Talk:Pyrrha Nikos/@comment-29684190-20191002180014/@comment-2A00:23C5:F41F:7400:1485:1699:2680:4FD8-20191109220932

It could probably be a reference to both sides. Salem's faction succeeded in taking Beacon and destroying the CCT Tower, but Cinder was heavily wounded and the Grimm Wyvern was petrified.

Alternatively, it could be that Ruby succeeded in wounding Cinder, and managed to stop the Wyvern, partially in turn protecting The Relic of Choice and Vale, but at the cost of Pyrrha, Penny, any number of other students and Huntsman, and the CCTS.

Considering a Pyrrhic Victory is meant to be one in which a tactical victory appears like a defeat for one reason or another, I'd say it's in reference to the second one.