Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-25253032-20140912013821/@comment-25417499-20140918132321

Though Semblances can be looked at as support in the fact that every character who's Semblance has been definitively shown to be a certain thing uses it tied into their fighting style. Ruby, Weiss, and Blake often use their Semblance while attacking or evading for extra agility, Yang uses her Semblance to power up her strikes, Pyrhha uses hers to retrieve her weapons and to aim her spear-throws, and Sun uses those energy-burst-thingies for radial attacks. The only two times a Semblance was used solely on it's own that I can think of is when Pyrhha pulled a Magneto in the food-fight on S2 E1, and when Sun made those light clones in the fight with Torchwick driving the Paladin. And even so, as I just said, Pyrhha and Sun still more often than not use their Semblances in conjunction with their fighting style.