Talk:Adam Taurus/@comment-86.145.202.79-20191214010639

Within all technicality there were three moments over the course of Adam's stay in RWBY where he was shown to use his Semblance and cause heavy, significant damage. Once in the Black Trailer, against the Spiderdroid. Once in Volume 3 against Yang. And once in his Volume 6 Character Short, where he kills an armed human male from a couple of metres away.

Of these three examples, the Moonslice against the Spiderdroid and against Yang were devastating - the Spiderdroid was utterly disintegrated, and Yang's Aura was instantly broken, leading to the loss of her arm. Both of these were used at point blank range, practically. The only one where that isn't true is against the gunman from the Short, but that was a human without an Aura.

In his Volume 6 fight against Yang and Blake, the biggest use of his Semblance happens at the end of Episode 11, from the other side of the natural bridge, after having used his Semblance fairly liberally up until that point. That attack doesn't break Yang's Aura, nor does it severely damage her prosthetic besides some superficial breakage. That's a far cry from the impact his other stikes of that magnitude have had in the past.

Now, I don't know if there has been discussion on this, but is it possible that Adam's Semblance not only works based on energy absorbed, but also the distance from the target? Considering his previous displays of power and the context surrounding them, it seems like a fairly reasonable limitation which would explain the inconsistency, and purported nerfing which floated around among critics. It doesn't really matter considering his death, but I think it's an interesting, and reasonable, possibility nonetheless.