User blog comment:Nmtan/Review Waterfall & Mud Dragon Ratio/@comment-11259553-20130819124924/@comment-11259553-20130820060108

The Viking element definitely returns Flame hybrids. I've seen many instances of this. That's why I wasn't questioning if Viking = Flame in any other portions of the algorithm.

It would be interesting to see confirmation of a Rare Hybrid, as I haven't seen that specific case yet. It would confirm that Viking = Flame when the check for opposite elements is made. I wouldn't ask you to test it though because I haven't seen anything to suggest it's not working that way. I have seen Omega used to get Leviathan, and Demon used to get Pirate|Petroleum before the War/Light update. So it seems reasonable to assume that Viking is also working similarly in those types of cases.

For War to be returned from Thor + Flame though, it would require Viking != Flame when checking whether Flame is on both sides. Because if Viking = Flame at that point, then Flame would be returned instead of War. This was interesting to me because if there had been a similar issue with Egyptian|Omega|Dark it wouldn't have been visible since there has not been a pairing of a special element with an element with "incomplete" breeding possibilities before so the case could not have shown up.

Your first test disproved the hypothesis that Viking != Flame in that portion of the algorithm, as you got Flame which could only happen if Viking = Flame when the check for elementals was made. Thanks for taking the time to do that. :)

That would leave the report of War from Thor + Flame as the person misremembering, incorrectly reporting, or due to a bug or some part of the algorithm I'm not familiar with. I'm satisfied for now that it's not something that needs to be looked into further.