Ruckus is by the far the worst front line....

[Tiger-Rex]

His damage is subpar, Zhin renders him useless, and his low health makes him trash. I hope he receives some needed buffs here soon.

[Lie Chen Zhou]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NICUmZ_Nx0U

[Mustafa Amatil]

*Torvald

[Maa De Griff]

I want to specify that Zhin renders absolutely nobody useless. If you're dumb enough to attack a countering zhin, then you deserve the 7000ish damage you take in return.

[Mustafa Amatil]

Also Ruckus is godly, what are you on about?

[Vorteckz]

His damage isn't subpar if you can aim. He's probably the most reliable damage you can get from a frontline, maybe joined first place with Architectonics Barik. And with Aerial Assault Legendary, he's got the best mobility out of any Frontline. They've all got their pros and cons :)

[Sn3k]

Torvald would like to say something about that and just because you can't see his uses/or can't play him good doesn't mean he's bad :/

[THE_RaBiD_CanuK]

Ruckus has never been the best FL ... he's not terrible, but okay.

[ワイルド]

I think Ruckus is more to the damage side rather than front line.

[LunarGatta]

The title of worst frontline goes to torvald, no question about it.

[Bob3]

Insanely high damage, good mobility (with his 3rd legendary), and great defense. If you think he's bad, then you're crazy. There is a reason why he fits so well in a 2 tank team.

[Sn3k]

Originally posted by Bob:

Insanely high damage, good mobility (with his 3rd legendary), and great defense. If you think he's bad, then you're crazy. There is a reason why he fits so well in a 2 tank team.

^^^
Found out he works really good with Fernando, especially in Onslaught

[Undying is F U N]

Nah that reward goes to my most played hero Torvald. Yay our autoaim beams tickles, most of our skils can't deal damage, no mobility, wrecker melts the protection and self shields and the game winning ult is countered hard by a 200-400-600 credit item Resilience. Seriously even when the enemy team is too stupid to buy Wrecker you still feel like you have to pay extra attention to everything just to stay alive.

[JKGames]

Originally posted by TheCampingOwl:

The title of worst frontline goes to torvald, no question about it.

This is accurate.

Basically, there are 4-5 primary tanks right now depending on interpretation, Makoa, Fernando, Barik, Inara, and perhaps Ash. Of these, Makoa tends to be the favored one (though I personally regard his position as secured mostly in a two tank setup for reasons) with the other 4 being largely equal in potential performance and simply differing depending on what you need in a tank. Ruckus is the favored secondary tank and actually tends to be picked over the other tanks since you can do well with any one of the other tanks. He's got this position thanks to the massive amounts of damage he outputs, often getting more damage than the damage champions on our team.

The weak link in the tank lineup right now is Torvald. He's competing as a secondary tank, but his low damage output, fairly bad utility, having most of his health as shields (which gets countered by Wrecker and cannot be healed by your support), and nerfed bubble shield (which is his primary useful ability) make him a much weaker secondary tank choice compared to Ruckus or Ash. He has extremely bad falloff in the game as well since he is very hard countered by resiliance. The old guy could definitely use some buffs to get him up to the other tanks.

Other than Torvald the tanks are actually pretty well balanced at the moment.

[J0e]

Originally posted by Cin:

Also Ruckus is godly, what are you on about?

Forgive them, they dont know what they're saying :)

[Shigoto]

Originally posted by Maa De Griff:

I want to specify that Zhin renders absolutely nobody useless. If you're dumb enough to attack a countering zhin, then you deserve the 7000ish damage you take in return.

Im just curious.. how are you getting 7000 damage exactly? Is it from his legendary card that changes counter because its 700 on hit in the description.
im gonna guess that this guy might not have acess to the "make this character good" card on account of the massive essence cost and no way to earn it naturally. Tieing the majority of a characters abilities to a random drop loot system that can constantly give dupes is going to have this affect on the average players experience/opinion of how useful some characters are. It also makes it harder to predict what your up against by silouete alone. is this a "counter once and then he dies" Zhin.. or a Zhin who equipped the "have an actual good counter..and then he dies" card.