(Vainglory) Build Advice (Mostly For Captains)

Always remember to build boots.

If you're running a hero who has low energy sustain, relies on their skills, or needs lower cooldowns, run Halcyon Chargers.

If you're running a captain hero with a captain build, War Treads are for you. If you're not a captain, you would only need War Treads if you need the extra health or want to support your team to chase down enemy foes.

Journey Boots... uh. Use for heroes like Krul who chase down their enemies. The low cooldown on the boot sprint and high speed (0.6, highest of all the boots) can help with chasing down most foes.

Captain Advice + Defensive Items Advice For Your Average Hero

Defense items, always handy for the Captains. If you're a Captain, the most viable items to get to support your team are War Treads, Fountain of Renewal, and Crucible. Crucible for shielding all, Fountain for healing all, and War Treads for sprinting all. Crucible also gives the highest health; 600. It can be useful for even the non-captains. Most important note on the defensive items; When you see the enemy team run all WP, you should ALWAYS run Metal Jackets or Atlas Pauldrons. When you see the enemy team run all CP, ALWAYS run an Aegis, and probably even a Fountain for the extra shield, health, and teamwide healing just for the bonus. Most of the time if the enemy team is smart and built with teamwork, they'll have 2 heroes go one style and the other with the other style. If 2 heroes go CP, run shields. If 2 heroes go WP, run armor. Sometimes you gotta add both if the one hero is too dangerous alone as one style. Goes for Captains as well, if they run all defense or utility, check their abilities. If they're a dangerous CPer, safe bet's to shield anyway (WP too). Phinn can run all utility and defense and still deal a whoppin 300 damage with his A early game! But most likely with Captains, they'll run mixed with Utility and either WP or CP. Glass Cannon build and you can't save room for the defense items? At least bring a Slumbering Husk. It'll save you from the burst damages and hard hitting moves.

More information on the two other roles, carry and jungler, are coming soon!