Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27404492-20171011224301/@comment-2A02:1810:9509:B00:31B6:615E:D50:C288-20171015160146

ChishioKunrin wrote:

When I say that she activates it, I mean that she starts using the energy that she has stored to strengthen her hits. That's when her eyes turn red, her hair starts glowing, and she usually also either has fire on her hair or creates a burst of fire around her. That part of her Semblance is not automatically triggered just because she took a hit. She chooses when to start using that energy she built up.

However, when she gets too angry, she accidentally starts tapping into that energy and strengthening her attacks with it.

And Yang used her Semblance without getting hit during the initiation, when an Ursa cut a bit of her hair off. She had dodged their attacks, then that happened, her eyes turned red, there was a burst of fire, and she suddenly attacked with an incredible amount of strength that sent an Ursa crashing through several trees.

It's strange that Weiss' angry and emotional outburst at the charity ball would cause her to summon her Boarbatusk completely by accident, but it happened. I get that it doesn't automatically activate but how could she use it witout getting hit first? Sure, getting hit would't immediately activate it but it's still a prerequisite.

She uses the energy from her opponent's attacks to make herself stronger. If she's not getting attacked, where is she getting the extra energy from? Maybe it could 'activate' without getting hit, but it sure as hell shouldn't have any effect beyond just changing her eyes in that case.