Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-10048743-20160208030347/@comment-66.102.6.198-20160211081159

In all honesty I'm hoping Velvet's semblance is something other than mimic just so that she can get even more awesome later in the series. There's been quite a few times where characters' semblances end up being their trump cards (Yang's against the first Paladin, Nora's against team BRNZ, and Phyra against Penny), so if Velvet's semblance is unrelated to making the weapons and copying fighting styles she still has another "ace in the hole," or another "card up her sleeve."

As for why we saw Velvet use similar moves as the ones in the trailers, it could be because she's talented at viewing, analyzing, breaking down, and imitating the battle styles she sees. Kind of like Taskmaster in Marvel, and said skill is most often not considered to be a super power.

Aside from that, this episode was released very close to the one year anniversary of the unfortunately death of Monty Oum ('sniff' you left us too soon, R.I.P. ). So using similar animation to what Monty produced for his trailer was posibky both easier to develop, and a Tribute to Monty Oum himself. I might just being too sentimental and missing Monty, but I like to think of most of Velvet's fight scene as a touching but subtle Tribute to legendary creator of RWBY.

-Defcon Deceiver