Talk:Vytal Festival/@comment-26160399-20170921021026/@comment-4010415-20170923024405

We know that there are some video game influences in RWBY thanks to Monty, so maybe one of the things about Yang unleashing her stored energy in an attack is that she deals more damage as she goes through a combo attack. Or maybe she can actually control how much of that energy she is putting into an attack and she tries not to waste it, but when she got to the hit that broke his Aura, she decided to use the rest of her stored energy.

If the Aura break shimmer isn't actually visible in-universe, then it's kind of understandable that Yang didn't get a penalty for punching Merc in the face after she broke his Aura, since the buzzer didn't go off until after that and, thus, she wouldn't have had any way of knowing.