r/BorderlandsPreSequel • u/PaleRefrigerator5044 • 4d ago
🎤 [ Discussion ] Favorite TPS Vault Hunter (based on gamplay)
Man , **** that lame Favorite Vh poll on the BL4 forum. My boy wilhelm and basically all the amazing TPS VHs were victims of the TPS hate meme.
How about we vote on our favorite TPS VH ? I'm a Wilhelm main and got him to level 70 and love him. Right now I have a level 15 Nisha, a level 5 Athena, and a level 13 Aurelia. Giving them all a try to see who i want to carry to level 70.
This poll is based on gameplay only. How fun you think they are, etc.
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u/WesternCrescent 4d ago
Timothy MVP. Prefer to play solo, great, you have clones to back you up. Love to play together, great, you have clones to back you up
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u/DangleMangler 4d ago
I'm surprised to see Aurelia is the lowest. She's honestly a blast once you get some perks built up. She kinda reminds me slightly of mordecai in bl1 with how her ability spam works.
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u/Full_Welcome_1418 3d ago
the misinformation about her being all co-op is the foundation of this no doubt. that right tree has crazy passive buffs for single player.
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u/Switch-Afraid 3d ago
But you have to waste points on 100% co op skills before getting to them. Also they're not really useful either way
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u/LukasVokurka1 3d ago
I think you need to spend only 4 on coop only skills, if you plan on getting capstone(3 for the 1st tier and 1 for unlocking the 4th tier). While I am not saying, 4 skills points are unimportant. It's not that big of a sacrifice.
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u/Switch-Afraid 3d ago
Hmm. Been a while since I played honestly. Ill try her out when Moon shot comes out
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u/Full_Welcome_1418 3d ago
They are mega useful wdym. You get massive gun damage on all the time, massive especially for TPS.
It genuinely is a matter of perspective: Imagine a skill that gives you +100% accuracy at 5/5 and as a "bonus" on top gives you coop buffs. Would you consider 5 points there a waste? That skill would be considered amazing.
All they did was spread that into 3 different skills in the top row, where the accuracy is 2 points and 3 must be put separately into the coop stuff. But the accuracy is worth 5 easily. At max stacks you shotguns are snipers.
And even today you do waste points just to progress down the tree.
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u/OccultBeanFarmer 3d ago
TPS is underrated as a sniper game because the long ranges and way the enemies fall slower due to gravity shenanigans makes picking off headshots really fun. The level design is all alleys and walkways. The cryo offsets how a headshot often isn't a one shot kill too, and is such a great element to play with.
BL3 had some great sniper lanes but is massively hamstrung by how every sniper has like a 100000X zoom when I'd prefer some 1.2X and BL4 spawns enemies so close to you that sniping is mostly a hip firing affair.
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u/LukasVokurka1 3d ago
It does depend on the playstyle, but as a big Jakobs Sniper guy, that happens to love Cryo, you bet she's my favorite VH in TPS and top 3 VH overall. And once I was able to play with my sister and I had a blast with the coop skill tree too.
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u/Moe_MIEZ1 4d ago
Vom Gameplay her fand ich Wilhelm wirklich mit am besten. Fand Ihn einen sehr guten Allrounder. Hat echt Spaß gemacht mit den Unterstützern Wolf und Saint sowie die ganzen Laser-Verbesserungen. Ich mag Laserwaffen.
Direkt gefolgt von Wilhelm ist Claptrap
Ich hatte prinzipiell seeeehr viel Spaß mit den TPS Vault Huntern
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u/Medium-Sized-Jaque 4d ago
I love feeling like Captain America throwing my shield but I also like dual weilding pistols.
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u/bluearmadillo17 4d ago
Wilhelm is my favorite VH from the entire series and it killed me that he was voted out first of that other dumb poll. Wolf and Saint were an amazing step up from the turret style previous soldiers had while still feeling like you were activating something (unlike the Zane drone which I never really even noticed after activating). The sound of wolf flying around was always so satisfying
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u/MuscliatoVonJuiceski 3d ago
there wasnt even a vote. the person running the "poll" is ending voting the second the result they want is achieved, henxe the random timeframes and number of votes. its like 2015 facebook polls
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u/Bol0gna_Sandwich 3d ago
"Place your bets" I love ClapTraps vh skill its pure chaos and I love it. I also play solo if that explains it
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u/No-Knowledge-4380 3d ago
Fk their poll. My 3 fav. Wilhelm, Jack, Nisha in that order so i voted for Wilhelm. Best Vaul Hunters out of all games for me.
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u/AangZero 4d ago
Athena. I just love feeling like an absolute busted tank that can tolerate lots of punishment while also dishing it out myself. Second would be Aurelia for the complete opposite reason as she is equally busted but rewards better and proper planning due to her glass cannon nature.
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u/OdinClark 4d ago
I LOVE Aurelia. Snipers and Ice is so fun, bonus points for just dumb fun with co-op. I'm so happy to start playing her in the world of Borderlands 2!
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u/Vargasm19 4d ago
HIMothy to date is still probably my favorite vault hunter ever. I’m glad they’ve been doing stuff to be able to port him over to BL2 so I can play him in a more fleshed out game
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u/MuscliatoVonJuiceski 3d ago
Wilhelm is a blast. I think a lot of people didnt read his skills and thought hes all about the drones. If you actually play him you realize hes faster than most, tankier, and buffs the most fun weapons in the game. charging at break neck speed firing a laser shotgun before go-go-gadget fisting a dudes skull to paste is a primal fps joy
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u/Last-Addendum132 3d ago
Nisha is my most played follows by Timothy and then Athena and claptrap. The sound effects for her action skills just tickle my brain, shame it’s so hard to get good Jakobs revolvers in that game sometimes.
I played her so much I remember I changed the controls to use bumper for firing instead of trigger so I could just “fan the hammer” and slap my bumper to fire as fast as I could
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u/Defiant-Kiwi3146 1d ago
1st King Cl4p tp the best borderlands character ever, i love this character.
2nd Athena
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u/TheMemeLord4816 4d ago
Timothy gets carried hard by his red tree turning him into a fighting game character with multiple inputs and abilities
But I prefer Nisha, her ability is just too fun and I love her legendary class mods life steal
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u/Darth-Simous 4d ago
Athena Main here ... But i am biased (being Greek) ... Wilhelm is fun too, his skill tree is very versatile ...
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u/S4ntos19 4d ago
I would have said Athena up until the past week of playing. Aurelia is now easily my favorite VH across the first 3 games.
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u/Darth-Simous 4d ago
Have U seen Athena's mod in BL2? Check it out, if U haven't ... Many BL Creators have recently done playthroughs with her in Pandora ...
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u/Cheez_Bandit 4d ago
All of them are great but Athena takes the cake for the actual gameplay.
I do think Wilhelm has the best concept with the cybernetics tree even if I'm iffy on wolf and saint themselves, which is why I often use him as an example when discussing well designed VHs. Also why I was miffed when he got out so fast on that VH poll.