Just to establish this somewhere, as I haven't yet in game or other OOC posts, Steerpike is absolute crap at fighting. He has no experience in it, and very much prefers to have the upper hand in some other way (ie. hidden weapons, psyching the other person out, sneaking up behind them, surprise attacks, that sort of thing).

The one time he gets anywhere near hand to hand combat in canon, he, er, dies shortly thereafter. So, yeah. He sucks at fighting.