RWBY: Yang's Burn vs Adam's Moonslice - Power Augmentation Semblances Explained 

“Able to end fights in a flash, as Yang has experienced firstHAND” Poor choice of words

When yang took adam’s sword, only one phrase came to my mind “Now you know how it feels to be DISARMED” YYYYYEEEEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

Blake: he gathers energy in his sword and sends it back Yang: so it's the same type of stand as burn Adam: don't Yang: *starts creating afterimages*

Adam cutting Yang’s arm off is especially impressive since from what I saw and it was implied Yang was at full Aura from what I remembered

Anyone else got what he meant when he said Yang has experience it “first hand” while showing the image of Yang getting her arm cut off.

Yang- a saiyan without a tail Adam- a saiyan who relies on their tail Their powers both rely on absorption but offer a risk with one and the other doesn’t

According to RWBY Chibi, Yang's semblamce also has a heat factor, meaning the hair is not just for visuals if we're taking it seriously. So perhaps when Yang evolves her abilities, she could perform some firey like techniques. Maybe something like a Hadouken from Street Fighter.

I think semblances should have a classification system. Like the Nen types in HunterxHunter. Yang, Adam, Nora and Shienna could be an Empowering type or a conditional type that has to fullfil a requirement to work while, Blake, Sun, Neo and Cinder could be one of materialization. Jaune, Emerald and Ren can be a "Dominion" type since they can influence others directly. That would be something cool to see.

Imagine if there was a Huntsman with a Semblance that allows him or her to absorb the energy of Dust crystals to increase the power of their attacks

Salutations everyone! I hope you’re all combat ready!

Every other member of team RWBY has had their semblance evolve in some way, it's Yang's turn next. Whether that means simply going SSJ2, or channeling the absorbed damage differently, it's time for something new.

“Firsthand”... I- yes.

I actually get the feeling this semblance similarity was supposed to hint at a connection between Yang and Adam, be it familial or otherwise. Both of them flat out glow, both of them were called examples of Strength (By The Leader of the White Fang and Blake) both of them have anger and temper issues (Adam especially) and both of them have had personal problems with Blake with a similar issue (Blake having left both) What seals the deal on this to me is the fact Raven looks identical to Adam with her grimm mask and even fights with a similar style. Monty said Adam and Ruby arent related but Raven isnt related to Ruby either. Whether this is an upcoming plot line or something Monty wanted to do. But i think it wouldve been an interesting dynamic. Finding out that the person who cut off your arm is your half brother.

I don't think Yang's aura actually broke but it was super close to breaking

Honestly moon slice is my favorite semblance in the show. Combined with wilt/blush he's easily one of my favorite designs. Just wish they did his character a bit better.

8:49 Is this a pun? "As Yang has experienced first HAND."

I kinda wouldn’t say Adam is really strong because if u imagine him being in a fight and he didn’t have Wilt. Obviously he wouldn’t be able to use his semblance since he relys so much on his sword to be able to use his semblance, he wouldn’t be well good in a fight. Unless he has a way of utilizing his semblance the same way Yang does which in my opinion would be so COOL.

Here's my question: It seems like every time Adam absorb's the energy from an attack, it's through his sword, Wilt. So, is it possible that he NEEDS to block an attack for it to be absorbed - as in, if an attack goes through his defenses and hit's him, it does no good for him, and he just takes the damage? If so, that balances out his semblance's capabilities.

Oh yeah two of my fave semblances of the show! I always wondered if Adam needed his weapon specifically to send out a moonslice, or if he can use it with any blade type weapon. Wonder how he unlocked it too, so many questions. I'm excited to see how Yang's will evolve as time goes by. Would other (lack of a better word) stats go up, like speed or defense? Or will it always stay purely offense? Would the amount of damage she dishes out be 3x instead of 2x? I'm excited to see what future volumes will hold :)

These are two characters with some awesome semblances. I really like how you went into detail on how these semblances work and how Yang might be able to use it in the future. Fun fact, there was a post on Reddit with a really cool theory that when Yang uses her semblance, her hair catches fire because she is releasing thermal energy through her hair.

