Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-10380701-20141011082048/@comment-4010415-20141012083910

Maki Kuronami wrote: She doesn't though.

Even without getting hit, she generates energy by attacking, for usage to buff herself up to deal even more damage.

Getting hit just allows her to gather up secondary energy to buff herself even further.

Her semblance is pretty much a one-trick pony in how it operates. I'm not sure she generates energy by attacking, to be honest.

The main reason I'm so certain that she really does store the energy she has gained somewhere is because of her fight with the Ursae in the Emerald Forest. Neither of them hit her, and she didn't hit them. She simply dodged them and was laughing it off until she realized one of them cut a strand of her hair. Suddenly, boom, semblance.