I'm joking, of course, they're both equally terrible, poorly thought out and designed, but there is something so magical about 2021 that happened at Warframe to release 2 of the worst warframes in the game back to back, Yareli in update 30 and Caliban in update 31 the new War.
but I wanted to grab your attention to Caliban because Yareli is more famous and known as the worst.
First of all, Caliban was pretty much dead on arrival, the insanely frustrating farm that's tied to the new veil proxima, and Narmer bounties, plus he was tied to one of the most anticipated story quests, made everyone pretty much forget he exists.
but that's not all, dear reader, Caliban is Worse than Yareli not only because he has useless abilities, it's clear he had 0 effort put in making him.
I don't mind having weak Warframes, i mean after all, Warframes aren't made by the same group of developers every single time...or are they?
let's briefly discuss his abilities:
Passive: Adaptation free trial edition, capped at only 50% (which is ok fine, it's a passive), doesn't trigger on damage over time status effects, doesn't even act like how Sentients actually adapt!
and why is it shared among players? is Caliban a support?
Razor Gyre: If you google forum threads about Razor gyre, chances are you're going to find one of mine, begging DE to fix it's bugs, and they STILL haven't fixed it completely.
deals immense amounts of pure ZERO damage, has a synergy with sentient wrath THAT LITERALLY DOESN'T WORK, can't pick up orbs nor loot, and orbs and loot STILL BLOCK SOME OF THE DAMAGE despite DE saying they fixed that bug in the patch notes, expends insane amount of energy for no good outcome, it's his worst ability.
Sentient Wrath: Tied to one of the worst crowd control effects ever created in this decade (Lifted status)
Lethal progeny: You know, for a caster Warframe that has 150 energy at max, they sure thought it's a good idea to have to spend 150 energy to get all three sentients, that lasts for very poor duration, do very poor damage, and can easily die. Logic 9000
Fusion strike: You thought i was going to say it's his best ability right? I guess any ability that has token armor strips is automatically labeled the best, sadly Fusion strike is the WORST armor strips in the game.
first of all you're going to cast a lot of it and it's his fourth ability, so you'll keep spending 100 energy all the time, on top of 150 energy of his third ability, with a frame that has only 150 energy, again, Logic 9000
And all that when Xaku can strip armor and shields in an area of effect and it lasts indefinitely. and Nyx strips armor and shields in her second ability, and only needs extra 25% strength.
Caliban is the Worst Warframe in the game.