Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27082610-20170729051211/@comment-25936766-20171125031825

Ngraceland wrote: Phantomlink959 wrote: Why in the world does Dust make it WORSE?! If there is light, e.g. fire, shadows disappear. Besides, in a brightly lit room, what use is being complete darkness? "The greater the light, the darker the shadow it casts". Just like Ghost said.

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That aisde, there's the fact that making Dust make the Semblance worse outright, defies Canon.

See, Dust does not make Semblances downright weaker, we've never seen that happen, ever, at all, in the slightest.

What Dust does to a Semblance is modify it, maybe improve it.

>Blake's Clones changed from shadow clones that vanish on hit, to explosive Fire clones, a Stone clone, a Gravity clone that makes a small explosive push, an Ice clone, and so on.

>Weiss's Glyphs in No Brakes, instead of simply Pushing or Pulling, when combined with Lightning Dust downright put Blake under a small "Haste spell".

Based on what's been seen, Dust cannot make a Semblance weaker in such an outright and straight manner.

So in this case, Fire Dust would modify the effect, but not nerf it at all. At worst, change the effect to something that would have a different kind of utility than the original.