Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-131.123.61.0-20140416144504/@comment-99.185.49.181-20140418081548

"It doesn't seem to drain her as much as say Weiss's glyphs no, but at the same time whilst directing Jaune's shield she seemed to be concentrating and of her arms were out of commission for the entirety of the move. She was also stationary at the time."

I think her standing still was her trying to subtly control the movement, rather than sharply jerk it, which would have given away she was there and helping Juane.

"And worth mentioning is that Ruby's speed, Blake's shadow clones and Yang's fire seem to me like they would take far less toll on them with excess use whilst Pyrrha would tire quickly akin to Weiss when she uses her glyphs for stunts like the mountain scaling."

Weiss never really sseemed too tired after that, to be fair, the screen cut to the naming ceremony so we didnt get to see if she was whining the whole way back about being tired from Glyph spamming. And Pyrrha never seems to have gotten remotely tired from using her ability. (nobody has really)

"As for a sturdy, non-magnetic material that could be created by Monty to serve as a primary material for weaponsmithing... Do keep in mind that since he'd be the one creating it he could make it as abundant as he would like. Students wouldn't brag about such a metal being used in their weapons if said metal was as common, or easy to manufacture as some of the metals and alloys used in the real world."

We've had over 3 exposition characters, (All the professors, and a narrator, not to mention Ruby fawning over weapons and Nora's motor mouth along with Cardin's arrogant braggy nature). It's hard to belive Monty wouldn't mention at some point "Oh yes, and you all know your weapons made of X are especialy resistant to dulling, blunt damamge or dust, so you may use them freely without fear of severe maintanence after each grimm fight/hunt."

"Also, if you can lose control of a Semblance, Pyrrah's would be an absolute nightmare. Someone throws their weapon or fires a bullet and it immediately makes a beeline strait for her, and she can't dodge it unless she runs out of aura."

Mildly true, it takes a LOT of force to move a bullet midflight. (or consistant force like wind). and we have no idea if a Semblance can go out of control, as it seems to be directly related to your own Aura's levels. It may be a short burst of extreme power (making bullets and weapons fly all directions), and then you're spent and tired, but that's all speculation at best at this point.

"I think Monty's idea with Pyrrha's semblance was that it was meant to compliment her own weapon rather than using it as an offense. One of her weapons forms is a javalin which goes great with a semblance that can pul it right back after throwing. I'm going to lean on the notion that Pyrrha can also only use her semblance on one object at a time making her more venerable to dual wielders like Blake and Yang. "

Agreed, but since odds are most metals are magnetic (at least the weapon worthy ones) it applies to not just her weapon, but everyone's.

"I don't think pyrrha's magnetism is a story breaker power exactly but It is incredibly powerful even if she has no focus or stamina problems or restrictions what so ever she could still lose to the right opponent. Not in the way of cinder has fire so she can beat her since her magnetism won't work but via facing an aware opponent."

Even an aware opponenet will have a hard time taking on someone with the ability to throw stuff at them from long range and disarm them from an equally long range. True, Cinder has an advantage, but she's a top teir villain because she can take on Glynda, who uses pretty much straight magic. we haven't seen any other elemenatal users (other than Weiss who seems to get that power from her wepaon, not her Glyphs).

"if a smart enemy found out pyrrha had magnetism somehow then they could come up with a way around her abilities easy. get some poison gas, incendiary weapons, dust weapons,a flint knife etc. and have a good plan then she is totally beatable and if one guy does it others will wise up to how to beat her."

So "if you know their weakness you can beat them"...duh. that's like saying Ruby is easy to beat if you take away Cresent Rose and put her in a small space so her super speed means nothing. In general, Pyrrha has an immense advantage because of her magnetism power which she can use on the fly and without huge amounts of preparation necessary. "oh, they have a metal weapon. *magnetizes it to fly about 400 feet into the air or slam it into the ground crushing their fingers* And now they don't."