Talk:Synapse/@comment-891650-20130928034522/@comment-129.116.44.165-20130928230817

It's like I said earlier, the Synapse's effective base damage is higher under a crit build, to the point where you have to essentially measure how much vital sense weighs versus, say, another element added on the flux.

Mathematically, since vital sense is 180% critical damage, we're assuming you have an effective critical damage of 360%. So your 'raw' damage is about 450.

Now right off the back it looks like this just stomps on the flux rifle, but then that's why I said you have to consider what enemy you're even shooting at. Against infested's resistance to electricity and the flux rifle's bonuses, the Flux rifle still wins there. Against medium+ armor grineer the sharp damage reduction due to both armor and natural grineer resistance to electricity also cut down on your damage. To reiterate, the only time the synapse is the very obvious clear-cut winner is against corpus.

Also, factoring in volt's electric shield technically isn't even fair, since the flux rifle gets the same bonuses from shooting through it.