clover/qrow/tyrian/robyn fights. i only wish we had gotten to see more of his fighting style tbh, especially BECAUSE his weapon was unique

#that being said ... he looks like a clown when hes first fighting the geist and he just runs up to it and starts #throwing out the fishing line and trying to hook it lol #he was definitely better suited to fight people than grimm from a purely rule-of-cool viewpoint #which i think someone actually pointed out in the replies. the pole is for close combat and the fishing line is to disable opponents #tee.post