Changed my mind on Vantage
I was happy to get a load of games in before I made any serious comments on her, and I don’t like screaming nerf in the first day of release but she is frustrating the hell out of myself and friends ...
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@IdleHandsNo1
Fresh take after having just played two no-fill matches as Vantage: I never even used her ultimate. There was no need. Her passive is a guaranteed red shield no matter which shield you start with. The ability to kill enemies (with the passive) is no higher than it would be without, but the ability to harry enemies, maybe even tip a fight between two other squads, is amazing. And bad. The distance limit is something, but not much. The fact that ammo stacks are bigger is a help. Which is to say, makes her even more over-powered. She is devasting against anyone who has to cross open ground. Her tactical, which again I did not use, is essentially Pathy's grapple... or Loba's jump drive. Making her even more over-powered.
In my scrub lobbies I don't seem to have much trouble playing against her, but I have to think that's because most of the players who chose her are not already coming from a sniper mindset the way I am. I'm not sure they'll ever figure out how to use her effectively, but in higher skilled lobbies? Look out. She's definitely the new Valk.
And I guess that's the point. The new think at Respawn is to make legends who are a mash up of old legend skills in lethal combinations because they give less-skilled players a leg up, and they give legacy players new reasons to grind a battle pass for skins.
Like Valk, she needs to go.
Fresh take after having just played two no-fill matches as Vantage: I never even used her ultimate. There was no need. Her passive is a guaranteed red shield no matter which shield you start with. The ability to kill enemies (with the passive) is no higher than it would be without, but the ability to harry enemies, maybe even tip a fight between two other squads, is amazing. And bad. The distance limit is something, but not much. The fact that ammo stacks are bigger is a help. Which is to say, makes her even more over-powered. She is devasting against anyone who has to cross open ground. Her tactical, which again I did not use, is essentially Pathy's grapple... or Loba's jump drive. Making her even more over-powered.
In my scrub lobbies I don't seem to have much trouble playing against her, but I have to think that's because most of the players who chose her are not already coming from a sniper mindset the way I am. I'm not sure they'll ever figure out how to use her effectively, but in higher skilled lobbies? Look out. She's definitely the new Valk.
And I guess that's the point. The new think at Respawn is to make legends who are a mash up of old legend skills in lethal combinations because they give less-skilled players a leg up, and they give legacy players new reasons to grind a battle pass for skins.
Like Valk, she needs to go.
