Talk:Saryn (Warframe)/@comment-99.46.222.30-20140122024953/@comment-76.110.132.55-20140127231743

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6 spores is 150 energy. For 900 damage. Over 15 seconds.

Now let's forget for a second that Saryn has a skill that deals 1500 damage over 4 seconds for 100 energy.

Excalibur can use Slash Dash twice, and deal 1000 damage to whoever he passes for 50 energy, in about 1 second per cast. Rhino does pretty much the same, but 1300 damage, and he knocks any survivors down.

Ember's Fireball, countung DoT, deals 1k damage per 25 energy cast. That DoT takes 4 seconds.

Mag's pull deals 300 damage per cast, and has a decent CC effect. Mag can cast roughly twice per second.

Ash's Shuriken does 500x2, which may target a single enemy for 1000, for 25 energy. Ash can cast about as fast as Pull.

I could go on much further, but I won't.

Venom. Is. Useless. It has always been painfully useless. This is not up for discussion. DO NOT USE VENOM.