deadly strike better than vicious strike?

[vuurbal1]

my friend tested to see if vicious strike was better than deadly strike and it seems that vicious strike is worse than deadly.
is this meant to be this way?

[It's An Otter]

It depends on the tower and how they scale. Some scale better with deadly and some better with vicious. On some towers you want both.

To answer your question directly, yes, it's intended.

[TigerHawkins]

vicious adds directly to the base range of the tower (like the ascension talent gambits, or the defense range god stat). Deadly strikes is a %based increaser after that is applied, so is the range servo. and range pylon and diffusion shards are multiplicative off of those. towers that don't have a gambit talent in ascension that use range (boost aura and frostbite tower are great examples. Vicious strikes will actually max out the frostbite's range by itself) while other towers would be better off with deadly strikes.