"As Yang has experienced first*hand*" Damn near spit me coffee out

Adam’s semblance reminds me of Pyramid Head from Silent Hill and the Great Knife he wields. I really hope they do a least a little something more with Adam or make a new villain similar to him in the future🤗

I feel like the mechanics behind Yang's burn could be an exception to the rule that people need their aura active to use their semblence. My understanding is that most semblences use aura that has not yet been spent to be used. Yang's semblence 'spends' aura by tanking, and then doubles back into a burst of strength and damage, but not spending any of her natural aura reserves.

I wonder I mean Blake was somewhat thought she was in love with Adam so maybe Rooster Teeth might create a character female who actual loved him and she might try to get revenge on Blake and Yang giving us some more Adam but through flashbacks?

"...able to end fights in a flash, as Yang experienced firstHAND" -._-.

In Yang’s volume 5 character short, the only reason I could think of why her aura looked like it had broken is because she was unconscious for that split second

My thoughts on Moonslice: Adam doesn't just store damage, he's able to store kinetic energy and manifest it in different ways. His most famous use is collecting force in his sword and building it up to a massive slash of damage. But a more subtle version could be him storing his own energy from running and moving, and generating those afterimages to confuse his opponents. Just my own take tho

I’m guessing in the character short Yang’s aura fizzled like what we see in the series the sound was probably to mean it more suspenseful

",,,therefore his semblance is reliant on his sword,,,, but it's not though." *vsauce music plays*

It could be that Yang's semblance was activated just as her aura broke. Resulting in that strange anomaly.

yang character short wasn't a break to me it's more of a crack like when Blake is smacked into the wall in her fight with vine. I think they just not figured out how they gonna show that yet since it volume 5 and Blake was in volume 7 which we can now clearly see a crack flash and a full break like with winter and Oscar were it's all fade into small dust around them briefly

I heard someone say “can he use moonslice on a rock?” And I honestly think he could, but he’d probably have to absorb the damage through that rock to fill it with energy.

Semblance idea Name: siphon The user gains the the ability to steal aura from another life form (who can use aura) through physical contact, replenishing their reserves or augmenting their strength. However the user cannot absorb projectiles and will take fall damage as well as damage from creatures without aura aka grim. Ability is based off of bans physical hunt from seven deadly sins

I had always viewed Moonslice as ability only from the sword itself, since the ability seemed to work so narrowly. My headcanon was the sword was a special form of dust that somehow molded with Adam, and the dark clones were his true semblance. I hesitate to call them after-images only because they sometimes pop out in front of him, while he stands in place. Again, this is the only time we've seen this ability so it is difficult to judge.

I really enjoy your videos, man. I hope your doing ok!

This actually reminds me of that time Death Battle did the Yang vs Tifa fight. Yang won and their reasoning for it was Yang could take whatever Tifa threw at her that her semblance was unlimited. Talk about BS. Wiz and Boomstick really dropped the ball there. The only question is if it was intentionally wrong

Thank you! You explaining Adam’s afterimages at least gives me a pseudo plausible explanation for how he was able to teleport on the radio tower while chasing Blake in volume 6

K, I just have to say this because it bugged me and I have to be slightly pendantic, so please forgive my O.C.D. nature. Your usage of the word sheath is not the proper word for Blush. A sheath is a semi flexable leather covering for a blade. Blush's composition is a form of scabbard, spacifically one built for a katana known as a Saya. Now with that out of the way, Thank you for making an awesome video using compare and contrast points regarding two seemingly identical semblances.

I miss Adam! 😭 And I wish they would've made him Yang's half brother. Seeing as he looks similar with his mask and fights similar to Raven.

Totally not related to the topic but I love your Deadman Wonderland shirt

Really like this breakdown of how each semblance works. One critique I will make though is using "damage" as a unit. Yang can dish out double the damage doesn't really make sense as what is "damage" in this sense? A sword does more "damage" than a fist but is that really a property of the semblance? Personally I've always thought of burn and moonslice more akin to kinetic energy absorbtion and channelling semblances. That provides something much easier to measure and gauge.

New crazy semblance idea. Doppler. He would sacrifice his own aura completely to create a free moving and thinking copy of himself willing to fight and do tasks but is it's own person. It has the durability that of your aura untill break. When it is destroyed the excess damage in the strike killing it gets transferred to the creator as it dissolves into mist.

