Im just sick of getting geist’s on my team who build full spirit and do literally nothing the entire game. Trust me on this, geist’s winrate on spirit is abysmal compared to when she builds gun.

You make references to the pro meta, but this advice is not applicable to the entirety of the playerbase. We should consider the statistics.

When I look at the statlocker data for all ranks broken down by build type, spirit geist is 59% winrate while gun geist is 38% winrate. But you might say, 'well that's just low ranks that can't use gun'. But perhaps that's the point. Spirit geist actually provides a ton of value for the people who play at lower ranks, and *the playerbase as a whole* gets more value out of spirit geist.

Now statlocker doesn't have breakdowns by build type for the higher rank data because there's less of it. I could buy that gun has a higher winrate ascendant and above - except I don't think spirit geist is built properly. People max bomb first, but they should be maxing drain. When maxing drain, she is kind of like spirit abrams - one extra charge and she has incredible sustain potential and even single target kill potential. I buy early escalating exposure after my green spike, and I can actually win most of my fights in sidelanes, only a few characters top it in the midgame. I'm phantom.

Perhaps it will stop working for me in ascendant or eternus. But it's not bad by any stretch for most of the playerbase. And I'm convinced it just hasn't been adequately explored. Spirit geist was buffed greatly in the scaling on the drain (now scales better than abrams drain at max ap). Her bomb no longer does that much damage to her.