Talk:Regenerative Replication/@comment-24350816-20140303030128/@comment-4867780-20140303095202

Good point. Absorption is often an effective strategy against targets with a very strong life-force. Though considering the user can sprout an endless number of full bodies from the smallest shard, his life-force is probably as endless. So he wouldn't weaken, while the absorber would end up overloading sooner or later.

In the same way, biological absorption seems like an insuperable task. Considering the overwhelming life-force required to multiply endlessly at such speed, a single piece of flesh may end up dramatically saturating the absorber's metabolism.

All since biological absorption is pretty messy, you'd probably generate a dozen new bodies before you're half-way done with the first.And let's not even talk about what would happen if new bodies start sprouting inside the absorber (ouch).

And yes, even if the absorber survived the experience, the RR user would probably be dominant considering his sheer weight. And even if the absber still managed to retain control, there would still be no end to it anyway.

So no, it retrospect it doesn't seem like a valid strategy ^ ^;

Well, except probably for Absorbing Replication, because its hyper-adaptive nature allows the user to absorb an endless amount of anything without any side-effect, because the user merges with the target during the absorption (taking control of it) and because the full-powered absorption would neutralize the benefit of multiplication (numbers mean little before a black hole). And also because the user takes on the RR user's properties anyway, allowing him to multiply even faster via shapeshifting (dispersion & regrowth).

overloading the absorber at some point.

that seems too much to digest for most absorbers.

Well, except for Absorbing Replication since the user take on his targets properties the instant it starts absorbing.