Talk:Synapse/@comment-891650-20130928034522/@comment-13117751-20130928093028

In most cases the flux rifle will simply outpace the Synapse in terms of raw damage due to the fact it uses serrated blade whereas this is simply electrical damage.

The only time you'll see the Synapse contest the Flux Rifle at all really is against Corpus enemies (due to the double damage modifier), and at that point you can do some math to figure out when exactly the drop-off in effectiveness is (since the synapse still won't ignore armor).

Your warframe in this comparison doesn't really matter unless it has poweres related to the weapon...Saryn doesn't really have anything bound to ranged weapons so there's really not much to talk about here.

tl;dr:

Flux Rifle > Synapse for general purpose mobbing/killing/boss fights / etc.

Synapse contests Flux against corpus-based enemies, and ONLY corpus based enemies

Synapse < Flux against decently high level corpus enemies