Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-67.70.92.41-20151228204640/@comment-190.141.31.150-20160218032451

Let's not forget the fact that literally throughout the entire fight Yang is entirely on the defensive, and the only time she got into the offensive she landed two punches and a kinetic round from Ember Celica on Mercury. Then he proceeded to take the match more seriously (though I doubted he was giving it his all, probably about his 50%) and from that point on she never once was able to even come close to landing a hit on him since all of her punches were constantly misdirected or evaded while Mercury continued his barrage of kicks. Let's not forget he managed to double-kick RWBY out of her Speed Semblance, and we've seen that not even Nora and Pyrrha, unarguably the two strongest combatants from JNPR fail to stop Ruby from her Speed Semblance while he seems to have done it without even breaking a sweat and with a smile on his face. Most, if not all of the evidence, although some contextual, leads to the fact that Mercury, alongside Emerald and the rest of the antagonists are simply at a much higher level of skill than the protagonists at this current moment.