Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-32910370-20170830113709/@comment-25936766-20170926141046

172.58.168.237 wrote: 1) Yes, Weiss with semblance is faster then Yang firing her gauntlets, but as you point out further down, semblance costs Aura, which has it's own disadvantages. The more she uses it, the easier she is take down.

2) .....I also see no real proof of Weiss having an additional training, either. At least it seems Yang had been practicing for years with her old man. Who taught Weiss? At best, they start on equal footing on that regard.

3) As far as anything related Neo and Adam related are concerned, the same more or less applies to Weiss. They are on an entire magnitude of raw aura better then team RWBY.

4) I mean, Yang needs to be able to endure what she takes. Weiss needs to win before she burns her aura out, too. They are two sides of the same coin in that regard.

5) Third, semblance runs on Aura, of course. Except Weiss has to actively expend her Aura to activate her powers. Yang's semblance just gets stronger the less aura she has, no extra expenditure on her part. Weiss has an active semblance, Yang has a passive semblance-

6) As far as their Duo's match went. A person on skates, and a ranged person who uses sound so it's not like you can just dodge his attacks as they approach for an offense.

7) Remember Cinder wanting to know whom RWBY was picking for the doubles? And her being able to manipulate the matching? She literally picked the best counter team to go against Yang/Weiss. And yet RWBY still won. 1) Yes, though it seems like just using the Glyphs to dash around costs little. The only time she noticeably got tired after using her Semblance, was after some time fighting the Nevermore (firing stuff and jumping around) + launching Ruby + making like 20+ Glyphs to sent Ruby up the wall.

Basically, it's only really problematic for her if she goes all out with them. If it's just Dashing around the cost is negligent.

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2) You misunderstand me heavily. I'm not talking about training or experience; in that regard, I'd say Ruby and Yang win (Signal + Qrow + Taiyang + actually fighting Grimm in the wild prior to Beacon). I'm talking about Skill.

Yang is nearly-nothing but punches. Due to her treating her Semblance like an automatic "Win"-button, she doesn't even bother to put her arms up and fucking block hits. Yang fights like a noob in a Fighting game, spamming random buttons and never blocking anything, then throwing Special Moves in desperation in hopes of winning.

Weiss has pretty good control and skill when using her Semblance and/or Dust, even if she makes noobish mistakes at times. She actually bothers to avoid attacks or block them as well, even as far back as in the White Trailer. And even her Summoning skills are improving.

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3) They are stronger (raw Aura is mostly irrelevant), yes, but that changes nothing.

>Yang still couldn't land a single hit on Neo, nor endure her kicks, nor did she even try to block her hits. Instead she kept using her Semblance to win, which was useless because she couldn't land a single hit.

>First thing she did against Adam, was to literally jump at him, and tried to give him a Semblance-boosted punch. Adam 1-shot-KOd her instead.

With the former case, we saw how Yang can't deal with fast enemies at all. While with the latter case, we see how she loves to take the Leroy Jenkins approach, fully expecting for her to be able to take on anything with her Semblance.

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4) Not really. Look at it this way: Imagine Aura is a magic shield in an RPG that absorbs damage at the cost of MP, MP that is also used by other spells.

>Shooting fireballs and lightning bolts and stuff costs, say, 12MP, 23MP, and so on.

>Receiving 150 points of damage automatically costs 150MP to be blocked by Aura.

Which means, that one could shoot spells for a while, as long as they avoid being hit, since being hit with a moderately-strong hit will cost far more MP than just shooting spells does.

Yang doesn't even bother to block attacks, she takes the full hit. And blocking damage reduces Aura much faster than it costs Weiss to just spam Glyphs.

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5) Yang's is not passive. It works like this: She gets "energy" when she takes damage. At any time, she can activate her Semblance to use that energy to power up her hits.

IIRC, Monty actually compared her Semblance to Special Meters in Fighting games. It fills up as one takes damage, and can be used to perform Special Moves.

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6) You can, actually, if you play smart. And if you can't dodge them, block them, which Yang failed to do for basically the entire fight.

7) Except Weiss and Yang actually could easily kick Neon and Flynt's asses. The problem is that these 2 are the dumbest members of Team RWBY.

>Weiss could keep up with Neon using her Glyphs, she could've more easily avoided her attacks and even put pressure on her with Dust.

>Yang is heavier than Weiss and could more easily take on Flynt's Sonic Gun, which did basically nothing but push things away.

But because they are the dumbest members of RWBY, they decided to each take on the one they couldn't easily beat. Neon is too fast for Yang, like Neo, while Weiss is easily pushed away by Flynt. They only reason they even won was dumb luck as a result.

That said, I feel like they were supposed to Win. Cinder's plan in the tournament involved exploiting Yang's personality to cause panic, by making the audience think she crippled Mercury for no good reason. (It should be noted, though, that while Merc attacking her was fake, Yang was the one who still decided to cripple him).