Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-34633327-20180105193053/@comment-34633327-20180109154234

PisceanWaterbender wrote: I think Yang was suspicious once she saw Raven on the surface because she'd just seen her go down in the vault not a minute earlier, and knows about Emerald's Semblance. However, it still makes for a decent distraction which is enough time to get an attack in, and Ruby would also likely know this. Emerald needs to be taken out first so that Merc is easy to gang up on...assuming they don't chicken out on the fight it could be an easy revenge fight for both of them. Even if they could stop Emerald though, Mercury is another matter. Mercury double teamed both Yatsuhashi and Coco, the sisters' seniors, with little effort, and while Ruby has likely improved with using Crescent Rose since their time in Beacon, Yang is worse off. She has only had basic hand to hand combat training with Taiyang, and the only people she's fought during her journey to find Ruby were those shit tier bandits. She's out of practice. Not to mention that unlike at Beacon, Mercury doesn't have to worry about holding back. He need only knock Crescent Rose out of Ruby's hands, and unless she's actually gotten better at CQC, she's defenseless. Even if she did getter better at CQC, Mercury has much more experience in it, and would probably outclass her.