Talk:Battle Pages/Yang vs. Mercury/@comment-86.61.20.138-20151214022948/@comment-190.218.41.34-20151214024104

Which is why I asked if whether everyone else think he was just throwing the match-- He was not even taking Pyrrha on seriously and was able to figure out not only her Fighting Style, but her Semblance as well without even showing a hint of his true power, and it's been stated even by the CRWBY that Pyrrha is the strongest first-year student, even in the show it's stated multiple times.

And if he could toy so easily with Pyrrha like he did, it would make no sense for him to suddenly lose to Yang without even putting up much of a fight after she activated her Semblance, and as observant as Mercury is, he should've known how to counter Yang's rage and take her out with a single kick.

If he lost on purpose to advance the plot, I would understand that and not make a huge fuzz about it, but if he was fighting Yang seriously and lost even though according to Canon it goes Mercury > Pyrrha > Yang, so it would make no sense character-wise for Yang to defeat Mercury just because she had a power boost.