Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-10380701-20141011082048

So recently, there's the idea that Yang's semblance makes her borderline invincible because she blocked the Paladin's punch and shredded its hand with a single punch.

Yes, she can do that. But if this tweet from Monty is to be believed, it has a reasonable cap.

https://twitter.com/montyoum/status/501607600321212417

Another thing to note is that everyone considers her semblance to only get better if she gets hit. It does, but remember when Lindsay and Kara said Yang's power comes from her hair.

That would be the super meter in the tweet that Monty posted. Meanwhile, her power gets stronger when she gets hit is the ultra meter.

So what does this all mean?

Yang's semblance likely caps when she's at her lowest health, and highest super meter, which is accumulated the longer she fights.

Those explosions she emits when she's pissed are the result of her using up the energy she's gathered to deliver a Falcon Punch to end all Falcon Punches.

The main misconception is that everyone thinks that Yang keeps her meter when she does that.

Nope. Once she uses up meter, her strength is gonna drop down to more reasonable levels. Because she needs to build them up again.

To break it down to video game terms, this is how Yang's semblance operates.


 * During the fight with Junior, she was at 50% health, 80-100% super meter has been built up, and her ultra meter is at 60% (SFIV's ultra meter generally maxes out before you get KO'd) Junior pulls out her hair, she gets pissed and uses up both super and ultra meter at once to buff herself up AND deliver the megaton punch she does.


 * During the fight with the Ursas (Ursae, whatevs.) She likely had 0% ultra meter and only used up her super meter to give that Ursa a beatdown. Potentially, this may be the reason she didn't get serious during the Nevermore fight; She had no meter, and she's never been hit at all during that time.


 * During the infamous Paladin battle, Yang hadn't exactly built up super meter. But Roman punching her through the pillars put her up to at least 50%-80% ultra. Likely, she burned up her meter to block, then destroy the paladin's arm. The Bumblebee combo that she does with Blake probably wasn't also meant to build momentum, but to generate super meter as well, as she begins to ignite the longer she spun around.

This is my reasoning why Yang's semblance has a limitation.

What do you think, everyone? 