Board Thread:News and Events/@comment-933831-20160127201216/@comment-25389303-20160127220656

I'm going to have to disagree with you on that one. While yes, some characters have to rely on their Semblances, that still doesn't make it a good thing. Take Ruby for example. She needs her speed swing her scythe, right? That means she's almost always using her Semblance just to fight effectively.

Weiss...yeah, I agree with you there. Yang, on the other hand, not so much. She fights with pure skill and the firepower of her weapons for most of the fight, and only activates her Semblance towards the end of it after she's taken enough damage. Same with Pyrrha - she hardly ever uses her Semblance, to the point where hardly anyone even knows what it is, and yet she is still one of if not the greatest student at the academy.

What I'm saying is, I don't think that it's good to have a fighting style which needs a Semblance to work. It's just an opinion, but being able to hold their own on skill alone is major advantage.