User blog:Forrestib/Painting The Town Combat Analysis

Ok, we got a lot of new stuff to talk about here. I guess I'll just work my way forward from the beginning of the fight.

The first thing is a minor one. Neptune's weapon is not the gun-gun. I never thought it was, but a lot of people did. Now we know for sure.

We also get our first look at Sun's Semblance. He can make really cool looking light clones of himself... that don't seem to be able to do anything. I'm not sure how that's useful, but at least it still looks cool.

Holographic guardrails are the worst idea ever, of all time. Seriously, they didn't even slow it down, as in at all.

Now we learn that Ruby very intelligently set up codewords for battle strategies. "Freezer Burn" is for Yang melting a patch of Weiss' ice to create fog cover. "Checkmate" means that Weiss ubercharges Blake which lets her throw energy waves that can intercept projectiles. "Ladybug" is Blake and Ruby constantly assaulting the opponent from opposite sides to disorient and damage them as much as possible. "Bumblebee" means that Blake swings Yang around on the tip of her rope at high speeds to increase the power of Yang's punches. "Ice Flower" is where Weiss augments the bullets fired by Crescent Rose to act as miniature cryogenic explosives upon impact.

We also learn that the Paladin is crazy fast. Just watch how much it moves its arm before hitting Yang, and when it punches her she's still in the air from hitting the pillar. I guess Torchwick wasn't really using that thing to its full potential.

Now, we hear a bit from Ruby about how Yang's Semblance works too. She's absorbing energy and then redirecting it. She actually has a lot more in common with that guy from "X-Men: First Class" than she has in common with any super-saiyan. This also makes Yang almost impossible to kill using traditional means. She very well might have just jumped up my list to become one of the two or three most powerful students at Beacon.

We also meet Roman's new best bud, Neo. She has an umbrella that can stop explosives. Her Semblance appears to be impact-induced teleportation, or possibly something having to do with illusions. Anyway it looks like what happened when Ruby found out about the team selection method. I'm not gonna try and guess what she's based off of because other people seem to be way better at that than me.

That's it for now. I hope someone found this usefull somehow. Bye ( =