Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20161030153351/@comment-25266931-20161104000608

The Devil&#039;s Advocate WP wrote: That may very well be the case. During the intro you can see Ruby fighting him in a village that appears to have been burned up.



Unless he is going to show up while they are in the village, the most likely answer is that he is going around burning down villages looking for them and that is when he runs into them. Didn't think of that. That photo half confirms it.

I agree the leads need to be put in check and lose more often to the adults/villains. But let's be real. Blake and Yang lost to Adam. Cinder beat Pyrrha. Neo beat Yang. Weiss lost to the WF Lt. and it took all the had to beat an enhance Paladin in the last 3 episodes of season 3 (when the rabbit girl revealed her Blue Mage powers).

The cast of heroes doesn't seem OP to me anymore. If anything I'm waiting for them to get to Qrow or Adam or Glynda's level. Remember when Merc beat Yatsuhashi and Coco almost alone. A lot of when they lose they lose due to lack of foe knowledge, not because they're weak or dumb. But because they end up facing people who push their bottons. Torchwick could do that but he lacked raw power to back it up. He was just smart. But even he could give most of them a run for their money one on one.

I think now, with the stakes what they are, and the madness in Tyrian's eyes. I think he'll flat out come close to killing at least one of them. Likely Jaune since Ruby has a "hands off" order on her. But he'll try to kill Jaune to make Ruby submit and come with him to Salem.