Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27404492-20170511131216/@comment-25936766-20170617211253

Sentry 616 wrote: Then they become very ineffective. Part of the point of summons is to have a "meat" shield to take the hits for you. If that damage is transfered over to you, suddenly a major factor in their appeal is gone. Actually, they remain very effective even if the damage is transferred. Because it's one thing that the damage is passed on to you, it's another thing how high is the damage received by the summon.

Now, I don't think damage is transferred, for the reasons Spirit said, but let's assume it is for the purposes of this comment: The Knight and Pumba both still would tank hits far better than Weiss would.

In RPG terms, let's say we have a mage and a warrior, and whatever damage one receives, the other does as well. If you punch the Mage, it would deal, say, 40 damage, to both of them. But using the same punch on the Warrior would make it, and thus both of them, receive only 10 damage due to the Warrior's much higher defense.

So, the Knight and Pumba both remain effective because they are tough. While not better than if there was no damage transfer at all, it's still good because the damage passed from Summon to Weiss would be much lower.

Summons already (appear) have two limitations when it comes to Weiss. They appear have a high Aura cost, and they have been pretty difficult for Weiss. I have seen neither of those things.

They seem to take a while to Summon, at least for Weiss, especially for the Knight (though to be fair, we've only seen Weiss summon it for the 1st time). But Summon Time =/= Summon Cost.

At the same time, "they have been pretty difficult for Weiss". If you mean the act of Summoning, and not the Summons themselves, then there's the fact that that is solved by practice, and she's been practicing.

Even then, in V4 it didn't seem that the Summons were difficult per se. She summonned Pumba without even trying (though by accident), and the Knight at most seemed to just require concentration.

There's also the facts that things are escalating, and other characters have been shown as having grown stronger.

Weiss included. In fact, compared to Emerald, she has become stronger while Emerald has gotten weaker.

And by "weaker", I mean that her Semblance went from making Hallucinations to making "Holograms updated in Real-Time".