User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 599 - Too Early To Win, Too Late To Know/@comment-24153155-20141002220434/@comment-11051098-20141006142044

You have to consider that Kirinji was unable to even hit Yhwach because he had Nianzol inside his shadow, bending off all of Kirinji's attacks around Yhwach. And Shutara was attacked in some way by 3 elite Sternritters one after the other.