Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25396609-20160923220030/@comment-25936766-20161117024732

SpiritedDreaming wrote: Otherwise it becomes potentially overpowered, as pretty much every element creates energy (wind and water literally make energy that we can use for electricity, for example). Or, he could reduce it from "absorb elemental energy" to "absorb elemental energy that damaged him". While it makes it even more like Yang's Semblance, it does make it less potentially OP.

(In fact, I pretty much thought it was like that, though granted, the wording implies it's just absorbing energy).