Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-108.214.113.232-20151015061142/@comment-4010415-20151118221138

Think about it this way.

In Painting the Town, when Yang fought the Paladin, she was well-rested and had not been fighting anything else that entire day.

In No Brakes, what was Yang's condition?


 * Fought Grimm for a day while Oobleck searched Mountain Glenn for signs of the White Fang.


 * Stayed up late with Weiss and Blake when they were supposed to be sleeping. Instead, they just laid there and talked about why they decided to become Huntresses.


 * After that, took a nap, then got up to be the watchout.


 * When they noticed Ruby was gone, Yang was saying it was Weiss' turn. It was time for Yang to take another nap while Weiss took her turn, then probably Blake and Ruby.


 * Fought White Fang members on the train.


 * When she fought Neo, her Aura was low, and she hadn't had enough rest to replenish much of it. Miles has actually outright said that Aura is FUEL for Semblance! So, not only did Yang need to take hits to power up her Semblance and try to get into a situation where she could actually land a hit on Neo, she also needed to use some Aura to use her Semblance!


 * When the train crashed, it was sunrise.

Of course Yang lost against Neo. She was worn out. Same with Weiss losing against the White Fang Lieutenant.

Meanwhile, Blake had a new trick up her sleeve to use against Roman in a small confined space (which she has actually fought in before! The Black Trailer shows us that she has fought inside of a train before!). Plus, like JayHart said, Roman intended to get caught. Emerald and Mercury were the ones who handed him over to Ironwood's robots, and Cinder claimed the plan was a "success." Obviously, Roman getting captured was part of the plan.