Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20190119003858/@comment-17344148-20190127062824

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote: Erwin10nino wrote: I mean, we've seen them fight, and we know Mercury can handle Coco and Yatsuhashi alone... but that's because they're still students compared to him, a trained assassin... Actually, CY being students and Merc being an assassin doesn't mean much in this case. See, the reason they lost was mainly because CFVY had the brilliant idea of going with the most retarded choice of fighters they could've gone with.

Coco is slow and lacks mobility, especially with the minigun out. Yatsu is even slower. Sure, he's strong and big, but he's slow. Emerald and Merc, meanwhile, are fast and agile. Yatsu is a wall but these two can simply jump over or around that wall, making him more useless at protecting Coco.

Coco and Yatsu together are more similar to a turret, which doesn't work well when the enemy can just dance around you. If they had fought Ruby, Blake or Weiss instead of Merc and Em, the result would've been the same (well, they might've taken out Weiss, but still).

It actually mean much, because if you look at another perspective, Yatsu and Coco are students that still needs to learn the tricks and tips in being a Huntsman/Huntress.

Merc, on the other hand, was a personally trained by his father, which even caught the attention of Cinder. And Merc had killed his own father without Semblance as well.

Think about this in this way: Yatsu and Coco hadn't trained as much as Mercury, who, on the other hand, said that he trained so hard to appease his alcoholic father as well as to get his Semblance back.