Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-67.70.92.41-20151228204640/@comment-26397825-20160108051609

Ohhh. Okay, the phrasing was what had me cunfused.

Mkay, I can see it. It was sort of a 'This is how low you can go before you are disqualified' and also made a big deal out of Weiss losing all her aura, so when we saw Yang get down to 16% and Mercury lost all his aura, we had a reference to level it against. It was how we knew why Yang was still in the game at such a low level and how close she was to being knocked out, and why Mercury losing all his aura before Yang attacked him was a big deal.

I still believe Mercury threw the fight. He probably didn't use his full strength and was sort of gauging her aura levels by both the board (which he could have kept an eye on out the corner of his eye when he had a small break from Yang) and by how much damage his strikes did to his aura (so if one punch at half strength did 2% damage to her, he would have known to count his strikes and make sure he didn't do more than42 half strength punches. He's a trained assassin, I'm sure he knows how to do that).