Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-71.1.235.131-20171022191243/@comment-26397825-20171023122216

I was talking about people inside the ring, who are expected to use their semblance so it can't be called cheating really.

Outside the ring...well, I think you are kind of overthinking it in terms of cheaters. For instance, in order to cheat you have to have a semblance that is subtle and can actually affect the person you want to lose. Sure, it's possible, but the odds of it actually happening are so low that I doubt it's ever been a concern before now.

Ozpin has more important things than figuring out stuff about semblances - which, by the way, are unique to the person and work in different ways for every single person. What applies to one person does not apply to everyone else. So even if he did study semblances, it'd basically just be studying individual cases. You'd end up with a list a mile long that you've then got to account for every single little variation...and it becomes such a big job that you might as well not even bother. There's always going to be someone who slips through the cracks because you can't make something like that foolproof.