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DeathChicken posted...

And here I thought Pony Garden was the most Mercenaries ability of all time

I'm just a lurker who rarely even votes, but I always thought the Most Mercs ability in existence would

A: Feature the wording "voters must take into account" somewhere.

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B: Be so vague that it's unclear what even happened.

So, my vote is Max for his Werewolf & Quetzacoatl results:

http://mercswiki.pbworks.com/w/page/20766404/Max%20(Sanitarium)

15% - The enemy thinks they are a werewolf. The terrain will automatically shift to a nighttime setting, and voters must take into account that the chosen enemy is now a garden variety werewolf with an overwhelming hunger for bone marrow to boot.

15% - The enemy thinks they are the reincarnation of Quetzalcoatl. They will fight slightly unnerfed that day.

How would I know an ability that completely alters someone is important if it doesn't say I must take it into account? I also like the way the enemy "thinks" they're a werewolf, but also actually are a werewolf. Also, does the ideal teammates clause prevent the werewolf from attacking its team? Because the hunger is "overwhelming" and there doesn't seem to be any trace of the original's personality to stop them from eating whoever is closest? But I can't imagine completely removing an enemy merc & spawning a hostile werewolf directly on top of the team was the intended reading of the ability either, so the hunger... isn't completely overwhelming? Maybe?

And Quetzalcoatl's result feels like an absolute nightmare: The opponent is unnerfed... slightly. Good luck obtaining consensus on what that even does!

I have no idea if anyone even purchased Max, but that ability has been in my head for so many years now. There's probably some ironic joke about the merc who makes people crazy breaking the mind of someone who isn't even part of the game, but either way, Max has always felt like the most Mercs ability that ever existed.

...okay, bye.