Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-32.208.226.199-20160526161241/@comment-26018514-20160906224305

Semblance's draw on aura, but they are not the same as aura. That is to say they change what aura can do, Pyrrha's can attract and repel metal objects, while Ruby's can generate rose petals.

So we know that using a semblance is using aura... but we don't know if it is used in the same way aura would be used as aura, if you master both however... or even just find the synergy between using both... it seems concievable that moonslice is not the semblance itself, but a combination move that utilizes it, while Laido is what taught him how.