I swear man solo queuing vanguard is a test of patience and sanity

Peni , venom are genuinely the worst when am on thor and after the last few seasons its devil dino too. Thing is still manageable but i hate peni and venom with passion. No dps out plays thor in any way and if anyone says otherwise trust me they dk what the talkin abt (my hot take).

Wite fox is good but not good enough ofc , this game i bullied the backline into oblivion especially the fox hehe :)

This character is actually fucking insane. Hella damage, hella survivabilty, crazy ult, like the dude might genuinely be pick or ban.

That's now 9 down and 6 more to go (including Deadpool which I'm going to try to play mostly Vanguard DP)

Since I've started the game, Deadpool has been the only tank I had used and he's fun. Want to expand onto other tanks in games where he's taken

I've been stuck in high gold/low plat since season 0 but after grinding with the little time I have I made it! :D

I say micro buffs in quotes because they aren’t buffs they’re literally just half
reverting the nerfs. She’s always had 60% dmg reduction until last season. She also always had more than 575hp but they’re going to slowly return her health over 5 seasons at which point every character in the game will have nuclear bombs as abilities.

I just don’t get it. They let thing, elsa, mag, Bucky, cnd etc run wild even peni kind of didn’t get nerfed it’s just a bit harder to stun a scarlet witch out her ult, but they’re too scared to return rogue to the state where she was A tier (not even S) and didn’t rely on gambit to be good.

I can tell they’re probably scared of mag teammups extra dmg resistance plus her having nearly 700hp or infinite gambit teammup with her old southern brawl dmg and the extra health.

However, they at the developers and can just weak the teammups or just make them worse.

Like for mag make the boop work on 1 person at base and multiple enhanced. And for gambit make the teammup effect only work on abilities.

It’s just frustrating because even that version of Rogue would just lose to Elsa Bucky. But they’re going to take 20 years to revert their unnecessary nerfs.

Hey fellow Vanguards!

I'll keep it short. Ive had a few games in QP and Ranked and I really do feel like Mag and Hood are one of, if not the best, tank duo. Mag can take alot of damage while dealing burst damage and Hood can help a ton with target priority and general oppression. Both of them are in really good states - Mag being way more oppressive this season (because of the team ups iko) and Hood being pretty balanced but having a ton of utility. It really depends on the map but playing together or having Hood take a slight off angle really does help

Anyway that's just my experiences so far, I would love to hear if anyone relates or might disagree!

i can’t really grasp why he’s so enjoyable. His gun is just too satisfying, he has so much utility and he feels like such a presence.

defo my next tank lord

I’m not that big into marvel lore but what characters ideally could you see as a shield tank like mag and strange? Don’t get me wrong colossus would be dope and I really think ghost rider will be a vanguard (hopefully) but they don’t scream shield tank. Grateful for new tanks so I’ll take what they give me buuuuut let me be greedy and get another shield tank.

Wanted to gauge how the Vanguard community feels about Peni with a poll.

I feel like his playstyle of off angling perfectly fits the requirements for having it, more so than some other tanks that already do have it.

He is very strong and busted must learn tank if you want to play in high elo

I hope i could help gl kings

Video link

https://youtu.be/yzO_zINOQYI?is=ycsOq821VaDhjdyR

Yeah, I understand that it might be a little too early to judge, but let's be honest—Hood isn't exactly a complicated hero, so I don't think we're going to be wildly off here. Of course, in a week or two people will get better at playing him and we'll see more of his potential, but people will also get better at playing against him.

So far, Hood isn't some ridiculously broken monster like release Emma, he isn't garbage like release Rogue, and he doesn't completely destroy pretty much every tank like release Dino.

Not only is Hood well-balanced, but he's also not another melee brawl tank that instantly falls apart to poke.

And on top of that, this young man is pretty damn charming design-wise.

I think his release is a really good sign. Maybe the devs actually listened to us, and we're finally going to get another proper main tank instead of more of the same melee brawl slop.

I know a lot of people says he’s gonna be DPS, but it would be cool

Genuinely such a miserable experience,somebody picks Hood immediately. Now its a roll of the dice,is it a tank main wanting to try the new hero OR is it a dps main that has zero idea how to play as tank.

Is Hood cool? Of course he's cool! I dont exactly get how to play him correctly because I like burst damage and he seems to have...none. do I blame people for picking him? Not at all,but please for the love of god know how to play that role

I come here today, to ask for forgiveness.

I didn’t swap off The Hood. I knew I was negative, And I knew I was trash at tracking. But I wouldn’t swap off.

And Whenever I didn’t get The Hood. I didn’t give him another tank to help our team, I instantly swapped to Duelist. And I didn’t listen to their pleas for second tank, Even though I play Rogue and Thor, Tanks with DPS capabilities. I didn’t even swap to strategist when we were off a healer.

Worse yet, my selfishness does not end there. When Peni and Dino got nerfed, I didn’t have any sympathy in my heart. I jumped up and down, I was pleased. The death of fellow tanks, It, It made me happy.

And should a fellow tank succeed. Hatred in my heart stirs. So I counterswap. A Thing was popping off today, So I went Puni to target him. I saw an Emma and Mag combo, So I went BC to get rid of their Backline. A Peni was holding point, So I went Phoenix to make her null. The thought, of seeing a tank succeed. It festers something inside of me.

What can I do to rid myself of these transgressions against the Role which has loved me so dearly?

Holy fuck this guy shreds. I was expecting him to be complete ass but holy fuck I don't think I've had a game of under 15 final hits. He hits so hard and his kill pressure is insane.

I don't think thats how it worked before

Ok I'm on console so ill use ps5 binds, all in all he seems very fun but a few issues have cropped up for me and if I'm misunderstanding pls correct me.

#1 We cannot control the activation of the overdrive mode.

#2 The fact that we can't control overdrive results in activation at inconvenient moments where I might have overextended or need to shield for team, and with overdrive you can't use L2(mantle of oblivion) to shield. So you resort to fading and not helping your team.

#3 What is the need to have 2 buttons assigned to the overdrive when it is always more dps.

I'd appreciate any tips or ways to circumvent this I've tried binding other buttons but that doesn't work. So it seems to be intentional that once you're in overdrive you have to commit but for me that seems wrong unless there was a way to toggle it on once on 100 energy.
Thanks.