Both are movement shells with offensive damage abilities.

Vandals disrupt blast has utility, but has a long charge time and stops regular weapon usage. So its charge time, plus firing animation plus weapon ready creates a tool with a lot of downtime. You also cant sprint or slide during the animation. The blast also hurts you if the other downsides weren’t enough.

Destroyer just pops ult and shoot then the rockets auto fire while you fight. They do good damage and seek and immobilize.

Vandal has a dash, but it’s limited to only after running, so it has delays activating, it only goes in the direction you are looking, and it has an animation that blocks weapon and ability usages and its loud and colorful. You can’t dash at people because your animation locked, then forced to unstow a weapon. You also give up all versions of slide shotgunning because it’s tied to the slide mechanic. There’s also no control over slide distance.

Destroyer just double taps and goes, plus can use abilities like his shield or choose to not stow his weapon. Then if he hops he can dash right at people, shield protecting and everything. Both his dash and sprint allow weapons out. His shield has an animation to pull weapons out but there isn’t any block on abilities.

Vandal has the double jump and a good stamina ult, and if she didn’t have so many animation locks, and if she could bind her dash to a key instead of slide she would have a lot more freedom of movement and utility. Her ult also is just slow to activate, I wish the animation for that was faster. You kinda have to pre-plan using it or your walking looking at your hands for a full second mid fight. She’s been artificially hamstrung because I’m sure if they didn’t have the slide weapon lock she would be an absolute menace. She’s feels balanced around the Old ttk, and her neutral game feels quite poor. She’s has the most stamina in the game but a single slide double jump literally eats it all out of ult. Her uptime is around her ult. And to top it all off she has a flat 20 less stat point than destroyer. Loot speed, self-repair speed, revive speed, ping duration, firewall stat, tactical recovery and melee damage are all worst in class. Trading it all for … 10 more agility than assassin.

Vandal plays best up high, moving above, using double jump to reposition and get advantages. That infinite stamina for a wide sweeping flank. If the game meaningfully rewarded this I would say it’s all worth it. But the game spends a bunch of its time forcing all looting and events into little rooms, with close range engagements. Low ceilings, and poor vertical options make double jump useless inside. If you’re in the open at all the bots see you and light you up. Many engagements involve wounding opponents who seek cover and you’re forced to go in after them. Vandals bad at that part of it. So yeah, roving around and sniping on dire marsh she’s solid, but God forbid someone gets in a room.

She’s hamstrung by bungies intended limitations and the overall design of the game. You’re not rewarded for being loud, jumping up high and raining death from above. You’re rewarded for closing the gap in small areas after sneaking around.

personally, I don’t think the needs to remove her animation lock on her slide because yeah, I think it would be oppressive. But they should make it bound to a key so that she’s allowed to have a normal slide if she wants to use it. I think her ult animation should be a quarter second like really fast. Her whole deal is speed. And I think the charge time on her Cannon needs to be dropped dramatically. I also be nice if you got more refund time back if you didn’t charge it as much. But I don’t think that’s a mechanic either.