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Nitpick for today! I know I skipped yesterday, but I'm pretending I didn't.
Anyway, so the nitpick I have is that Pyrrha is meant to be the single best fighter in her year, so super special, totally better than the rest, etcetera etcetera. In the first few seasons they did a very good job with making it clear how much better Pyrrha was than Jaune and we can even be like "yeah she's clearly the best on her team," (Nora is a freaking powerhouse but not as quick or as technically proficient as her other teammates imo and Ren is good but subdued and seems less physically strong than Pyrrha.) But the problem for me is that when you stack Pyrrha against Team RWBY... She doesn't seem all that different in skill level. This is probably just because Team RWBY is the title team and in the first three seasons there was a lot of work done on their fighting styles specifically, whereas Pyrrha was generally treated as existing for Jaune for the majority of her existence so even though some thought definitely went into her fighting style, it would make sense that the main girls would be better.
But like
I'm not saying they could definitively beat Pyrrha, but the fight would be great because... There's no reason for me to believe that Pyrrha could just beat them point blank without the use of her semblance. Hypothetically somebody could say "well Pyrrha would beat them if she was going all out because she can just control their weapons," but that doesn't matter because nobody but possibly Oz and the rest of the inner circle know about that anyway. Pyrrha keeps her semblance a secret, so why would people act like she's point blank period the best fighter when she isn't actually animated to fight better than lots of other people?
Like I said, it makes sense through a Doylist perspective why the main girls (and Sun tbh) are animated to fight so well that it looks that at the very least they're on the same level as Pyrrha (with specifically Weiss and Ruby potentially outstripping her.) But Watsonian, it kind of feels like people got so fixated on Pyrrha's status of being the best from her old combat school that they kind of just... pretended she still was? Again, I know Pyrrha's semblance is like this OP trump card for people, but nobody knows about it. It's actually really funny to imagine Pyrrha being the person who doesn't overhype herself. Like, Weiss is talking to Pyrrha and calls her the best combatant in their school and Pyrrha is like "I don't know about that, Weiss, I think you might be better at fighting than I am," and she's like "...Pyrrha, you're so humble." XD
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