Thread:Antonio valihora/@comment-5035900-20190427080956/@comment-31961081-20190502050408

it is a bit hard to accept that he was able to beat him seeing as how Alex has had over 5 years with the mercer virus learning how to control it and becoming much more powerful then he was in Prototype 1, while Heller only just got the virus a few days prior and so should logically be much weaker.

but my main theory is that Alex made a fatal mistake when he first gave Heller the virus, just like in real life Viruses affect people in different ways even if those people have the same sickenss they have different symptons, because that person's genetics affect the virus in another way.

When Alex gave Heller the virus he must have given him an altered strain of it that he didn't realize, which would also explain why Heller functions in different ways then Alex throughout the course of Prototype 2, he seems to have identical abilites but the way his abilites adapt and evolve differ from Alex's, in Prototype 1 it shows throughout the game to be making several timeskips over the course of several weeks, but in Prototype 2 the whole thing is only happening in a matter of days showing that Heller's virus is evolving at a much faster rate then Alex's.

so by the time of the final fight even after consuming the 8 evolved, Heller's virus had firmly overtaken Alex's own in terms of evolution.