Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20190119003858/@comment-25936766-20190126133847

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).

BlizzardDragon wrote: 1) His off-screen loss too was a result of numbers more than strength, as by then Hazel ran out of juice and it Mercury, Emerald, and a Weakened Hazel against six students, Qrow, and Ozcar.

2) It helps upon seeing Qrow and Winter fighting, he instantly bolted thinking Qrow could have recognized him, demonstrating his lack of confidence in facing him. 1) Actually, Nora outright said that no matter how much they beat up Hazel, his Aura just recovered so fast it made the damage null. So Hazel had the opposite of running out of "juice". Meanwhile, JNR looks more fatigued.

Though the whole thing is written too horrendously. We see RWB charging at MEH, then we go back and MEH lost...except, none of them looks hurt or even slightly tired. They look more like they lost a game of Rock Paper Scissors instead of a fight.

2) To be fair, if Qrow recognized either him or Emerald, he could easily tell Ozpin, and then Cinder's plan goes down the drain. And I doubt he would like messing with Cinder that way.

I do agree Emerald's on a similar-to-weaker level than the heroes though, but then again, she was just a thief. And not even a criminal mastermind like Roman.