Lasher NOT Recommended

[Madcow]

I want to make sure I'm reading your stats correctly, because a few things don't make sense to me:

code:--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Gun ROF Clip 5m 20m dmg/clip dmg/5sec sustained fire (sec) fastest kill (sec)
JH 2.3 16 48/64 12/16 1792 1288 6.96 0.97
LS 3.6 20 21/8 18/8 580 522 5.56 2.39
MG 7.6 100 10/8 9/8 1800 684 13.16 1.83--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

It appears that the Jackhammer at near point blank does 48 health damage per shot, and fires 2.3 shots per second. It then states that the fastest kill is .97 seconds. Based on the stats it would appear to me that it would take 3 shots to actually get a kill, and that it would take over a second to fire 3 shots (1.3 secs?). Maybe wearing away your armor has something to do with it, but I'm not sure where 'fastest kill' comes from as we don't know what armor we're talking about.
From point blank range the Lasher does 21 health damage with a faster rate of fire (3.6 per second). Therefore it would take 5 Lasher shots, assuming direct hits, to take down a soft target. Based on the ROF you list, that should be 1.39 seconds. In other words, whoever fires first wins.

Once you move out to 20m, the story changes. Suddenly it appears to be 9 JH shots to take out a target (3.9 seconds) and 6 Lasher shots (again making a direct hit assumption that would be a near impossibility with the Lasher) which would take 1.67 seconds.

I don't even want to get into the MCG numbers as it assumes hits for each bullet which is just as impossible as hitting with each orb from 20m, but the MCG doesn't have the benefit of the lash.

Please let me know where my numbers are wrong, it's very possible I'm reading the posted numbers incorrectly because it's not completely clear. As it stands for me, it appears that the Lasher is just barely less powerful than the JH at close range and absolutely owns it further out. Not sure why that's worth complaining about.