Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20140921022402/@comment-73.42.187.52-20141214032116

^here is what I was saying, Pyrrha is skilled... this true, however she wields her semblance as a crutch she only bothers using it once the opponent has traded blows with her before hand, and this is fine against opponents like CDRL who are all her walking tin can puppets at the point they get serious, but against cinders glass weapons she would have to be serious at the outset of combat and when she realized(I might be outmatched... time to manipulate her weapon) she would fail and probably lose right there(note how mercury was about to land a potential killstrike when she moved his foot with her semblance) and if that were not enough she could always burn Pyrrha with her dust infused firepower.

my point with Jaune is that his Semblance could then be as perfect a counter to Cinders(or whoever beats Pyrrha) as Cinders fighting style/semblance is to Pyrrha's.

As far as Skill, I think Cinder would heavily underestimate him(as would any fan of the show at this point). I think he is already a lot better in normal combat skills than he was(with those combat trainings on the rooftop I would expect him to be at least as skilled as most of crdl(possibly skilled enough to fight Cardin or 2 of the others at once), but yes, dumb luck would be necessary, yet his character seems the type