Well, well, well. Look what the Chatnoir dragged in. Well, Trinity Dragon support has all been revealed, so now I will see what Great Nature has been up to! It is:

THE GREAT NATURE CLAN ANALYSIS!

But before we start, a special thank you and shout to my boi kippforshort over at Great Nature university. He helped provide a lot of research for this clan anlysis and I just wanted to say thank you. Check him out if your interested. He does good stuff! I have a link to him at the bottom of the webpage. Now, without any mentions, let’s get started.

Leo-pald

I figured we’d get the easy ones out of the way first. So, Leo-pald. He used to be good. Not the regular version, oh no. The “Reverse” version was top notch at it’s time. Give two units +4000, and then you get to keep them. That’s basically it. However, this idea has become obsolete by two words: field control. With Overlords, Link Joker, and even Megacolony topping the tiers, the friendliness you have for your units comes back to bite you right in the a##. So unfortunately, he’s not competitively viable. And the G-unit doesn’t save him either. Better direction, executed poorly. Oh yeah, Al-mi’raj isn’t saving it either. It’s still inconsitent and most would rather get more draws.

Hammsuke

Well, here’s a little better. The Hammsuke’s have been around since Limit Break was new, and they have gotten more units. While Leo-pald and Hamsuke create nice budget decks, no. Just no. Hammsuke revolves around when they get retired, counter blast 1. You get one of them back in your hand. I’ll be honest, Hammsuke is very nice. There’s a counter charge option, which helps with the excessive counter-blasting, ways to recycle Hammsukes, and some nice power boosts. But, this is budget, nothing else. Why would you rather play this than Bigbelly or Honorary Professor? Don’t you want to use your counter blasts on something else? I see some potential, not a lot. The consistency is nice though.

Honorary Professor

Now, this subclan is newer because is used to be an archetype until Trinity Dragon, in which it got support. Now, it has a forerunner, a G1, two G2s, and another Grade 3 that is very interesting. Chatnoir, the head professor of the subclan, is a break ride. It’s a good break ride, but that’s where Chatsauvage comes in. If you clicked on that link, then you know his amazing skill. According to the rulebook of Vanguard, it syas that if two skills activate at the same time, then the player decides which one one to resolve first. So you stride into Cath Palug (for example), using Crayon Tiger, combined with those skills, +28k power, a restand and 7 draws for 4 counter blast. Or you could go into Brahmanda, +8k power, and two draws for counter blast 1 for every rear-guard attack that turn. With Reader Pig and Go Home Toad, and the multi-attacks become giant snowball boulders. However, it’s not very consistent. To pull of combos like this, you need specific cards, and they’re not really general. Go Home isn’t really synergizing with the on attack skill, and without reader pigs, your snowballs will melt. Of course, you could combo with draws, but that gets rid of your more offensive trigger lineup. And the newer decks of Great Nature are prone to deck out with that draw power already, so adding draws would be a waste. I’ve heard some players have just decided to play Honorary traditionally, with a regular break ride, switching units for more consistency, but I think the subclan will get better in the future.

Bigbelly

Battle of the Bigbellies, huh? Well I must say. Now that Bigbelly has even more support, these guys have elevated on my favorite decks list. Let’s start with original Bigbelly. Well, now the new G guardian, Al-mi’raj, has been revealed, and Fullmark Gorilla, this makes Bigbelly much more consistent, not being vulnerable to the control decks of today, and being able to pull of more combos with his on stride skill. Oh yeah, Fernyiges makes this better, especially if you have Alibelly and Fullmark on the field, because Fernyiges gets the draw for each unit targeted, not retired. Of course, this is only if you have heal trigger, which isn’t the easiest thing, and the deck is still vulnerable to lock because it keeps more units than Teacher’s Cane of Affection. Speaking of Cane of Affection, he’s doing nicely as well, with Lesser Writer being a great resist toolbox and giving your field a little boost. Fenyiges is also ideal for him, because he gives resources and wipes out the field for TCAB’s skill for striding (not stride skill). Although, you don’t have an abundance of good units with success to choose from right now, so the consistency is going to be a little stale. Just be careful.

Overall, Great Nature is doing very good right now with new support. As with all clans in this, I hope to see more good things come from it in the future. Thanks for reading! Feel free to comment wherever you came from! (I post this on Reddit and Fandom). Oh yes, please answer the poll here. Which clan would would you like me to analyze next? Dimension Police or Oracle Think Tank?

Official Rating: One Honorary Professor/10

A Very Special Thanks to: kippforshort on GNU. Keep making good content, one Vanguard player to another! 🙂