Talk:Damage/Corrosive Damage/@comment-37.239.166.24-20190430112300/@comment-33490977-20190430142308

First of all, status damage doesn't benefit you in the way that status procs do. For example, a Soma Prime with a Corrosive Build against Heavy Gunners (Hunters Munition excluded) will most likely always do worse than any Corrosive or Viral build on the Supra Vandal against said enemies. That is because it has natural higher damage against armored enemies and can proc status way more often.

Yes, Viral does not stack, but on the other side you will have the full effect with the very first status proc of it (for a few seconds if no other proc happened). Corrosive's upside is that it can be stacked, and the downside is that it needs to be stacked.

Also: Corrosive Builds will most likely always lose to Viral builds if you fight Corpus Units. In some cases it will even weaken your damage output compared to Viral. So it is also up to what enemy you are against.

"but when useing one shot kill wepon "bows and shotguns" the viral is better" NO! Just no! This also fully depends on your Shotgun and the enemies you face. If you can't reach 100% Status before Multishot on a Shotgun, then you are better of with damage and crit in the first place, but also never be able to say "viral is better". For example, my Corrosive build on my Strun Wraith is way stronger against some Grineer than my Viral build on the Tigris Prime. Also, when your Shotgun fires 15 pellets per Shot and each time you proc Viral 10 times per enemy, it won't have any meaningful effect besides the first proc. Corrosive on the other side can shred the enemy armor very fast with just one shot and could kill the enemy faster in some cases (Corpus again, never go Corrosive against them).