Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20140815002519/@comment-5046408-20140815023549

So as to not be redundant with what other people have said/will said, I'll just give two cents:

-Neptune is a Dragoon. I don't care what anyone says, by definition anyone who wields a spear and jumps into the air to lunge at their enemies is a Dragoon, which makes him automatically one of the most awesome characters in my very biased book.

-Yang's Semblance: a lot of people are going to initially see this as OP. The thing is, Monty likes to think of the characters and their powers in almost RPG terms. He's said in some video (I forget which) that he thought through the Teams' power set by thinking along the lines of "What would be good classes to put together for an ideal RPG team?", or something to that effect. Weiss is a Black Mage/Support type, Blake is a Ninja, Ruby is a fast attacker, etc (this points back to the ever-so-evident fact that Neptune is a Dragoon).

With RPG terms in mind, think of Yang as a sort of Monk, and her Semblance being a sort of Limit Break (More like the FF6 or 8 system). With every point of damage taken her attacks become stronger, however she's still been beaten the crap out of to get to the point that the buff does anything significant. Heal her and you essentially undo the stat increase, but leave her alive and she's particularly vulnerable if she takes a pretty nasty strike in her beefed-up mode.

If the RPG terms flew over your head higher than a rocket from the Earth's Core, just know that Yang is by no means invincible just because she gets stronger when she's beaten up. It's not like if she, say, got hit by a nuke she'd turn into "She-sus", she just gets physically stronger the lower her health goes. If faced against a particularly elusive opponent (I'd be willing to automatically place bets on Neo/Neyo for what I assume is an arsenal of illusion powers) they could dodge her stronger attacks and land the killing blow to the "Glass Canon".