Vanguard is the most fun role in my opinion. Why does nobody play it?

We need more vanguard characters to encourage fans to play them. The Thing is a step in the right direction.

Vanguard takes a lot of thought. Knowing when to push up away from your healers to chase someone, knowing when to shield your team or output DPS. Slow movement and a designated location in the team comp, a lot of players struggle to keep up with it.

Tanking is difficult for most people as they treat them like dps, so most people don’t have fun with them since they can’t play it properly. Some also don’t like getting targeted by most of the enemy team and relying on healing from unreliable teammates. Also, most of the tanks don’t really do as much dps as the dps (and that’s a good thing), but most people like to kill things quickly. ” Big damage means me do good” kinda mindset ya know.

**Hulk** after changing the setting to disable hold to big jump is fun once I get used to getting big jump ready 24/7. Punch clap punch punch shift punch punch punch alrightfuckyoubye. Also great to lock down an Iron Fist. Forced him to either trade with 1 (not good) or straightout kill him, then jump back to frontline and enjoy 6v5. Not to mention jumping back and shifting for extra protection against ults

**Captain** is also fun and somewhat devastating with Thor’s teamup. I duo with my IRL friend and we smashed enemies’ strats to death everytime we saw them. Very funny seeing both Hulk and Strange bodybuarding their precious supports but unfortunately fail every time (My condolence for the CAD, 1/11/8 at the end)

IMO all other tanks lack the fun or dynamic of gameplay choice as most of their gameplan are quite straight forward. Due to their lack of mobility they are also more dependent on strats pumping resource to them.

EDIT: disable hold to big jump = press space to **start charging**, press again to jump

SETTING > KEYBOARD > ALL HEROS <=> BRUCE BANNER > scroll down and toggle OFF **Hold to Activate Incredible Leap**

It’s the biggest learning gap when coming from Fortnite or CoD or whatever shooter people come from. 

Duelist is just shooting the enemy, specialist is just shooting your team. Vanguard is a huge change. 

As a Venom/Doctor Strange main I feel as though if you want to perform well your support has to be on the fuckin’ ball. Tanks are extremely reliant on the team whereas Iron Man or Spider-Man you can kinda just do whatever you want as long as you’re getting kills.

This is coming from a gold 2 player, if you disagree don’t be a dick about it- respectfully explain why you think I’m wrong, I’d love to hear it.

I love Magneto, there’s nothing like the feeling of bubbleing a low-HP teammate about to be killed by a flanker. However while I like playing vanguards I’m shit at it, so I mostly play healers.

Vanguard main here. I 100% agree with you. I use every tank(minus Thor and Venom)and can do pretty good with each one. High health, great escaping mechanics if needed to go back, and the defensive ones are just so fun and great for pressure, too. Need more vanguard lovers out here

Because a lot of reason:

1. Players want damage and think that means they are doing good.

2. Players do not want responsibility and tanking requires more than just standing and hitting.

3. People believe that “well Duelist has more characters so more people will naturally go there”, when in reality, it doesn’t matter if we have 60 characters split evenly amongst roles, or 33 characters split unevenly amongst all roles, more players, especially BAD players will head to dps.

4. Tanks have a lot of nuance and can feel bad to play if you don’t understand who to choose and how to counter pick.

None, one or more than one can apply, but these are the reasons i see. Evidently this is why a lot of people also meme on DPS players.

I like Groot the most as Vangaurd and the most in general my fav hero ever lol

I love playing magneto and bullying the backline with my RMB. though vanguard takes a lot of game sense to play. you have to play at the right spot. push too far and you wont get heals, dont push enough and the game will stall. but since it takes “some” thinking to play, not a lot of people play it because they dont wanna put in the effort of pressing more than 1 button. I used to play peni but right now the lobbies are 1-3-2 which is really unfun to play peni as a solo tank. magneto on the other hand, hard counters luna and cloak’s stalling ults, and semi counters wolverine.

I find most of them boring, that is all

Started playing Doctor Strange in Plat because I kept filling into Tank and he’s quickly become one of my favorite characters to play. Actually a fair bit of carry potential with Strange.

Playing a bit more Magneto as well and it’s so fun one shotting a support through their ultimate. Planning to pick up Hulk/Captain America as well later in the season too.

sub tops unite

Because it’s hard. You can’t just dive in with Hulk and start smashing like you would expect from the comics, shows and movies. You get MELTED with Hulk if you try a 1v6.

Tanking requires knowing where the enemy is, where your healers are and where cover/health packs are at all times. Knowing when to give it gas and when to let off and peel. Good tanking is a craft that takes work. For the amount of work you put in as a tank to not even get MVP or a thanks from your team, it’s more enticing to just shut your brain off and get kills as DPS.

It’s a thankless job, but we do it and real players know we carry the team.