User blog comment:Zathronas/Analysis by an author: Volume 2 episode 11: No brakes/@comment-3146930-20141024021616/@comment-3146930-20141024223745

The thing is Neo isn't a mook, she is Roman's right hand woman so it seems. Those armies of faceless mask wearing White Fang members on the other hand might as well just lay down as they have no shot of beating main characters. What I'm saying is that in previous fights (with the exception of the food fight) Yang would pretty much always use her Semblance which is usually shown being activated by her eyes changing color or that weird fire aura that sometimes appears. However despite Neo kicking her butt, hitting Yang several times, and pissing her off by toying with her without a word, Yang's Semblance never activates when before she would use it even when she didn't need to.