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Old Aug 25th, 2012, 8:35:25 PM   #37
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Originally Posted by Fat Zystral View Post
There isn't enough flavour to justify it, and if we were using a proper CAP process of "competitive matters", then Swarm would never be used over Compoundeyes (only because Blizzard). In fact, hardly anything would be used; Mountaineer is one of the few abilities Syclar could feasibly have that it would want over Compoundeyes, and the consensus is that we don't want Mountaineer.

So we could just go with no secondary ability altogether.... Just throwing that out there also.
To respond to the first section, we actually aren't working off of the normal CAP process. Instead, we are using the pre-evolution standards, which dictates that we focus first and foremost on flavor. I do understand your point of not getting behind Swarm though from your previous paragraph, so you're fine!

And that was a bloop on my part; no secondary ability would certainly be added to the secondary ability poll. My bad.
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