Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20140725003808/@comment-11188061-20140726012444

Pyrrha is the Ace of Team JNPR, and she is the consecutive champion of the whatever tournament. Of course Blake lost to her. If you think using your Semblance automatically wins or 'I can at least get a hit in' then you're dead wrong; Roman proved that already.

At the way she is she can never win a fair one-on-one - she cannot beat Yang in close quarter melee, she cannot beat Nora in terms of pure strength, she cannot beat Weiss in terms of long ranged bombardments, she cannot even beat Jaune in terms of defense, which I assume is the case when his Semblance fully forms.

Pyrrha is extremely good and well rounded with her melee skills, and she is accustomed to using her spear as a versatile sword as well. In terms of swordsmanship, of course Pyrrha outclasses Blake. Also those who think that 'two swords > 1 sword' should try it out for themselves. There's a reason why there are so little Twin Sword Style in the world, and this isn't Sword Art Online.

What Blake does have is the ability to overwhelm her opponent with extreme versatility and improvisation. Gambol Shroud functions as a gun, a whip, and a twin sword. If she was to fight it out with any one of those functions only, then she is going to lose like hell no matter what. However, when combined, she'll be able to come up with extremely tricky moves and nasty surprises.

Moreover, her Semblance is basically a get-out get-in ticket where she can overwhelm her enemy while still able to retreat, as long as she doesn't run out or get interrupted in the process.

During that food fight, she's basically fighting with just the cleaver and the katana, and without the gun or the whip to back up her offense. Sure, Pyrrha is also missing her shield, but the latter's base skill in swordfighting is much higher than Blake's. Not to mention that Blake only used her Semblance once to dodge out of the way.