Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20190119003858/@comment-4141313-20190122161709

People urging for Yang to beat Mercury seem to forget that not only is he a trained assassin, he's never lost to Yang, and the only legitimate loss he had was off-screen. And even then that was a result of numbers once Hazel powered down, since by then it was 3 vs. 8.

Seriously, he's trounced Yatsuhashi, threw his matches with Pyrrha and Yang, was only toying with Ruby, put up a good showing against Amber compared to Emerald, killed his professional assassin of a father, was only toying with Yang in Volume 5, and did all this without a semblance and only basic capoeira as a fighting style, and while his boot greaves have amunition, he mainly uses it to just reinforce his kicks, and occassionally uses them for those Dust Twisters.

Only guy you can reasonably say he's lost to was Tyrian, and even then not only was that barely a fight, but he was clouded with rage from Tyrian's comments. Plus, Tyrian is someone even Qrow has a hard time fighting.

It astounds me how people think Yang can beat him as they are right now.