User blog comment:WeissSchnee/Help Regarding Semblances/@comment-24445009-20140128222311

Reflect does need to have a limit to it. Maybe it can block something up to a punch and at the greatest length block something of great impact. I think that if you have a limit to it, then it should be acceptable.

Why was gravity rejected? If you made it to where the person affected can't move and crush them into bits, then it might be OP for a Beacon student, unless you have an OC where he/she is something of a Hunter class. However, if you can have it to where it just affects their movements or forces them into the air, then it's not OP. Thinking the best fight example of this comes from Fairy Tail, if you want some reference.

Shift...needs some work or needs more explanation because it sounds a little bland, unless you can explain more on it. Like what casues them to lose focus? Does their appearance cause some kind of vertigo or make them want to puke?

Edge: Can it also incorporate more than one element? Dust already has an element for each type, so if you can make the character maybe find a way to incorporate two elements, then that gives some excitement to it.

One thing that I would like to note is that you should also make Semblances that has the potential to grow. I know that Semblance and Aura are still up for debate until revealed, but if you think about it, Pyrrha's Semblance is already overpowered as a natural element. Magnetism...almost everything is made out of metal, especially when you think about the weapons used in the story. Monty might nerf it to where she has a limit, but if he has plans to expand the show, then it's definitely going to get strong to where even gravity shouldn't be a concerned element. And past fictional characters in other stories found ways to beat the ones whose abilites were OP to the point where it could destroy a freaking country...so yeah.