Both are pretty trash, but Symbiote is the better of the two. He's actually got some decent damage on the special 2. Still, I wouldn't upgrade either of them unless you're at a level where you can afford a cheeky rank up.
Symbiote by a mile, after using a r4 variant gem on mine awhile ago I was surprised how hard he hit so I did a test on the beta server and took him to r5 and threw everything into offensive masteries, full recoil and all that and just 1 pt in willpower so I wouldn’t die during the fight lol Full synergy team and Put on full boosts, basically wanted to see how hard I could get the sp2 to hit. This is also without the new red goblin synergy too which I think would really juice this up even more but before that synergy existed this is about as hard as he could possibly hit.
It was a combination of me asking that guy who thinks HT is a disappointment how hard his Mom dropped him as a child, the Will-O-Wisp post, and jokingly saying "Domino's a piece of sh*t".
Definitely avoid taking EITHER of them up to max as a 5*. Symbiote is definitely worth maybe a R3 or if you have an early variant rank-up Cosmic gem, maybe R4, but neither, as they currently stand, are worth maxing out as 5*s.
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Put on full boosts, basically wanted to see how hard I could get the sp2 to hit.
This is also without the new red goblin synergy too which I think would really juice this up even more but before that synergy existed this is about as hard as he could possibly hit.
Hopefully...