User blog comment:DYBAD/Character Sheet/@comment-24696772-20150105103135/@comment-4867780-20150106100832

Indeed ^ ^ AR's only credible weakness is the existence of exceptions that cannot be absorbed/replicated, and the reason with almighty abilities beat it. Lawrence escaped this fate by pushing his origin story as high and far as it can possibly go, ensuring that his power is truly all-encompassing, and indirectly removing the possibility for counters and adaptation.

In this case, another origin shard could have the ability to spontaneously creates new templates and switch them at will (Superior Adaptation), but the gained abilities would remain secondary properties, thus without effect/resistance against Lawrence's primary absorption. The adaptive shard itself would be equally powerless, as its primary ability to create new templates wouldn't stop Lawrence from merging with it and claiming its self-evolving ability for himself.