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Crackpot theory: He might be able to do that because there was more sunlight to work with. This might sound stupid, but I feel like he has to put more focus and aura into his clones the less sun there is, hence why they seemed useless on the highway and why they seemed great in Volume 5.

It is more likely that his semblance has evolved but we have to be careful. We have no idea on how hard it is to "evolve" a semblance, with Weiss and Ruby pulling something out of their sleeves every other volume while Yang and Blake have shown no improvement in their semblances.