TPS Elemental Showdown - Best To Worst

[FlamesForAll (It's a SIEGE profile picture!)]

Yes, thus includes explosive.

Please list the 5 TPS Elements innghe ordervyou think is most to least deadly, and, as always, detailed reasons and science are welcome!

[ACNAero (Boring Ol' Album Cover)]

1. Explosive. Because Flakker. Can’t find it the thread about the Flakker. But Flakker Flakks everything and kills all! I love your Flak… on my Flak. Your lovely Flak… Flak!

Past that, I leave you with a damage formula thread:

[Guide] Basic Gun Damage Formula

Back in BL2, I made a little thread about how Gun Damage can be calculated, with the intent that the formula I gave could be used for any character. There are a few references to it in the TPS info threads so far, because there hasn’t been one for TPS yet. That changes today. This thread will follow a generally “top-down” format, where we’ll begin with a condensed equation that looks really simple, but each term will have a number of calculations involved. I find the math is easier to d…

P.S. Let’s see if you know the song reference in that bit above.

[Adabiviak (Guajiro Pandoreño)]

Without math (pure opinion here, so ask again in a week, and this will probably change)
1: Cryo (decent DoT time + chance to freeze = immobilized enemy with DoT and nerfed against other damage types)
2: Explosive (damn the shields!)
3: Shock (not weak to anything, but low DoT time)
4: Corrosive (matched to health, DoT is brutal)
5: Fire (matched to health, DoT is pretty good)

[Sljm (Really, really, ridiculously good-looking)]

1. Explosive if Frozen vs. Not Shield

• Shock vs. Shield (UVHM)
• Explosive if Frozen vs. Shield
• Fire/Corrosive vs. respective health type
• Explosive/Cryo/Shock vs. Not Shield and Non-Elemental vs. Not Armor

Overall, Explosive has the broadest effectiveness and is immensely potent when used with Cryo (nades?). Except where certain Vault Hunters excel at specific elements (Shock Athena, Non-Elemental Nisha), and Shielded bosses, it’s the best.

[Cowthulhu46]

1: cryo
2: explosive
3: electric
4: corrosive
5: fire

this is not counting stuff like maelstrom.

[kritchie2023]

1. Explosive: Because TORGUE!
2. Shock: Storm front and Thunderfire.
3. Cryo: Certainly great against mobs, but sucks when it has little to no effect on bosses.
4. Fire: Fun to use in an atmosphere with an Oxidizer, still OK even in no atmosphere.
5. Corrosive: Uuuuuh, what armored enemies outside the DLC? Jet fighters? Yeah, I run right past those because they don’t actually stick around long enough to fight.

[MidnightNova ([1/6 || Orb Terrax])]

1. Shock: Gaige made me learn that electrocuting stuff is fun.
2. Fire: What’s not to like about setting people alight?
3. Cryo: Has its uses, but jsut as slag I only use it when absolutely nescecary
4. Explosive: not really a fan of it, outside some Torgue weapons.
5. Never use it, hell, TPS hardly has a use for this. Which is a shame since I like Marek’s Mouth.