Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25396609-20170505174118/@comment-27447621-20170531195746

Ok.

1) I've always seen her semblance as a one-time temporary boost to all her attacks (minus the shots from the Celica). Until she deliberately activates the Semblance, her attacks do the same amount of damage as they normally would, and when she activates it, then her attacks do more.

When does melanie slice a shell in half? can I get a rough time in the Yellow trailer? I just want to check for myself.

2) We're NOT talking about Huntsmen or Huntresses. We're talking about Grimm. Grimm, as per Pyrrha, don't have an Aura because they lack a soul. It doesn't depend on what Huntsman, because huntsmen aren't usually the target. Huntsmen protect against Grimm, not each other.

You do get the ciminals like Roman, but they're generally the exception, not the norm.

3) You're right. My bad, I was just really tired.

3.5/4) I understand your confusion with the 13 CM- I did an AWFUL job of explaining, and used the wrong blast in my calculations, using the blast from firing the shot, not the blast from the explosion. What I TRIED to do was Pixel Measurements, but I screwed up my calculations. My bad. Disregard those numbers, let me try again.

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Let me redo these calculations and show you my thought process. The cm and Meter numbers you saw can be disregarded. those were based on Pixel Measurements, and I can show you new calculations for the size of the fireball if you want, but I didn't end up needing the pixel measurements as much as I thought I would.

I ended up using a Blast Parameter Calculator. I'm comparing the load to TNT (bacause Fire Dust isn't an option, surprisingly), and made the assumption that the Fire Dust rounds weighed the same as Shotgun Slugs. I assumed the distance was .05 meters (seeing as she's usually using it to beef up her punches). Assuming I'm running this calculator right (which I'm probably not) that means you'd be experiencing 22034 Kilopascals or 3195.76 PSI per explosion. To compare, the strongest punch I could find was 2700 PSI, thrown by Cain Velasquez, a man with way more MMA experience with more muscle mass than Yang (sans semblance). And the shock wave passes through a person, doing 3195 PSI to every organ in their body, not just the contact area.

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...I'm such a nerd. This is what watching Game Theory on YouTube has done to me!

Anywho, the blast does tons more damage than the punch because it deals comparable PSI (assuming Yang's aura makes her stronger than Cain) but affects the whole body. At 10 PSI from an explosion, you're heart and lungs take serious damage. And remember, we're typically talking about Grimm here, beings without Aura.

And lastly, Size =/= force? Really? Shall we compare, let's say, 1 kg of TNT to 100? To 1000? I'd hazard a guess that it does make quite a bit of difference based on size. If the size AND composition change, then it's a different story.