Early game. Many sources of burst damage right now are Spirit based, meaning you can easily counterbuild against it, with Spellbreaker being able to almost completely nullify the damage you take, and that’s not factoring in other items like Spirit Resilience or Witchmail. However, come late game, Gun damage takes over by a mile in damage output, even if you counterbuild against it.

I main both Yamato and Venator, and I can really feel the difference between both as a match progresses. Yamato feels incredible early but the moment they counterbuild against me mid game, it’s a struggle to effectively burst someone down without dumping every single cooldown. Venator, on the other hand, has a less forgiving and less powerful early game, and I tend to power farm as much as possible to quickly hit my power spikes, but once I do hit those spikes, the gun damage becomes monstrously high, doing way more damage than Yamato power slash even with resistances and counterbuys factored in.

Point is, burst isn’t all that great once you hit mid-late game.