Talk:Vauban/@comment-44340352-20191202145025/@comment-33235220-20200105061942

"his only viable "combo" is photon strike and bastille's vortex"

Well clearly someone hasn't actually done any real testing, as that is his least viable combo. Bastille and Tesla Bank, Bastille/Vortex and an explosive weapon, Bastille and Flechette Orbs, Bastille and Magus Lockdown and others are all more effective than Bastille/Vortex and Photon Strike. Instead of just looking at the descriptions and determining "this is all trash except what I see", actually test something and you'll see that's far from the truth. I main Vauban, and have several copies of Vauban Prime Forma'd so I can test tons of different builds, and there are a half dozen or so viable builds, with Photon Strike being one of the less viable builds due to not scaling well. Flechette Orbs scaless infinitely, Tesla Bank goes as far as you can take it with a good one-shot weapon, Magus Lockdown is a flat 60%, meanwhile Photon Strike has a soft cap that it can't surpass. Almost everything has a use with Vauban's new kit. Overdriver boosts your own damage, your team's damage, and your Flechette Orb's damage, non-augment Tesla Nervos gives some mobile set-and-forget CC while augmented Tesla Nervos do insane damage, Vector Pad can be used to block off hallways so enemies can't get through, with the added benefit of causing them to pile up meaning easy kills with punch through or explosions, pretty much the only useless thing is the tethers, since Magus Lockdown does the same thing while also doing great damage when used with Bastille's armor stripping. Vauban is in a really good place now. Not the best he could be in, but he gained valuable utility and damage while remaining a CC Warframe at its core and retaining his signature abilities but in a way where he could gain more damage potential and still benefit from both of his old abilities.