Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25396609-20171207232020/@comment-26397825-20180419050249

Semblances that hurt the user for no reason other than to add arbitrary 'balance' to it is a no go. A person who has a semblance that sacrifices speed for strength or the ability to simply shrug off an attack is fine, but a person who has a semblance that makes objects but is 'balanced' by the objects exploding in their hand at the time limit, thereby hurting the user if they don't toss them away, is not.

It's basically a question of 'does this negative make sense given the semblance, or have I just added a way to hurt the user that makes no sense outside of "I wanted it to hurt the user"?'