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Author: Theharbo

Mar 1st 2017 at 6:01:23 AM

Are you saying I shouldn't add example of gatling guns despite them fitting the trope?

EvolvingWeapon has, as its laconic: "Weapons get stronger with use.", and the description goes into painstaking detail about how this is over a longer duration for multiple battles.
EvolvingAttack is a videogame only trope with no laconic and an extremely vague description which leads to it being a catch-all for 'this ability changes based on external factors'. I'd almost say it's RepairShop worthy

For something employing 'SpinningUp', they can't even be used (well) before being worked up into a state, and the spinning up is a requirement on the trope-user's part. No matter how many times you use Symmetra's Photon Projector, it will never start out dealing its maximum damage. No matter how many times you start a game of CommandAndConquerGenerals, you'll never start out with more than a headquarters and a worker.

An EvolvingWeapon on the other hand, will eventually get to a state where it is baseline more powerful than it was originally. It comes close in the "temporary" part of EvolvingWeapon, but even that makes it clear that this StatusBuff'd state is dependant on an external factor, and may not last the entire combat.