Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27265101-20170131070502/@comment-24534644-20170209125047

Well that's kinda my point. Pyrrhic Victory means you win, but... then what? You're either dead, or you're about to. Win the battle, lose the war, all that fun stuff.

Not to say that our illustrious protags are going to lose against Salem (though that'd be one Hell of a plot twist). But they DID technically win the battle at Beacon. It just came at the cost of Beacon itself, likely many innocent lives, Ruby's innocence, Yang's arm, Blake's comfort zone, Weiss' free will, and, of course, Pyrrha's life.