Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25110963-20160313061904/@comment-27997419-20160318004536

Phantomlink959 wrote: You are definitely forgetting one VERY important factor.

His tactical advantage relies entirely on his semblance.

Using his semblance constantly would burn his aura up quite rapidly. No, it's not. That is the entire point of Magentos, he is naturally intellectually gifted. And is naturally good with martial arts and wielding weapons.

He would already be able to plan ahead, and make good fight strategies regardless. The semblance just improves this even further, allowing him to perform more risky counter-attacks, and make more complex plans, plan ahead further than before, and be able to predict opponents attacks...with better accuracy the closer they are to happen.

He ALWAYS has a tactical advantage, he would only use his semblance if he feels that his opponent's skills and/or attributes are so much greater than his enough to be a threat.

Summary, he is generally able to defeat more skilled opponents due to his NATURAL strategical ability + martial art giftedness...but when his opponent's skill and/or experience is so much higher than his that it creates a risk that he will lose, then his Semblance creates a way for him to find a strategical flaw in the opponent's fighting style and exploit it.

The fact that Magentos used the dual wielding style, and his Semblance while fighting Weiss...just goes to show how strong she was and how good her Dust control is.

But in no way it was a hard fight for Magentos, since he had strategical control over about 90% of the fight itself.