Overview
Do you like walls (not the cheating kind)? Vyse is a sentinel who excels at stuffing fast entries -- enemies will almost always have to slow down when they approach her site, which will give you ample time to prepare your response. She’s an agent with a lot of tools in her kit to support your team, including a flash that can help initiate onto sites, and her ultimate ability has one of the largest areas of effect in the game.
Role: Sentinel
Sentinels are defensive anchors for your team.
On defense, they provide utility that can clog chokes and slow the enemy team’s approach if not deter them altogether.
On attack, they are typically responsible for watching flanks with their utility while lurking in a different direction from your team.
Tips and Tricks
Vyse’s big ticket ability is Shear [Q], which will activate a wall as soon as an enemy steps over it. This means it’s a great tool at splitting up the enemy team, and it can also isolate players if they try to flank your team.
The wall is paired with both Razorvine [C] and Arc Rose [E] to help kill the person that isolates themselves. The simple pattern is to activate the vines as someone triggers them, and then flash them to enable a free peek and kill.
Enemies will eventually wisen up and try a variety of tactics to trigger the wall, such as activating it and then quickly jumping back to safety. You can counter this by trying to play more aggressively with your Arc Rose [E] especially.
Razorvine [E] also pairs well with allied utility -- it’s an ability that punishes enemies for moving, which means abilities that punish them for sitting still will make them pick between a rock and a hard place.
On offense, Arc Rose [E] is great at helping you take site because it can be placed through walls to generate an unexpected flash.
Steel Garden [X] is a great tool at equalizing guns if you are disadvantaged on an econ round. It’s also great at generally forcing enemies to back off -- while they can sit there and use their pistol, it’s a much more favorable matchup for you if you have the gun advantage.
You can find Vyse lineups here.
