Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-24432027-20160105191553/@comment-26872876-20160106005046

It has flaws.

1) She has to take damage to use and enhance it. Thus, it only gets stronger the closer she is to losing her ability to fight. So the highest levels of the semblance's power comes when Yang is pretty much one shot. Thus, it pretty much works as a balancing act. She's close to being toast, but if you slip up... You're toast instead.

2) She can't hide fatigue. Her semblance is a waking moniter on her status. Power going up? She's close to falling down. Thus, any opponent familiar with her can easily use that information against her. An enemy could easily just back off letting her exhaust the rest of her aura chasing him/her down.

3) It adds no extreme dimension to her combat. She keeps the same speed and abilities, but they are just upgraded in damage. Thus, an enemy who may be winning the fight, may simply just need to keep the grind.

In conclusion, it's far from perfect. Many of her opponents have been melee based fighters who decide to try and go blow for blow with her. However, as we saw with Neon and Neo, her semblance is less useful if you don't try to trade blows and instead dodge and counter. Plus, many who have faced her have not even implemented a semblance that we know of.