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KNN005 wrote: And I keep saying how did Qrow not fair well against Tyrian (who had been fighting before Qrow even arrived) when they're both adults, seasoned, and yet Qrow's aura dropped at the same time as Tyrian.

Because Qrow was having to babysit a bunch of teenagers along with fighting off a highly skilled and unpredictable lunatic. And Tyrian's fight  with RNJR is pretty much irrelevant due to the fact that they didn't even make him break a sweat.