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* You still win any direct, focused engagement: - Your weapons massively out-damage 10 HP/sec regen. - Anything in your crosshairs doesn’t live long enough to enjoy regeneration.
* The swarm gets: - Much better endurance on lightly contested fronts. - The ability to recover from partial defeats if you don’t atomize and move on aggressively. - More time for: - Devour, - Combining, - Mutating around your current patterns.

So:

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It pushes the battle even more into:
* You must finish what you start,
* You must keep pressure where it matters,
* You can’t rely on “they’ll stay weak from last time”.

If you want, we can next:
* Buff your side with something like area denial fields or “no-regen zones”,
* Or give the swarm faster or exponential regen under certain conditions (like when combined or while devouring) and see if that finally starts outpacing even your crazy DPS.