Bangalore Quick Guide – Abilities, Tips and Tricks for Beginners
Legend Overview
| Class | Difficulty | Tier List Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Assault | Easy | C Tier |
Bangalore is a great offensive legend that is very self-sufficient and quick moving. Bangalore isn’t a team-oriented legend, though, which is a pro or con, depending on how it’s looked at. This is a plus for solo queue players because it enables them to stay alive a bit longer. But for anyone playing with a 3 stack or looking to play around their teammates, many picks are better than Bangalore for the offensive role.
Strengths
- Bangalore offers cover for her teammates with her Tactical Ability Smoke Launcher. She’s also a self-sufficient legend because she can use these smokes in smaller engagements to escape opponents.
- Her passive enables her to escape sticky situations and run to cover.
Weaknesses
- Bangalore’s ultimate Rolling Thunder is very easy to dodge, and it can be difficult to find value in this ability.
- Any enemies running digital threat optics can see through Bangalore’s smokes, giving her and her teammates a false sense of security inside of them.
Skill Breakdown
Passive Ability – Double Time
Bangalore moves faster if she takes fire while sprinting. This ability increases her movement speed by 30% for 2 seconds.
Tactical Ability (Q) – Smoke Launcher
Bangalore fires a smoke canister that explodes into a cloud of smoke upon impact with a surface. This ability lasts for roughly 20 seconds and has two charges.
Ultimate Ability (Z) – Rolling Thunder
Bangalore calls in an artillery strike that slowly sweeps over its deployed area. The missiles that land deal 40 damage and slow enemies caught in the missile’s blast radius.
Tips and Tricks
Tip #1 – Seeing Through the Smoke
Bangalore’s tactical ability Smoke Launcher is a very powerful tool on its own because of the cover it provides. However, this ability can be much better when combined with a Digital Threat scope. This will enable you to see enemies through the smoke while they cannot see you. Anyone playing Bangalore should prioritize getting this scope, pinging it out for teammates if they find more, and running weapons that can carry the scope, such as a Wingman.
Tip #2 – Being a Team Player
Bangalore’s abilities have the potential to impact her teammates negatively. Her missiles will stun her teammates, preventing them from pushing, and her smoke also blocks their line of sight. So if you’re playing Bangalore, you should be clever when using her abilities. One example of this would be if you knocked a player on the enemy team. You could use your ultimate here, but it will slow you from pushing since you take the same damage and slow effect, and your teammates also get slowed by the missiles. This is just one example, but the main goal of this tip is to get Bangalore players thinking about using their abilities creatively and timing them correctly.
