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RaijinRising wrote: SirGauoftheSquareTable wrote: I'm pretty sure Adam's afterimages are due to his sheer speed more than anything else. Except they're not. If you look at one of the (if not the?) first uses of his afterimages, the "real Adam" stays back while the black and red images rush forth to fight Yang, and then Adam comes from behind his images to deliver the final blow of the sequence.

His Semblance goes beyond "dishing damage back out without feeling it" like Blake said, because this is certainly an application of his Semblance that Yang cannot do. Could still be due to sheer speed because in anime world, he could be moving so fast he's almost simultaneously striking Yang while also "hanging back".