Talk:Atlas (Warframe)/@comment-27030702-20151002030236/@comment-98.89.0.58-20151002062106

I just bought him too, here's some answers:

Can you attack a single enemy multiple times? Yes. Against some enemies you'll have to. The first rank of his power was taking 2 hits to kill Butchers...on Mercury...with 8/10 Transient Fortitude. Presumably ranking up the ability will make this several times more powerful because if not...

Does the double damage persist? Yes, sorta. It's double damage the first x hits (not sure how many, I think maybe 3?) and then actually turns to 4x damage. That said, you have less than 2 seconds to connect another punch before you lose the bonus - about a third as long as a normal melee damage mult for a weapon. The multiplier is higher but unless the raw damage far outclasses something like a Dakra Prime (and it might, my Atlas is just now rank 9) then a melee weapon is still going to be better.