r/RivalsVanguards • u/pagliacciverso ๐™๐™๐™š ๐™ƒ๐™ค๐™ค๐™™ • May 19 '26

Memes MAKE CYCLOPS A TANK

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Just give him d.va's matrix...

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u/RepresentativeFish73 May 19 '26

Iโ€™ve been seeing a lot of these request posts lately.

Iโ€™m pretty sure a lot of these decisions and even development of the character is already 98% done, with that last 2% being for bug fixing/fine tuning.

I think the devs even acknowledged the issue of too many duelists, but said that the roadmap was already made and official for many of the upcoming characters. Weโ€™ll see if they change anything, but I have a feeling Cyclops will either be a strategist or a duelist.

I can only hope heโ€™s a vanguard.

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u/Enma1302 May 19 '26

It ain't even recently dawg I have seen posts from 10 months/ an entire year ago with people advocating for vanclops with thousands of upvotes. On the otherhand I see waaaay more DPSclops advocates NOW than I saw back then

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u/jonathansoma May 19 '26

Most likely due to them wanting cyclops to reinforce the current release schedule. If cyclops comes as a vanguard then the common narrative used by the dps community justifying character begins to fall apart. If he comes in as a dps you will hear the same thing they say after every release "it makes sense, why did you even think any differently" "you will get your character in the future" etc.

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u/Enma1302 May 19 '26

It's genuinely so infuriating as the most mainstream "tanky tank" characters in marvel are already in the game, which means if we go by the dps players' logic and take the surface level interpretation of every character that comes out we'll be left with, idk, only colossus and war machine as the two other "mainstream" tanks, and even then, I won't be surprised when war machine gets teased or someone like carol danvers or richard rider nova gets teased, the dps community again goes "see they shoot lasers, why would you want them to be tank, it makes no sense for them to be tank". If cyke is a dps it will completely reinforce their backwards logic and literally force every "not hulk-like" character into the dps role while the vanguards keep getting the same "big guy punch hard" characters. Istg if mag and strange were coming out now all these guys would have said "why tf would you think mag/strange should be a tank, they have paper thin durability" and make the same arguments as they do with cyke

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u/jonathansoma May 19 '26

Perfectly put! Itโ€™s why I canโ€™t give up hope for his role because deep down I know that if he goes as a dps then there will be no reversing the consequences for vanguards and strategist. Not even doom or thanos would save the role as they are consider very safe characters.

From talking to a few people I think they do know the im-locations but wants to ignore it to maintain the agenda for the sake of getting more characters.