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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KidSnide" data-source="post: 4719444" data-attributes="member: 54710">Right.  Without having seen them in play, Avengers strike me as the type of strikers who are supposed to be able to leave the rest of the party and make a honest one-on-one attempt to take out the controllers and artillery in the back line.  Rogues are notoriously bad at this sort of strategy (unless they really pile it on with abilities that let them set up their own combat advantage), and melee rangers can be quite vulnerable to the counter-gank when part of the enemy front line collapses backwards to hit the PC flanker.  Avengers don't have the damage output of a melee ranger, but they have better defenses and lockdown abilities which makes them better suited for this tactic.Avengers are probably real good characters for players who want to do their own thing.  It seems like they are less dependent on group coordination than most D&D classes.-KS</blockquote>