User blog comment:Forrestib/Painting The Town Combat Analysis/@comment-10380701-20140815010238/@comment-2006510-20140815011459

In practice, probably not. Yang's Semblance is to take the energy she's hit with, and use it against her opponents - which she did before destroying Junior's weapon. However, when she noticed her strands of hair gone, then she got REALLY mad and - presumably - used her own Aura to go even higher, rather her Semblance's use

After all, Junior didn't land a hit in-between those two events