Episode 16

"In Their Own Quirky Ways"  is the sixteenth episode of the My Hero Academia anime and the third episode of Season 2.

Summary
Izuku dodges a robot's attack, then picks up a piece of metal and waits for the robot to approach him. As the robot gets momentum, Izuku slices it's head off with the metal, not wanting to use his Quirk so early in the first phase. Izuku decides to keep the metal as a shield and runs ahead as the students (many from Class 1-A) start going past the Villain Robots onto the next obstacle. The Obstacle Race enters its second stage; The Fall, a canyon that must be trekked by walking on ropes. Meanwhile, Shoto who is in the lead has already finished trekking across The Fall and goes to the final obstacle: The Land Mine Field.

The lead Shouto has starts diminishing due to him having to carefully cross the Land Mine Field. Katsuki, because he is unaffected by explosions, blasts himself towards Shoto, thus gaining the lead. Shouto and Katsuki start having a brief scuffle for the lead.

The Obstacle Race has entered its final stage with Izuku having reached the final stage. Realizing that the leaders in the race are too far away to catch up on foot, Izuku hatches an idea; he places himself onto the metal shield and detonates a land mine, causing him to blast himself into the lead.