Talk:Boar Prime/@comment-1765404-20160629205410/@comment-25254386-20160809221306

Viral does reduce enemy health by half for a bit, yes, but the actual damage still gets intercepted by the Shield. So you've gotta get around the Shield before you can kill a Corpus enemy with Viral, and Viral does no bonus damage to Shielding and Radiation is only 75% effective against the most common type of Shielding, so depending on enemy level you may actually be there for a while.

Toxin also does +50% damage to health like Viral, but unlike Viral you can damage the enemy immediately without needing to worry about Shielding and the Gas proc is AoE so you can effect more than one enemy at a time. Magnetic also deals +75% more damage to both types of shielding so you can really strip it and get down to health faster.

I'm curious to know which is more effective against a Corpus Crewman though, Viral+Rad or Gas+Mag? Im afk at the moment so I can't test them, personally though I think Gas+Mag would be faster. I'm too lazy to do all the math to find out.