Maybe Yang doesn't need aura to give back the damage, but needs it to store the damage. If so, her aura did break in that fight, but she still could give the damage back as there is no consumption in doing so. Pre-consumption of aura so to say.

I always thought of the aura cloak as a seperate thing from semblance, though they draw from the same 'tank'. If someone took enough damage that their cloak breaks, that doesn't mean they are completely out of aura and could activate a low-level bit of semblance, depending on how much they shunt into the cloak

Aura shield depletion doesnt mean complete aura in body depletions so they can still use their semblance specially since aura seems to be like maba there which is a life force so u die if u actually use em all up so no shield just means ur low on it or each of them has different max shield capacity but it is not the same as their aura capacity meaning they have spare aura but their shield also uses their aura but max aur is not the same as max shield they can alot their aura on. Also adam has no fought a lot of during the time he cut yangs arm so maybe adam can store as much as he wants for a long time so he may have collected way too much already by then which is why he could release enough to cut through yangs remaining shield and arm

“Adam is...” awww, someone’s still in denial.

Actually there are different effects of aura. Volume 3 introduced it as a fade out effects dispersing from the middle of a person to the top and bottom. Volume 4 continued this effect, aside from Nora during the finale for some reason, and volume 5 and 6 gave off a more wild disperse effect. lately, it's been more clear as one's aura flickers then disperses in little particles but in the vol 5 character short, it's been said to be an aura flicker and not a break. if my memory serves me correctly, a good example of a vol 5 aura break would be Ghira during the Belladonna/white fang battle, Raven vs Cinder, and Weiss vs Vernal.

I would think if you hit Adam's sword hard enough it would absorb to much energy and snap before he can attack A little thing I didn't meant about my OC's Semblance When using the Aura projection part of his semblance he can't move so he fights with others to have Assistance to protect him when he does use the Aura Projection if he was in a one on one fight he'd be toast To be more specific when Akira projects larger illusions using the ability he will need his team or at least someone to assist him as defense

8:54 "has yang have experience first hand" got me cracking up

8:55 "as yang has experienced first-hand" 𝘱𝘶𝘯 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘥...?

Yang with afterimages? Is it just me, or does that make for an easy JoJo's reference? Also that'd be cool to see

Mad respects for the Deadman Wonderland shirt

I think yangs fireball in the V7 Intro was supposed to be her using her aura/semblance that never showed up in the show

Adam's semblance may be one to one in energy output, its just focused

Yang: One Punch Woman!

Yang train her robotic arm into a flaming torpedo of pain basically.

Holy shit I’m early, also does a gravity based semblance work? ( this is for an oc who can control the gravitational pull of any one object at a time. For example she make her self or any object/creature change what they are gravitating two words like the floor becomes her ceiling etc.

I personally thought Yang was already on the path focusing her semblance to make it more potent. However she might not have fully mastered that way yet thus does not use it in serious combat because its serious combat. You really should not gamble on things you have mastered in serious fights

Makes me wonder what other uses his semblance would have held. Could he channel energy into a bullet and have it explode in a plume of red? Could he throw a rock and have it be more powerful then than it was just sitting? And if he didn't just use strength to solve his problems like Raven and use his power tactically, he could probably use it like Blake's semblance, albeit like one of her burn-infused shadows, leaving it behind to explode when hit. And it also makes me wonder if Yang's semblance can evolve as Oz said. It's likely she may get a new ability later on, like how Ruby is able to de-materialize into 3 petal bursts. Perhaps she will be able to launch projectile-like energy clusters if she powers up

To honest i wans't expect adam have that kind of style of after image of himself while fighting off yang.

I think I've seen someones aura being broken and them still using their semblance. It happened at the end the current volume when winter and penny were fighting cinder.

I always wondered how these compare to Hype (Coco). Hype clearly takes a toll on aura to boost damage, but Moonslice and Burn seem to get their power from damage received, so does it actually drain any aura to use? Sure, Yang needs to lose aura, but it’s incidental.

I was kinda Scared when Adam cuts Yang's Arm off.

Are you gonna explain Jaune's Semblance next? Because currently he just unlocked it and I'm curious about how you think his semblance is going to evolve in the future, especially in Vol 8.

