Warden Feels Like a Better Venator

I play Ventator and recently picked up Warden to add another character into my roster for ranked. Warden just feels like a better tanky gun man.

1. Guns

Warden's bullet spread is way better. The velocity feels bad but you fix that by buying high velocity rounds which upgrades into 2 good items. The ammo count gets fixed with more orange items and Mercurial Magnum. Ven's bullet velocity is amazing but what is the point when you cannot engage at ranges where it actually matters due to your spread undercutting you?

2. Purples

Buying spirit power items boosts all of Wardens abilities while fixing the fire rate. You buy great counter items or build around your abilities. Unless you build around grenades as Ventator you might as well leave purple items to other characters, even if you do, just get recharging rush and maybe rapid recharge.

3. Abilities

Cage gives me silence, and works both offensively by building speed, slowing items, and weighted shots or defensively just as a get back tool. Alchemical Flask! works well with running people down or slowing them down and I have a shield for a bit more tankiness. It just syncs well together.

Venator's abilities do not feel bad, but I find they are strong in more niche cases and very rarely do all 3 sync together.

Corpse Boy running at you with ult, rejuv, and refresher? I kill him once, throw a trap under him, and either disengage or repeat. Trap works under guardian too. Otherwise unless it is around a corner or a veil, nobody is gonna run into it.

Gushot into wall stun into heavy melee is fun but requires your enemy to make a positioning mistake or you are engaging someone who wants to get close. I cannot land gunshot into trap consistently.

Grenades however work great as both an opener, help for the team or just with your other abilities.

4. Ults

I find both ults to be impactful in different situations. However I got a collateral kill with Ira Domini once and I am still chasing that high.

5. Warden's health scaling is so chonky, I can build Glass Cannon on him and not feel the health loss. I do not build it on Venator

I am in brick elo so there are definitely skill issues in play. So what can I do to make Venator more impactful?