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In addition to her ridiculous power, let’s not pretend the “oooh let’s see how high I can get the spore dmg” mini game is very fun and satisfying.

I wish every Warframe was so cohesive. Could you talk about Nekros eventually? He's a one-trick pony that doesn't do anything particularly well besides farming. Others have easier ways to tank and deal damage. His gimmick is his shadows but not only are they inconsistent with no real way to control them, his terrify and soul punch go completely against it as they force enemies further away, spreading out your minions and reducing your DPS further.

I bet Saryn is nice and here you are insulting her.

Small correction: alot of people realized early in the rework that Saryn now was endgame king of endurance missions, however: for it to work, you needed a stable way to build and maintain Spore stacks. However before like 1h into a Survival mission, Spore's killed enemies too fast to gain stacks leaving you energy starved while being swarmed by high damage. This also made her kit... Very bad for low level missions, as you would spend most of your energy bar to try and spread Spores and then Miasma but both abilities killed enemies so fast in combo you couldn't maintain spores. It was an awkward time :P

Since you've talked about why lots of frames are good I think it would be interesting to see a video about why tentacle daddy hydroid is a complete failure

I remember picking up Saryn after an early rework and seeing people complain that miasma wasn't the focus anymore. Spores are so fun; watching numbers pop up and spread is really satisfying

People have no idea how busted Excal was back in the day, or how broken Frost was. or heck how you were immortal with a good trinity player. or how Ember Made people rage quit because they never had a chance to kill anything specially in Survival missions where you could sit as ember and not have to move for 40mins straight, The good ol days.

Ballas may have been thinking with his balls when he made saryn, but that may also have been the best thing he did.

Ah yes war crimes the frame.

Saryn has always been good and usable for most of the content that existed at the time of each iteration. From early days where infested Xini was the most popular farm, and as you stated the corrupted mods for negative duration build really assisted in amping up her Miasma damage, increasing the ticks it did. When her spores were changed it became such a great AOE damage dealer that was better than what Miasma ever was, but people didn't really understand how the spores worked. She was so good for oldschool T4 Defense as now her spore scaled off her weapons, and I personally would use a gas Lanka build. Start one target with a Spore and then shoot that target and watch how the spore spread to all enemies and those enemies in the map take that initial damage too from my gas procced Lanka. You'd see enemies get map cleared now from this new gas weapon + spore combo that had much better scaling than Miasma. I found it strange with how strong she was DE decided to rework spores again, but I can see why. Making it much easier and simpler to use to aoe wipe, but it needing to build up a bit instead of a not well known mechanic setup to map wipe. I think Saryn is one of the few Warframes that have been consistently good in her whole existence. I like to consider Warframes up to about Valkyr are pretty much the OG set of Warframes, and she's been treated the best throughout her life. The rest have had very weird ups and downs and treatment by DE.

Saryn is a cornerstone of warframe. Its bassicly the frame that makes new players realize how much damage is possible if you know the game well. "Oh, you like excalibur huh? Well do I have a video to show you"

Been loving this series, that you do a full retrospective on each Warframe's meta and how it's changed over the years and then cover their current meta is a real refreshing coverage of the game.

There was one part of Saryn 2.0 that people don't often speak of due to how difficult it was to grasp its concept and application:

God. Taking through a blast from the past. I played saryn since her day of release, pre prime.

This series is great, good work sir. I know revenant is a relatively newer warframe and doesn't have quite the same history as some of these, but it could be fun to talk about how a warframe that got relegated to ballerina meme spin to win builds, ended up being an immortal warframe, with crazy dps set ups and the go to archon hunter. I always thought it was weird people didn't realize how good he was when he came out lol

Saryn is the reason I'm still playing Warframe. I tried to get into it for a while but had some issues. My friend kept saying "no don't use plat just grind for everything" but it wasn't fun. So, I bought her (and Nyx) and... I fell in love with the game. It was fun, and I'm now hundreds of hours in because of my toxic relationship with her.

DE making Helminth subsume: 'What ability should Saryn give?'

As the Founder who named her I'm more then happy to always see videos about Saryn.

I love how you go in details over past meta. I’ve been playing before mele2.0 but I take big breaks. Last time I played was when endless void ended and new relic system was added. So it’s great to see all the meta and catch up