I watched the Yang volume 5 short real quick and it did flicker, but I don't think it broke . Also that would make 2 times actually in the RWBY series, 1 very recently in season 7. Where Vine smacked Blake into the wall and made Blake's aura flicker (don't think this broke either allthough it made some wierd sounds while flickering) and Blake was still able to use her semblance to hide Yang's explosions in one off her clones.

Maybe adrenaline can increase your aura slightly like so you could take one more hit. Because I assume that yang in the character short would have adrenaline pumping in her because it looked like ruby was going to die.

the thing with yang could have been caused by her aura break kind of like when jaune activated his aura when cardin made impact with his face think of it like when seraphina's aura breaks all of that heat that she's built up is let out

Alright well I've already voiced my opinion on Adam's semblance possibly absorbing dust energy instead of damage more than once. So I'll set that aside. I do believe firstly what we see in the character short was an aura flicker. Not a break. Meaning her aura was near the limit. As her semblance clearly activated. Every sign points to it being a flicker. Also I'd say we have already seen Yang do that very thing with a focused punch. She waited and felt out to the last minute when she fought Adam. Somehow feeling out the limits of her aura to then activate her semblance And punch him with every bit of stored power she had all at once. Its said she dishes back twice the damage. But that is cumulative. It builds as Monty compared it to. A power meter. And can be unleashed in a.flurry or all at once to double the current built up damage vs her aura limit. Her aura broke right after punching him. And he took so much damage then that He couldn't absorb it through his body and his aura broke. Rendering his own semblance unusable at that point with or without his sword. The true difference is simply in the methods of absorption and release. I did mispeak a little in saying Yang truly focused it to a single point. But she does already have the ability to gauge the limits of her own aura through feel alone and not need to use a scroll. Her body is her weapon while Adam learned to release the energy through the body with how he moves his body or with how he alters his slash. I'm not sure it's possible for Yang to focus her aura to a single point because it augments her body in general and doesn't seem able to alter the release. More how much power she releases as she strikes. The name Burn in general likely refers to a candle that burns it's brightest right before burning out. As has been the comparison with Yang throughout most of the series. If Yang can learn some finer aura control then sure. But the way they are taking it. She is keeping her semblance held back as Tai taught her. Use it at the last second to maximize damage and not waste the energy by flaring up with nothing to hit.

Makes sense 2 me. By the way I heard v8 will take the time spam of 2 day if I heard and state it correctly though I can’t say 4 certain

God I love this channel, but Yang becoming Doomfist from Overwatch would be pretty funny and awesome

Are you gonna be doing another poll soon?

I think Adam’s energy blasts multiply strength because he’s swinging out the energy, rather than channeling it through his body.

Hey Phoenix night have u heard that volume 8 is going to take place over the course of 2 days . What do u think of it

Okay that makes a lot of sense with Adam. But Adam is A crazy Awesome Character and fighter to my opinion although I love this Explanation . And My OC maybe already had an augmentation semblance lol

i have a theory that in the yang character short she unlocked her semblance in that moment and for been the first time using it she was able to unconciosly use it whitout aura or maybe is just the animators try to confuse us or something

Me: *realizing that Yang could basically be like Saitama* 😰 I am so scared

There are differen cues for Aura breaking and Aura just getting weak. If the Aura gets weak, it flimmers. If the Aura breaks, you can see it becoming particles and breaking away from the fighter. The sound is imo a universal sound that just shows the Aura being affected. IF the Aura breaks, as far as I can remember, you can hear another sound (like glass breaking) after the normal sound. So I don't think Yang's Aura broke in the short. It was just running low.

I'm pretty sure that Yang had one punch left when she took out that Ursa in the trailer.

Both Adam and Yang's Semblance are very Entwined with their fighting styles. Yang's Semblance is good for Dealing with large groups of enemies Considering her attacks can leave devastating shock waves and she's mostly a tank. But she's not very good with dealing with people who are faster than her and can Dodge or attack her first because she a close combat fighter. Adam's Semblance is good for Single combat Specially against strong character he is faster than. However he does not do well against multiple opponents especially if he's by himself against people who know how to work together As we saw when he fought both Bleck and Yang.

We don't talk about volume 5.🤫🤐

It’s also worth mentioning Adam’s semblance lets him shrug off pain (for some reason). I think if Yang trained more with her own semblance she could do the same.

