Talk:Frost (Warframe)/@comment-93.203.32.130-20130605204313/@comment-4555176-20130606182457

Unless you're talking about shields only, banshee isn't a tank like frost simply due to her lack of armor. Frost is invaluable for grineer/corpus defenses, as his snow globe can hold off fire from ever touching the crypod unless they decide to walk inside of it, in which case they suffer severe slow effects.

On the other hand Banshee has great support supporting skills. Sonic boom only does 40 dmg max, but with reach it has a crazy range and for a 25 energy skill, a 16-18m cone aoe that always knocks down (with reach for range, it maxes at 12m normally) and sonar which highlights a glowing weakspot on enemiesin a wide aoe, allowing allies to do 500% dmg if they hit that spot (also affected by focus making it more dangerous), Banshee can help make your teammates and yourself more powerful. Soundquake has a long range but is affected by armor, meaning that while it will stagger enemies for the full duration, you shouldn't expect it to do a whole lot to enemies in higher defense waves.