Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27082610-20170624011641/@comment-27447621-20170720142643

I think I have what may be a decent idea for a Semblance for a lancer character. Granted, It's probably a pretty bad idea, but it's something that I think could work.

 A few minutes of googling various iterations of the phrase "Polearm techniques", and I came across this interesting technique that an article's author called "High Road, Low Road". Basically, it's a tag-team attack style for a pair of polearms, attacks coordinated so that one of the wielders hits a high target like the arms or head and another hits a low target, such as the legs. These attacks happen at the same time, meaning your opponent has to either jump out of range, somehow block both attacks or choose which one to block.

I translated this into an illusion-style Semblance. The user creates one or more Illusory copy of themselves that appear exactly where the user is standing, have no presence and affect the sight of everyone in the vicinity (a bit of a combination of Neo's and Emerald's Semblances, but restricted to copies of the User). These copies would performs different actions dictated by the user's thoughts.

The way I'm envisioning it working, any opponent won't be able to tell the difference between what's the illusion and what's the real person, meaning that with every strike they have to make a guess as to which attacker is physical, and which attack to block.

Like I said, not great, but...