Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25266931-20161228230634/@comment-26397825-20161229024658

He has his own way to fight though - his fighting style, for all that it uses a sword and shield, is nothing like Pyrrha's. All he got was an armour upgrade - bonus defense, but he's not using her shield or her fighting style.

She was his teacher, but a student will always be a litle different to their teacher when it comes to sword fighting. What works for one person won't always work for another and must be adapted and modified for their own use. In this way, he is making his own fighting style. He takes the teachings Pyrrha gave him and makes them his own.

Pyrrha also struggled to lift and control all those heavy gears at the top of the tower. She wasn't really as strong as everyone made her out to be - instead she was clever with her semblance and how she used it, building up an untouchable image for herself by manipulating the very material pretty much every weapon in Remnant is made of to make it miss her slightly. I'm not saying she wasn't skilled, because she was, but a lot of her supposed 'strength' does come from the view everyone had of her. That she was the Invincible Girl.

She had a lot of growing to do. If she'd lived to reach Qrow's age, she probably could have tanked a Goliath by herself.