Keep in mind that this will likely destroy all loot only advisable in situations where you really don ' t have a chance <| sep |> Well if your trying to enter FUT champs then your team needs to be silver hence the red outlines . As for the background I have no idea <| sep |> 1 . You can ' t really use ' range penalties ' in a comparative discussion of VenomNatural Weapon vs . Elemental Attack . Natural Weapons have a range penalty of infinity beyond melee range the only real downside of Elemental Attack is dice penalties from firing in melee , which is at least and almost certainly more than equaled by being able to fire from beyond melee reach . 2 . I understand the basics of how the Power of the venom is going to trigger , but the cold reality of the small size of damage tracks in Shadowrun means that Elemental Attack or Elemental Aura punches , or especially EngulfElemental Aura Engulfs are going to put nearly any target down before Venom even triggers at the end of the combat turn after the combat turn when the venom first applies . Let ' s use our F 6 spirit as an example Unarmed Venom does 8 NetHits S , AP 0 , and does 6 DV toxin vs . BodyWill at the end of the next combat turn . Versus Mediocre Thug C with 3 in every stat and an Armor Jacket , spirit ' s going to get about 3 net hits for 11 DV , or 1 net hit for 9 DV if they choose to force P damage with Harder Knock , and the thug is going to soak ~ 5 on average . A turn and change later , he soaks DV 6 P with 6 dice and reduces that to 4 . Either the Mediocre Thug takes 6 stun and 4 P , or 8 P , spread out over the course of more than 1 full turn rotation . Comparatively , an Elemental Attack does 12 NetHits P , AP 6 right now . Spirit Guy has 1215 dice depending on AGI for about 3 net hits again , soaked by 9 dice , for about 12 P right away , and an instant KO . The stronger the enemy becomes , the Beast spirit ' s damage decays way faster than the Elemental Attacker becausea poor initial damage with no AP that completely negates secondary damage if it doesn ' t damage , EVEN IF YOU HITb even if you hit , two soak rolls reduces the total damage twice , which means raising the defender ' s average stats decays the damage twice as fast and off a cliff as soon as the defender can soak the UnarmedNatural Weapon attack . Arguing that the venom is going to hit hard because repeated applications of the venom are going to boost its power by 1 per hit is kinda irrelevant , because if someone ' s soak is poor enough to take ANY damage from Unarmed Attacks , they ' re going to get cut down by 24 Elemental Attacks . There ' s just no way to slice it where Venom isn ' t bad at killing things unless , I guess , something was immune to elements but not Physical or poison . but that situational benefit is reversed as soon as something is resistantimmune to toxins . And I get that Beast can deal with weak enemies with powers like Fear and Animal Control , but . so can other spirits . The only real combat benefit I see to Beast is that he works in Low and Dim light note no benefit in total darkness due to a lack of Thermographic vision slightly better than other nonMan spirits , getting 1 more hit on attacks on average . This does not negate split damage types plus split soaks where the second half of the damage is completely negated if the first half is soaked , or the fact that if you are choosing to attack in Dim light to be stealthy , that your target is vastly more likely to survive the initial attack and raise an alarm , or the fact that a flashlight or a lightbulb or the Sun negates this advantage altogether . Like . I am not saying beast spirits are useless they have a few niche advantages for example , they ' re the most likely of all spirit types to be ignored if noticed from sufficient distance to not automatically realize they ' re not an animal , and a F 1 F 2 Beast spirit can control whole gaggles of animals . But aside from those niche tasks ? Just don ' t see it . Even a Force 18 Beast doing 20 Net 18 Power with unarmedvenom isn ' t going to kill anything faster than a F 18 Elemental Attacker , and the Elemental Attacker is going to kill anything short of a Dragon , including milspecced ultratanks that Beast can ' t even damage , before the Beast ' s venom ever kicks in .