Talk:Vauban/@comment-25330002-20180419225739/@comment-25330002-20180512132509

His 1 would be useful if it had a high status chance, which it doesn't have. It's just a "lol Imma deal some damage" ability that rarely stuns a target.

Take Banshee for armour stripping. She can remove it in a larger area with higher CC, requires much less strength (which makes up for the augment slot), it lasts twice as long and only costs half the energy. You could argue that Vauban offers armour stripping together with a radiation proc, but if you build for Shred you waste a lot of potential for Concuss because the second one requires no strength. And it still requires 50 base energy which is a lot for a 6m+4sec ability, while Sonic Fracture sits at 15m+8sec.

If you build him with balanced stats like you can do with other frames, his abilities are too weak. So you have to specialise, which is not what I call a "versatile Warframe".