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Roman Torchwick's Semblance

I believe Roman has a semblance, an undiscovered one, but a semblance nevertheless.

That semblance involves technology. Namely, Roman has the ability to innately understand and use advanced technology without prior training or knowledge.

But because it's undiscovered, Roman's semblance is unpredictable and circumstantial.

Therefore, the more advanced the piece of technology, the faster Roman can master it. But less complex pieces of technology escape his understanding.

Firstly, Roman manages to pilot a Paladin, without any prior experience with the machine.

Roman also manages to fight very well against Sun Wukong and Ruby Rose. Both of them use very advanced and complex weapons.

He loses to Blake, however, who uses a simple sword.

This is why Roman could operate Ironwood's ship and jettison the Knights during the Fall of Beacon. Roman had an instinctive grasp of how Ironwood's tech worked, and this is due to his semblance.

But because this Semblance is untrained, it only works on very advanced technology, which is why Roman's fight record against the Huntsmen is hit and miss.

Therefore, it is possible that Roman may have a tech-based semblance that wasn't developed.