Talk:Saryn/@comment-134.3.106.238-20161203231409

Melee Saryn is so shitty.

The severely gimped spread range on kill (instead of non-lethal damage) ruins the whole concept. If this mechanic wasn't there, you could easily run Saryn with 160 range (Cunning Drift + Stretch) and it would be fine.

The next oddity: Running a Toxin-only Karyst with Toxic Lash seems bugged. I'd say a good 80% of hits on a spored enemy don't work. What should happen: Toxic Lash gives a guaranteed proc out of all possible procs on your weapon. Karyst only has Toxin so you should get a guaranteed Toxin proc. With Toxic Lash active, your hit should also guarantee a popped spore. A popped spore on a Toxin-proced enemy is supposed to spread Toxin.

But it doesn't. I feel like there's a bug or some race condition where should be none but almost no hits with Toxic Lash active spread Toxin around.

Combine that with the super shitty spread range on killed enemies (and the way it is pretty much every mob is a 1shot) means you neither get a meaningful area of affected enemies, nor do they get the Toxin DoT.

The only way I could make her work is with a full-retard max range/strength build, no survivability apart from Regen Molt, put spores on molt and slam attack it to spread for full 250 range. Easy 20 wave Hydron, super shitty to play.