Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20140829002738/@comment-4830106-20140829020642

Tl;dr, as usual.

Once again: Jaune, take the goddamn hint; Blake, stop being a bitch, yadda yadda yadda. Nothing new here.

Hovewer, Cinder's ominous shot with the needle gave me an interesting idea. She referenced taking away power, instead of just overcoming it. Since i've seen both Legend of Korra, and more than my fair share of Chinese Martial Arts movies, it's not entirely unlikely that Cinder could be referring to something like chi-blocking. In other words, acupuncture as a combat style. Though unlikely, it's not impossible. Assuming Semblance works that way, a puncture at just the right point could completely neutralize it.

If Pyrrha uses her semblance as much as Mercury seems to think she does, then she'd be at a severe disadvantage without it. Not crippled, but still relatively powerless.