Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-131.123.61.0-20140416144504/@comment-24845707-20140421154223

Ok, acutally signed up for the wiki (I'm the one who started the thread)

"On a general note, noone's semblance seems overpowered so far in comparison to the others, as different as they are."

Ehh, depends on application.

"I'd say, going back to the insert, the semblances are complimentary to the individual characters and complementary between the various characters in the teams."

Agreed

"I think much of this will depend on how much her power develops. At higher levels, she may end up like Magneto, with the ability to weaponize pretty much any peice of metal with truly absurd amounts of applications, making her an extremely versatile fighter capable of disarming, disabling and killing almost any type of opponent in the most horrifying and gruesome of ways."

Entirely possible, anmd given her opponents are monsters, she could probably use that kind of ability to ridiculous extent and efficency.

"Not that heroes ever use their powers to their fullest potential anyway."

Not the lawful good ones anyway.

"MattK I actually see Weiss and Pyrrha as having their semblance already more developped than Blake's, Ruby's or Yang's. Hell Pyrrha, to me, could easily have already reached her semblance's limit with simply being able to control a single light, metallic object for short periods of time over incredible distances. If that is the case then she's got a powerful semblance but may not actually pass her current power level whilst Ruby, Blake or even Nora or Ren (since we don't know their semblances) could easily surpass her."

Until we know someone's semblance, we can't really say how powerful they are. (though I'd willing to bet Ren's will involve Chi (Aura) explosions, Nora's probabaly lightning if she's a genderbent Thor)

"As far as Pyrrha controlling Jaune's shield by concentrating, I don't think she was trying to slowly move it so that Jaune wouldn't notice. The more likely explanation is that Jaune was far away, forcing her to focus more."

I can believe it's a combanation of the two, but even so, a hard jerk would have been more efficient (could have smacked the Ursa hard enough to unbalance it much more), and we know Pyrrha is trying to boost Juane's confidence in himself. If she wanted him to know she was there, she, Ruby, and Wiess could have easily just jumped in, defeated the Ursa, and told Cardin to keep his trap shut or they'd follow Nora's suggestion about crippling him. Pyrrha is trying to be Juane's mentor/friend (possibly girlfriend), so making him think he's able to match up to enemies like a huge Ursa is much better than jumping in and rescuign him, which we alreayd know he's not fond of, but appreciates.

"There were a few times in the first half of Volume 1 where Pyrrha could call her spear back to her, but she was very close to it."

Why waste the energy when she can just walk over and pick it up?

"As far as Weiss being tired after the Nevermore attack, she doesn't seem too tired before the scene shifts to the naming ceremony. However at about the 10:28 mark, right after she makes a trail of Glyphs up the cliff, she clearly appears tired so a Semblance can deplete a person's energy."

Fair enough, I must have missed that on my initial viewing. Though as you said, that was from the immense amount of glyph spamming (and probabaly because she did it from a huge distance up a massive surface).

<p style="margin-bottom:0px!important;">"The same may be true for Ren, as he seemed fine after the fight with the King Taijitu, but in the next episode he is clearly tired when him and Nora arrive."

<p style="margin-bottom:0px!important;">From chasing the ursa Nora was RIDING.

<p style="margin-bottom:0px!important;">"He also completely passed out after his team defeats the Death Stalker and is never seen using his Aura as he did earlier, so Aura may also drain a person's energy"

<p style="margin-bottom:0px!important;">Likely, since aura seems to effectivly be an HP guage. (could just be people knowing that without Aura, you become ridiculously vulnerable compared to using it so people avoid fighting without their aura going. Also he got slammed into a column and knocked out, and seemed injured as he was limping. So his wasn't Aura abuse, more he got his ass handed to him and he isn't as durable as the others.

<p style="margin-bottom:0px!important;">"(but there obviously could be other factors)."

<p style="margin-bottom:0px!important;">Agreed

<p style="margin-bottom:0px!important;">"It is hard to tell with other characters, as only Weiss really used her Semblance to such a large degree, making multiple Glyphs back to back."

<p style="margin-bottom:0px!important;">True.