Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20171107165310/@comment-25936766-20171108143544

SpiritedDreaming wrote:

That doesn't say "base ability" to me. That says "next level", with the plain white "push" glyphs as her base ability and the one she has used everywhere - including in the White Trailer, when she was still technically a noob. Considering Winter refers to the Summoning as the Schnee's Semblance though, the Summoning aspect might indeed be the "base ability" alongside the simple Pushing function and "Time Dilation".

@Mind: The stuff she does with Dust is more using it via her Semblance's basic abilities of Pushing and Time Dilation, and potentially Summons.

She could do almost all of the things she does with Dust without Glyphs if she practiced and learned, but using the Glyphs as the means to the end might just be easier for her.