Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20140725003808/@comment-24994749-20140726035118

I'm not concerned about Ruby's semblance becoming over power in comparison to the others because Pyrrha just basically showed she is freaking Magneto and if anyone has seen the X-Men movies you understand what I mean.

Yang is like a more versatile version of Pyro, since she can create her own fire and, so far, it seems she has quite a lot of stamina.

The thing Glynda did with the tables. I know she used her weapon but that didn't look like dust manipulation, neither like aura. So, I would guess it's a manifestation of her semblance (similar to how Weiss uses her weapon to point to where she wants her Glyphs to appear). So, following the X-men comparisons, Glynda pulled a Jean Grey, who is well over the level of Magneto.

We don't know what are Ren's, Nora's or Jaune's semblances.

I agree that Blake would have faired a lot better if she had had something that actually resembled her weapon since I think the whole point of Gambol Shroud is that it allows her to constantly switch between fighting styles quickly, that, plus the clones semblance allows her to create openings in the enemies defence.

About Ren, he just got against the wrong enemy. Yang is basically a boxer, Ren reminds me of the Hyuga in Naruto. Imagine Neji against Rock Lee but Neji can't use his byakugan. That's basically what happened to Ren. What little we saw of his fighting style in Volume 1 is that he seems to have a small reservoir of aura, but he knows how to use it really well. So, he first tries to finish off the enemy with a ranged attack, and, if that doesn't work, he goes with the aura-kung-fu focusing in only making finishing off hits. Besides, those leaks don't really resemble his weapon at all.

If I had to say, I would think the one who did best was Nora, followed by Yang and Pyrrha. Ruby didn't do much outside of that finishing move. Mind you, she might have came up with the strategy of having the others buy time so she could prepare the necessary amount of aura to charge with her semblance all out.