Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-31079951-20170130191122/@comment-13895380-20170725120340

Sean 175 wrote: ^ Good to know. Scott holding back makes me kinda disagree. Because experience should tell him it probably won't work on someone like Liam.

But the situation with Malia didn't involve a full moon. Neither did the twins suitation. Liam's suitation involved a full moon & a supermoon at one point. By losing control, I think they were just saying he needed to do some form of shifting(regular shift or partial shift)in order to roar. Not go crazy like Cora & Boyd.

The roar thing does has some ill define things. Like does an alpha have to be thinking about what the want the roar to do to get whatever they want done(like force shifting,empowering,or make someone calm down) or is it a situational thing. 😎 There's no reason to assume Scott can't do it on a full moon. Derek did it on a full moon. This happened in S4, where Scott could easily control himself under a full moon and Kira  was there, his new anchor. It's not like he has to unleash his full power to beat an enemy. The moon wasn't affecting him at all that episode, and hasn't affected him in a long time.

It's not a difficult move to pull off. Need I remind you that Scott casually did it to Ethan and Aiden without having to partial shift. Scott can do this move under much more pressure and need than anything in that episode. As I said before, it definitely seems like a focused move rather than a "lose control" move. I'm not even talking about the supermoon scene, so I'm not sure why you keep bringing it up. :P

Again, the fact that you're stating the roar is ill defined proves my point. It's only used when convenient to the plot, so it's hard to guage its validity through canon.