Base Ability

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Basically, a Base Ability is an ability upon which others are based. This means that all the abilities that share one Base Ability should be similar in nature.

Usually, the Base Ability refers to the ability that a new ability is created from in the Abilities Section, in World Editor's Object Editor. But in the case where the created ability has no similarities to the ability it is based on, the two abilities aren't usually qualified as having a relationship of Base Ability. This also means that in particular cases, an ability's base ability can be different from what it is based on in the Object Editor, given that they have very similar features mechanically.

Also, there are based abilities that aren't predefined in World Editor, the most obvious example being Blink Strike. All Blink Strike abilities are based on Channel, but due to the fact that Blink Strike abilities share very similar characteristics, which are, however, distinct from Channel, Blink Strike is also regarded as a Base Ability.

If necessary, one ability can be recognized as having two or more Base Abilities, as long as all Base Abilities are well represented by certain aspects of the ability. There can be even more flexible cases too, for example Rooftrellen's Overgrowth, whose Base Ability is "Multiple Entangling Roots", because although the ability itself is very different from Entangling Roots, it does consist of multiple casts of Entangling Roots.

It is important to note that all Base Ability pages have a uniform style, defined by the boilerplate Template:BP baseabil. All should implement the boilerplate when creating Base Ability pages.

Base Ability

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