Talk:Mercury Black/@comment-28171999-20170912203119/@comment-37604663-20190220013823

Yep, both were. Pyrrha due to it being only a practice match & mercury due to his intention being finding out pyrrhas semblance.

However now that we know mercury lost his semblance. With those prosthetics, he wouldve been defeated almost as fast as penny had it been a serious match.

Because, in volume 5 mercury & yang faught for quite a while. In that fight he had no reason to hold back either. This was a yang who only had enough time to adapt with her new arm & only changed her fighting style. We know pyrrha was never a hot head to begin with. Yang also didnt use her semblance against mercury. So, pyrrha would be able to hold her own against mercury for quite a while even without her semblance. While her semblance is a nuisance to hunters. It would be overkill.