Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-14610890-20131218030737/@comment-15145664-20131218043030

XDex wrote: I'll get to Blake vs. Weiss later, that one is very close, and I want to be thorough enough to be impartial.

Pyrrha vs. Yang is another tough one. I think Yang can't use her ranged attacks on Pyrrha because of the shield. They might flinch her back a few inches, but not enough to be effective. Pyrrha honestly doesn't have much useful range against Yang either. So the fight will be settled at close quarters.

Here, I think Yang actually has an advantage. Pyrrha's close attacks probably aren't going to be fast nor effective enough to do much against Yang, and Yang's shown that she can take many direct hits and keep going anyway. Yang, having a clear weight and power advantage would have to press that advantage.

I actually  don't think she needs to land any direct hits to get an advantage. I believe that her best strategy would be to go straight at Pyrrha, and just hit whatever she can, as hard as she can. Even if she hits Pyrrha's shield, that still is the full force of her attacks that Pyrrha has to take. Yang's fighting style isn't based around acute attacks. It is about hitting so hard that knocks the opponent off their feet. A shield and armor does nothing to help against that, and probably only gives a bigger target to hit.

Pyrrha's semblance just doesn't offer enough help in this case. So what if she messes with Yang's accuracy slightly? I'm of the opinion that Yang could still power through and get solid hits in on Pyrrha, and after the initial hits I'm not sure there's much that could be done to recover. Yes, but Pyrrha doesn't just take direct hits with her shield. She directs the attacks off of her shield, even when using other people. (Jaune)