Talk:Pyrrha Nikos/@comment-159.118.38.253-20170706202123/@comment-4010415-20170717023435

It was more of a pyrrhic victory for the good guys than the bad guys. The bad guys got a pretty grand victory where they achieved almost everything they wanted, and all that's left for their plans for Vale is to find Beacon's Relic.

Meanwhile, the victory that Ruby achieved was defeating the enemy and stopping things from getting worse.


 * If she hadn't petrified the Grimm wyvern, it would have continued destroying Beacon and Vale. It's massive and most likely ancient and has immense physical strength. Ruby nullified that threat by turning it into a statue.


 * If she hadn't injured Cinder to the point of retreat, then Cinder would have searched Beacon for the Relic and probably would have had better results than the Grimm that are searching Beacon.

However, the good guys suffered huge costs:


 * Beacon is overrun by Grimm


 * The CCT network is down, and Atlas is having trouble figuring out how to repair the CCT tower with all those Grimm around it and the Grimm wyvern glued to it.


 * Perosnal losses: RWBY and JNR lost their friend Pyrrha, Ruby lost her friend Penny, Ozpin died and had to transfer to a kid for a new vessel, Yang lost her arm and got PTSD, and Team RWBY split up.

Ruby prevented Vale from being plagued by the wyvern and possibly annihilated, and she may have delayed or even prevented the bad guys from getting Beacon's Relic. That's a victory. But the cost was so great, it might as well also be a defeat.