After seeing so many people complain about thorn being too op and needing a nerf(even though it doesn't need one)I've decided to compile a list of weapons that could outclass thorn in a PvP battle.These are personal experience and weapon stat based.
These are in no particular order
1.Red Death
This exotic pulse rifle has great range,impact and rate of fire.It can kill guardians in [b]two[/b] bursts,which would easily outclass thorn.It will heal you after kills,so it negates the DoT.Easily one of the best PvP weapons in the game
2.MIDA Multi Tool
Underestimated by most of Destiny's community,this beast can allow you to strafe easily and land crits.It can fire quicker than most other scout rifles,and with it doing about 55 crit dmg per hit,it can take down someone's health pretty quickly.If you have the aim,this thing will wreck in the right hands.
3.Spare Change.25
Carbon copy of red death.Except frees up an exotic slot.Kills in two bursts,and has great range and stability for a pulse rifle
4.Vex Mythoclast
While at medium to long range this gun cannot perform well,at close it's an absolute beast.Its high impact of a fusion rifle and it's fire rate proves it to hit hard.Since most of Destiny's maps are close range(example:Cauldron,Pantheon,Anomaly) it tends to have an easy time on most maps.Run with it and you will most likely win all of your 1v1s in crucible
5.Almost all Osiris exclusive primaries
These weapons are awarded to people who go undefeated in trials,and they're definitely worth it.While also being stellar PvE weapons,they have proved themselves in PvP.The jewel of Osiris has better stats than thorn(other than rate of fire)and can defeat it at close to mid range.The messenger,from what I've heard,behaves similarly to red death.Meaning that it can easily kill you in 2-3 bursts and it can fire quickly.The scholar is just another hard hitting low recoil scout rifle,which agains like the other two can outclass thorn.They were built for PvP.
Hopefully some people realize that there is more than one way to skin a cat,or that you can beat thorn without thorn
Edit:Necrochasm is apparently good too.I didn't say it.Some dude in the comments did
Edit #2:Cause the playas gonna play play play.H8rs gonna h8 h8 h8.Imma shake it off,shake it off.
Edit #3We are at 1000 replies.Let this thread die
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If the thorn user is just the absolute worst (takes more than three shots to kill someone due to missing/not getting easy two shot crit kills) then yes these weapons are viable but if the user has used thorn for longer than three seconds they easily outclass most of these by shooting twice and ducking. Red death's two burst kill is inconsistent since you need to land all headshots. Healing helps against dot but if the user two shot hides they win. I just don't like mida because it feels like the bullets do nothing, even on all crits and if you aren't running radiant dance machines you aren't really using mida. Vex will sometimes charge like a fusion rifle because Bungie still can't fix problems that their patches cause. So it's automatically striked from the list. Vision is alright I don't particularly enjoy it in crucible as scout rifles typically don't have a place in all these short range encounters although I can see its use in long range trials maps. The jewel really isn't great unless you are using icarus to its full extent. It's stats are pretty much fatebringer, which isn't a great pvp handcannon archetype for legendaries. The scholar is the king of scout rifles and the messenger is a better (more consistent) two shot kill than red death from watching my friend play with it. Those are your best bets if you aren't a playstation user. Hawkmoon is the best exotic primary by far once you get a hang of the fire rate and recoil pattern. It's effective range is near infinite with hardly any damage drop-off. If you're lucky you can quickly two shot a Thorn before they fire their second shot, and each shot may as well have high cal rounds as it makes the victim flail their arms like they just don't care. If you're a real pro you can see a hallway full of enemies and let aim assist take the wheel as it just delivers free 2-3 shot kills while you spray 13 rounds of pure rng death. The only downside is that sometimes hawkmoon is so amazing that you'll fire shots directly into someone's chest and it does so much damage all at once that the game doesn't even register despite knowing you hit them.