User blog comment:ChishioKunrin/RWBY 3 Livestream points/@comment-25555436-20160213000325/@comment-4010415-20160213000747

I got the impression that they wanted Adam's Semblance to be kind of a mystery until a later occasion or something.

Kind of like how we weren't meant to be 100% certain whether fake Yatsuhashi was Emerald or Neo's doing and weren't supposed to be 100% sure what happened with the "Yang 'breaking' Mercury's leg" thing until after the flashback episode.