I just finished the draft for a post I started two months ago. It’s a new framework for how to measure and quantify rotations, timing, and positioning in Vainglory. It’s the first post I’ve done in collaboration with Broken Myth (BM). Gadianton (BM’s Founder) pitched the idea to me and told me that many people have tried to do this post but failed. Nothing gets me going like a good challenge.

We should be publishing the post this week. It’s incredibly in-depth (the draft is 11 pages). One of the aspects of the game I researched but didn’t make center stage in the post is Wall Jumping. So I’d like to share that information here. Below is a table of all the abilities which can jump over walls, the hero that has that ability, the range of that ability, whether you need a target to use the ability, the ability’s cooldown and energy cost.

Before doing this analysis I knew Ardan was mobile but I wasn’t sure why. His move speed is actually one of the lower ones as a melee hero (it’s 3.3 instead of 3.4). But here you can see that all three of his abilities allow him to cross over walls. Two of them need targets but still.

Surprisingly, Joule is probably the next most impressive in this group. She has the largest range of all abilities and the fastest cooldown (10 seconds) for an ability that does not need a target. She also has one fastest move speeds for a melee hero at 3.4.

After Joule, Glaive and Rona have the next fastest cooldowns for abilities which do not need targets at 12 and 14 seconds. Both of these heroes have move speeds of 3.3. Koshka and Fortress are probably the next, while they need a target to cross walls, they both have a wide range at 8 and 9 respectively.

But wait, we forgot Vox (and other heroes who can exploit this bug)

Vox is an interesting case because his Sonic Zoom can only jump certain parts of certain walls. A couple other abilities can jump these same places such as Blackfeather’s Feint of Heart and Krul’s Dead Man’s Rush, but these seem like a bug to me. No doubt these are useful to note and anyone who plays Vox, Blackfeather, or Krul, should memorize these. Player Resurrekt just shared an awesome video that aggregates all of these special spots. Check it out below.

*Gadianton tells me that the backflip of Saw’s Roadierun works similar to Vox’s dash and so does Ozo’s Acrobounce

**Nirheim tells me Taka’s A works too similar to Vox’s dash

***XuanXuan made 6 videos for Wall Jumping with different heroes, check them out here. My favorite are below.

****Nirheim dug up a GIF of Taka jumping over Rona as she jumps over a wall. Check it out here, it is epic!

*****Both Gadianton and Flash pointed out that Koshka’s Yummy Catnip Frenzy can go through walls. I didn’t include it initially because it doesn’t work on minions and is not very useful for getting across the map faster. But I changed my mind and am noting it here now.

******CoreFour1996 pointed out that Vanguard’s range was recently reduced from 9 to 7.