Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-10380701-20141011082048/@comment-27963514-20160414162833

67.78.184.210 wrote: Personally, I think people overexaggerate Yang's Semblance.

For one thing, Yang tanking the Paladin's punch is just the Worf Effect. They just needed to show it to end the fight sooner. I like to think that she was barely holding on after tanking that hit. After all, if the Paladins can easily be defeated by Huntresses in training, what good would they be against the Grimm?

Not really the Worf Effect. Worf was said in-universe to be a badass, then he'd get stomped to show how much tougher the bad guys were. I think the only times in TNG that he was shown to have any actual skill was against training holograms that Riker was also able to beat, and that time he won a trophy at a Bat'leth competition. Yang is said in-universe to be a badass, then she survives getting punched through a concrete pillar just to turn around and punch the arm off of a thirty-foot tall mech. Badassery confirmed.

Also, the Paladins aren't for hunters and huntresses. Presumably, most of the population has their auras locked. The Paladin is so that common mooks can stand a chance against the Grimm... for comparision, look at how useless the Knights are compared to the teams of first-year students... but they're still stronger than average people.

Finally, it was said later that that was a prototype of the Paladin, and the final models are stronger. And even with the final versions, a single second-year student was able to fight off three or four of them at once, destroying two of them.