Talk:Viability Ranking/@comment-39210051-20191001054747/@comment-39230426-20191001132859

Yes, Soul Hugger is indeed worse than a monster with multiple Pierce skills and SC Pierce at R3.

Worse than a monster with access to Regen and Botanophobic Shield.

Worse than a monster with actual tortures like Poison, Bleed, and Nanovirus.

Face it, all Soul Hugger has to increase his damage output is Spirit Hater. He's a Tanky Self-Sustaining Attacker like Zizania, but Zizania does that job better because it doesn't rely 100% on dealing damage and setting up to get it's HP back up. Plus it acts as a better Attacker, period, than Soul Hugger because it's got Pierce, torture effects (Nanovirus being one of the best in the game due to its secondary effect), a better Strength stat (you really gonna defend Soul Hugger's measley 3,509 Strength lmao?), and access to Evasion to boot.

tl:dr, no they are not on equal footing here lol. They are pretty far apart. Soul Hugger really is not special outside of big HP and Spirit Hater. He is getting a good drop once we get to him I'd imagine.