Wit and Savage Replies

Wit and wrath my favorite pair, I use them both the same and I don’t care.
A young man answered reffed to me, ok boomer!
My reply simply, as you are now so once was I.
Savage. A woman insultingly asked if I had my crayons or playdoh handy.
My reply, I’ll play cats cradle with your intestines.
We all share a ying and yang mentality, and balancing them is key. I never draw first blood but when I’m attacked first then it’s a blood bath

The difference is a matter of cruelty. To savage something or someone is to tear them apart as brutally as possible. And it’s not necessarily clever as wit invariably is.
Wit, on the other hand, needn’t always diminish anything or anyone. It’s a matter of mental quickness and inventiveness.
Take for example, Oscar Wilde’s semi-apocryphal last words, which were are a compression of him mentioning having a “battle” with the tacky wallpaper in his bedroom a few days before he died:
“Either that wallpaper goes or I do.”
Now granted, wit often involves taking someone/thing down a peg. But this can include anything from gentle teasing to a big gotcha. If it goes past that into ripping someone or even a thing without feelings to bruise (think institutions), then it’s called a savage wit.
So the two can be combined and often are, but they are very distinct and separate entities.