Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20160214165601/@comment-27265101-20160217021156

71.86.29.122 wrote: I want to add that rooster teeth is following Monty's script and he has stated that none fo the main eight Team RWBY and Team JNPR die until volume 8

He lied I'm guessing considering Phyrra's voice actor, Miles and Kerry all said that they knew her fate from the beginning so regardless she would have died just much later in the story.