User blog comment:ChishioKunrin/RWBY 3 Livestream points/@comment-14539881-20160213082352/@comment-4010415-20160213092810

I think the problem with Yang relying on her Semblance isn't the simple fact that she relies on it, but that she sometimes doesn't really strategically use it. Instead, she just uses it as a trump card to throw at her opponent until it works. Not all fights can be won with "Throw this thing at them until I win."

Even Emerald got beaten while using her Semblance. Amber threw a fireball at a fake Emerald, which revealed the real Emerald, who got hit by another fireball because she was distracted.

Weiss uses her Semblance a lot, but she uses hers strategically. For example, she formed a ring of glyphs around Flynt and then hopped from glyph to glyph, leaving behind ice Dust at each glyph she visited, and each of those glyphs made an icicle and shot it at Flynt. This way, she continually dodged any attacks he might have tried to send her way, while simultaneously barraging him with attacks from all directions in quick succession. Sure, Flynt figured out a way to get her to stop, but still, she used strategy.

Yang, meanwhile, goes "I'm tired of this fight (or "I'M PISSED NOW!!!!"). RAHHHHH *FIRE! Keeps punching and shooting at things until something good happens!*" Now that I think of it, her fighting style itself tends to switch between just shooting at things, the equivalent of button mashing, and actual strategic hand-to-hand combat. Off the top of my head, I remember her using strategic hand-to-hand against Mercury and the Malachite twins. But a lot of other times, she's just "THROW MYSELF AT THEM UNTIL THEY DIIIIIIIE"

So, basically, the problem is not that she's relying too much on her Semblance. It's that she just throws it at everything instead of thinking of a way to use it more strategically, and "throw it at the thing until it works" will not always solve the problem. Hell, the only reason solved the problem against Flynt and Neon is because one of her bullets sent Flynt off balance and everything domino'd from there. It was only luck that Neon tripped and tumbled into a geyser.