Talk:Semblance/@comment-28307002-20170323012239/@comment-25936766-20170323013020

.....Yeah, no. It doesn't necesarily "deal double damage". When she gets hit, the damage is basically "absorbed" as energy. At any moment, she can use said energy to increase the power behind her attacks.

Hence why she can use her Semblance to boost her punches even if she hasn't even been touched. The energy is already stored, so she (generally) always has at least some energy to boost her attacks with. All being damaged does for Yang, is give her more energy.

So in other words, being hit 2 times, does not mean that her next punch would be 4 times stronger necesarily. It CAN, but "can" does not equal "will".

By the way, the idea of an attack whose damage is "proportional to damage taken beforehand" is way older than Pokemon's Bide move.