User blog comment:Nmtan/Review Waterfall & Mud Dragon Ratio/@comment-11259553-20130819124924

I wanted to share/discuss something with you and wasn't sure where to put it, so just continuing here. Sorry for it being off-topic.

In one of the Facebook groups today someone claims to have gotten a War from Thor + Flame. I haven't been able to test it yet, but I have no cause to doubt the person.

If true, this suggests that Viking isn't fully functional as Flame in the breeding formula. It seems to operate as Flame in all other cases I've seen, but here it likely is looking for Viking+Flame at some point and not seeing it as Flame+Flame. (Since the only other possible combination is War+Flame and that's Juggernaut.)

It would be interesting to see how extensive this discrepancy with Viking is, if Terra and Nature would also be able to return War, or if it's just limited to the check for elementals. I would guess it's limited to the check for elementals because Viking seems to function as Flame in all other cases I've seen.

It might suggest that Omega + Sea returns Sea not because Omega is equating to Sea (thus Sea + Sea = Sea), but because Omega + Sea is not possible at that stage of the algorithm? Certainly Omega equates to Sea at other parts of the algorithm though. (Similar for Demon|Dark and Egyptian|Electric.)