what goes with poison bullets?

[Speaty]

as passive and 2nd bullets,
what suites for poison bullets?
also, why I need to poison mobs, if I can kill 'em fast?

just asking: what's the benefits with poison bullets?

[Willie The Automaton]

just got through playing with them. Fear causes poison to not tick down with a certain powder. You can also create a gas cloud bigger than your screen with another bullet...All in all, there isn't really a great reason to use them much since there are other options that just do better damage.

[Orange]

Poison is intended to synergize with fear effects as there's a lot of powders you can research that will compliment each other. DoT timer freezing when feared, fears lasting longer, etc.

The end build will result in enemies dying to poison while not able to hit you back because of the fear effect you're inflicting on them.

[HunterSilver]

Freeze bullets lock an enemy up while you build up stacks. Stun and Stasis bullets might too but I never bothered to test them.

Fear is one of the weaker combos with Poison, finishers are much better once you've got them. The finisher that deals damage based on your poison stacks will likely be the highest damage bullet you have in the game.

Against smaller enemies there's no reason to use poison. Cold, Fire, and Force bullets tend to be the best against anything you can kill in a single combo. You only bring out poison when you need something big to die.

[Sepherix]

The benefit is .. uh. it does normal damage every tick per 5-7 stacks. So every few seconds you do what you should have been doing with an actual ammo in a single hit. Its bad!

It 'helps' somewhat against the more mobile enemies but they're too far and few between to matter, they're boss fights. You can get your 20 stacks rapidly with the later powders :| . Its rather 'fine' to keep up without an smg.

As for whatever you can pair it with. Not fear as it gets the enemy out of range and the stack duration hardly matters outside of smg unless you lower it yourself. Anything to sit them still. or anything to help against crowds because you're not surviving a swarm.