User blog comment:Maki Kuronami/Lesson 27: Screw everything, have a Samurai!/@comment-9090085-20141024205138

''Roman gets extra rekt. Remember when he was an unstoppable pimp slappin' badass? ''

No.

To this day, I'm still baffled as to why people keep saying that. Yes, he beat Blake; yes, he easily held his own against Sun; but when both of them attacked, he got hit. Roman is better then any one of our heroes, but worse then two or more of them.

Crazily enough, I really liked that they showed he had limits in Black and White. That's probably why I can buy him losing to Blake here: he's better, but his limits are still close to hers.

Speaking of Blake's win, this fight really showed why Cinder needed to steal all that Dust: They provide a big boost to a hunter's fighting capability. Sure, some of it was used to augment the bombs in this episode, but most was stolen just to keep it away from Vale's defenders.