I always wondered why Adam didn't try to get his sheth when he lost he's sword. I mean it can turn in to a shot gun and a sub machine gun.

There are countless instances of Aura breaking before someone using their Semblance, at this point I think it's not cannon for it to matter anymore.

Yang can put her stored energy into her gauntlets and even her robotic arm so it's not to far feched that she would be able to store energy even when her gauntlets get hit maybe Adams semblance is already awakened and that is why he can collect energy from his sword and why he can use after image maybe but that's just a theory on why his power augment semblace is so powerful

You actually said something awhile ago that explains how yang used her semblance in the volume 5 short. Simply put you suggested that an aura cloak isn’t a persons entire aura, so yang’s aura cloak broke leaving only a tiny amount of her aura but just enough to activate her semblance and end the fight.

Adams body wasnt recovered, by classic movie/comic tropes there might b a chance he survived we dont know what happen to his chainsaw Lt from the first 3 vols so the fang and pssibly adam could play a part further down the road. Thats my opion

at 8:55 you make a dark pun. whether it was intended or not, i do now know

so basically, moonslice is just burn+shadow

Is controlling air density an overpowered semblance? I'm considering giving one of my fan characters this, but I think it might be OP or too close to magic even if I give her a max range. I gave her one that is like Hawkes from BNHA, but am considering replacing it with this one.

I think her aura fully broke. However, her semblance was pretty fed and I don't think all that energy would just disappear instantly. I feel like her taking the hits sort of fills the condition or cost of her semblance rather than it using a set amount of aura.

Maybe will will see it in volume 8

9:20 So, you're saying...she would MELT HER BOOOOONES!

Kinda op, but the ability to empower through impact . Like when punching the ability absorbs the impact and makes the next stronger and so on.

It'd be lame if Yang learned to absorb damage via weapon considering she called it cheap when Adam did it.

This does make a lot of sense. It makes me wonder how Adam is able to channel his Aura through an object. I don't think we've seen anything like that before in the series.

So, in this video a thought, a hypothesis really, popped into my head. Nen. From Hunter X Hunter their "magical mcguffin" is called Nen, it's basically just an expansion into what everyone knows as "Chi" or "Ki" the innate energy coursing through a person's body... much like Aura. In Hunter there are different "styles" of using Nen, Emitters will use it as a projectile, Enhances use it in their muscles, Conjurers use it to create physical things out of thin air, or rather, out of Nen. However, there's nothing saying this is how you HAVE to use it. There is example of a "Enhancer" who should be using it to buff his body, but instead used it to shoot projectiles, to a lesser effect than he would in his "Area of expertise". I find this is a good way to think about any form of "Magic" or "Aura" or "Ki" in media. It's not that anyone has to do something in a specific way, it's more like, this person's body is MADE to do it this way, and if they don't then they're not really working at full capacity. I hypothesize, that this is similar to the relation of Aura and Semblance, that a person finds their semblance to be a VERY easy way to use their aura. and that while they possibly COULD imitate someone else's semblance, they shouldn't generally because it wouldn't work as well for them. As such, I hypothesize, Yang COULD do anything Adam could, as her Semblance, the natural way her aura works in conjunction with her body, is very similar to his, she could imitate his abilities both well, and effectively. I can imagine were she to try and "Emit" into her bullets, she could let off a huge Supernova-styled nuke in a single blow, which would be very thematic for her. However while she can, the question remains if she should, her abilities have given her the most easy outlet for her abilities anything more is spreading yourself thin, and while she could do it, it may come at a cost, perhaps even more of her aura, or leaving herself open.

Could Yang do the same thing as Adam? I don´t think that her semblances broke completely . what type of faunus is Adam?

I want to why what the red aura thing is... because Adam uses it and Weiss used it once in the white trailer. 🤷🏻‍♂️

When Wilt Got thrown off the edge of the clift one thing confuses me Why did Adam Try to take Blake's weapon instead of using Blush as a conduit for his aura? That would have been much smarter cause he didnt lose Blush only his sword wilt got thrown off

Honestly Adam has or should I say HAD (because he ded) one of the strongest semblances in the series, he would have made a great huntsman if he wasn't so messed up in the head