The best episodes of RWBY
Ranked by viewer rating, highs first. Lit marks on the season rail place this list across the run. Vote on a placement to back it or contest it.
- 01
Blake and Sun find Torchwick supplying advanced armaments to a group of radicals, but the two are discovered. All of RWBY must unite to defeat their enemy's newest weapon.
- 02
What is your favorite fairy tale?
- 03
In which a dessert is assembled.
- 04
As the battle for beacon reaches a close, Pyrrha makes a decision that changes everything. When it ends, Ruby discovers there is more to her than she thought.
- 05
Ruby Rose finds herself in the middle of a robbery committed by famous criminal Roman Torchwick. Her efforts to stop him attract the attention of Professor Ozpin, head of Beacon Academy, who grants her special admission to his school.
- 06
Jaune makes the mistake of flirting with Weiss but finds a friend in star athlete Pyrrha Nikos, while Ruby is horrified to learn the details of Beacon's initiation ritual.
- 07
Ruby, Weiss, Blake, Yang, Jaune, Pyrrha, and fellow students Nora and Ren fight for their lives against the monstrous inhabitants of the Emerald Forest in their first true test as Huntsmen and Huntresses.
- 08
The Badge and the Burden, Pt. 2
While Weiss struggles with her pride, Ruby begins to really wonder if the headmaster made a mistake in making her leader of team RWBY.
- 09
A new semester at Beacon begins in a messy way as teams RWBY and JNPR go at it in a knockdown, drag-out food fight. Meanwhile, sinister forces gather, ready to strike at an unsuspecting kingdom.
- 10
Blake, restless ever since her encounter with Torchwick, convinces the rest of team RWBY to help her hunt down the criminal. Cinder initiates the next phase of her plan.
- 11
Ruby and Oscar begin training in hand-to-hand combat. Yang finds Raven's camp, but the discovery of Weiss' kidnapping sours their reunion.
- 12
Ruby and the rest of the gang meet with Professor Lionheart at Haven Academy, unaware that they are walking right into a trap.
- 13
Hazel's past is brought to light. Jaune discovers something about himself. Raven, Vernal, and Cinder enter the Vault.
- 14
In which the rules of a game are broken.
- 15
In which new acquaintances are made.
- 16
In which plans and schedules are made.
- 17
In which some tea is spilled.
- 18
After (literally) dropping into the vast Emerald Forest, Ruby and the other initiates scramble to find their new partners and survive against the vicious creatures of Grimm. Welcome to school, kids!
- 19
To their mutual displeasure, Ruby and Weiss are paired up during the initiation. Meanwhile Pyrhha lends a hand to Jaune, who may be in over his head at Beacon.
- 20
Yang and Blake happily partner up, while tensions rise between Ruby and Weiss.
- 21
Things are going smoothly for Blake and Yang, but everything goes south when the other pairs show up with giant monsters on their tails.
- 22
The teams have been formed and classes at Beacon have begun, but Weiss can't understand why Ruby was put in charge of RWBY instead of her. Does the young prodigy really have what it takes to lead?
- 23
Jaune, the least-capable of the new Hunters, suffers under a bully.
- 24
Pyrrha comes up with a plan to help Jaune, but things get complicated when he reveals how he came to the school.
- 25
Jaune is being blackmailed into one terrible situation after another, but when Pyrrha becomes the target of a mean prank, he stands up to his tormentors.
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