Talk:Corrupted Heavy Gunner/@comment-169.231.71.27-20151130023119/@comment-91.158.151.57-20160219180455

Well, off the top of my head, Boar Prime (status)/Kohm (status or damage)/Lanka (damage)/Tonkor (damage)/TVaykor Hek (damage) are the frontrunners. It's worth remembering though, this kind of a test setup doesn't present the reality you face in the Void. In practice, you face mixed groups of multiple opponents. Corrosive is a great generic type (and works superbly here) but in high level Void, you'll also need to kill Corrupted Bombards and the only good thing about Corrosive there is armor shredding (favoring status weapons, Boar P and Torid especially). Also, you fight masses, which favors AOE weapons like Tonkor, Torid, Synoid Simulor and to lesser extent, anything with punchthrough.

Also, fighting single opponents skews the results of things that trigger in combat. Argon Scope & Bladed Rounds both benefit of fighting but are far less effective in a test against a single target. Same applies to spool-up weapons (most critically Kohm, and perhaps Soma Prime). My own preferred test is to fight 5 level 100 Corrupted Bombards with a weapon built for generalist/Ferrite enemies. This speaks volumes of how they perform in the worst case scenario.

That said, to answer your question. I'll use a test where I spawn a single lvl 100 Corrupted Heavy Gunner, use Vauban to Bastille it and aim it optimally for the weapon in question. Shotguns mostly aim for the center of mass to maximize hits while crit weapons and snipers in particular aim for the head. With Lanka I'll spawn an additional Corrupted Ancient to activate Bladed Rounds. Results:

- Boar Prime generalist status build did the job in about 5 seconds (one clip, takes 2.4 more to load)

- General Kohm build took 4 seconds including spool-up

- Lanka with full scope, no combo, Bladed Rounds active one-shot it without redcrit. So about .9 second (.8 to charge, .1 to reach target).

- DPS Tonkor with Primed Fast Hands two-shot it so about 1 second. Note that it's really close if it's enough or not tho, and Tonkor has the chance of not critting or not launching two grenades which changes things significantly.

- DPS Vaykor Hek 3-shot it so about 1 second.

So, Lanka is the fastest and does more than enough damage for the job but Vaykor Hek and Tonkor get it done in more or less exactly 1 second too (thanks to Corrosive damage ignoring 75% of target armor). Vaykor Hek in particular is hitscan and has a rate of fire of 3 and takes 3 shots to kill.

The results would be substantially different vs. a Corrupted Bombard or a group of enemies, of course. Lanka in particular would fare much worse vs. groups while weapons like Tonkor, Torid and Synoid Simulor would be better. And vs. Bombards with generalist setups, status weapons like Boar Prime, Kohm and Torid would benefit the most.