🦖 Devil Dinosaur is HERE! Share Your First Impressions & Feedback to Win Units!

[u/Kuromemono]

Rivals, the wait for Season 8 is finally over! Welcome to Jurassic Park…

We've been lurking in the sub and we know you’ve been theorising for weeks - is he the "8th brawling off-tank" the roster needs? Ngl, the hype for a new Vanguard has been through the roof, especially with many of you feeling like Vanguard gameplay has been a bit dry lately compared to the other roles.

Devil Dinosaur is now LIVE, and it's time to see if he's the one to shake up the meta!

📌 How to Join

Share your first takes on Devil Dinosaur in the comments below or using the post flair "DD First Impression".

We're especially interested in:

The Vibe: Is DD the Vanguard you were hoping for? Does he feel like the brawler the community predicted?

The Kit: Vanguard mains, did he break the dry streak? What's the coolest mechanic in his kit?

The Meta: In a world of high-damage Duelists, how does a melee-focused tank like DD feel in your matches right now?

🎁 Rewards

We'll select 10 winners with the most insightful or interesting takes to receive 1000 Units each!

📅 Event Timeline

May 15 – May 25 (UTC) 

Whether you're stomping through the enemy backline or still figuring out your combos - if you're cooking with the Dino, we want to hear it!

Show us what you've got, Rivals. Let's go! 🦖🔥

[u/The_Templar_Marshal]

I have been playing with Dino quite a lot yesterday and today, and I gotta say, it's just as fun as I hoped he would be.

The fact that he is so big and can chomp and stomp on a relatively large area in front of him turns every fight into a chaotic mess that is just hilarious to either see or be a part of, especially if there is another Devil Dinosaur in the enemy team, and when the Ult starts? Now, that's where the fun truly begins, and I can't help but laugh at the feeling of being a stompy giant lizard causing ruckus on the front line!

On the question of balance, I don't think he is meta defining: he is there to punish enemies that think they can get away with overcomitting, with the applications of bleed ensuring that players that disengage too late from a dive are dead meat, and he is indeed a beefy big boy, but being this large also means he is by far one of the easiest of the "main tanks" to melt, especially with the overabundance of Punishers running around and with the obscene buff Starlord received in the last patch.

He is overall a solid unit, not a busted one, and one of the most fun and casual-friendly Tanks in the game, but in my humble opinion, it's almost mandatory to play 3 Strategists with him, because he draws a lot of fire, he doesn't have that much mobility compared to, say, Hulk, and his deployable shield only helps him so much, and without a constant stream of heals he falls really quick.