Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20181229081856/@comment-26018514-20190111084840

at that point though, Ironwood already would have won... get Penny to the finals, reveal what she is and that Atlas can manufacture champions capable of beating all but maybe the invincible girl, and what does he then lose if a forfeit is called by disqualification? Pyrrha then couldn't have fatally leveraged the knowledge, which would mean fighting at less than 100%. The point is that magnetic waves are uncommonly used parts of Pyrrha's skillset, that doesn't mean she doesn't use them, only that she uses them when pressed... and Penny was that formidable without the illusions.