For Honor: How to Play the Warden Class

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This For Honor Warden guide will help you learn the character and will provide tips and tricks you can use to outclass your opponent. 

The Warden in For Honor is a fairly straightforward character that focuses on getting the advantage over his enemies through adaptability.

You'll need to be adaptable as Warden and play more aggressive. Focus on finding ways to use Crushing Counterstrike, but don't use it too often as it'll train your opponents that match to specifically look out for it. When used after a counter the move will be unblockable.

Always, always remember to use your Revenge meter. Revenge boosts your damage and health — as a Warden you're going to need to abuse the bonuses whenever possible. Revenge mode makes all your attacks uninterruptible as well and attacks are auto-parried on activation. Basically, makes you something to run away from.

The Revenge meter is just another option for you — treat it as such. It's not something you need nor is it something you want to waste. Revenge will boost you overall and make you the deadliest jack-of-all-trades.

Feats

You'll gain more feat resources playing objectives and killing enemies, however, playing into your set "role" will garner you more resources to unlock feats.

First Slot

Body Count — Unlocked at level 1. Killing soldiers grants you health and stamina.

Conqueror — Unlocked at level 5. Capture control zones faster and boosts last longer.

Come at me — Unlocked at level 13. Get more renown from kills, but take more damage from attacks.

Second Slot

Inspire — Unlocked at level 1. Allies deal more damage, soldiers fight faster.

Fiat Lux— Unlocked at level 7. Throw a flash grenade that blinds enemies for a few seconds.

Thick Blood — Unlocked at level 15. Gain immunity from regular bleed damage.

Third Slot

Second Wind — Unlocked at level 1. Recover some of your health.

Pugno Mortis — Unlocked at level 9. Throw an explosive that deals moderate damage in an area.

Takedown — Unlocked at level 17. Throws make enemies fall to the ground.

Fourth Slot

Catapult — Unlocked at level 1. Call a catapult strike to deal massive damage over an area.

Stalwart Banner — Unlocked at level 11. Nearby allies continuously regain health.

Morale Booster — Unlocked at level 19. Improve damage for you and your allies for a short duration.

As you level up, more feats will be available to you. Here are my favorite feats to use when they become available to you.

Conqueror — Lengthening any bonus is great. You can also combine this passive ability with Morale Booster for those sudden death fights.

Inspire — Playing around your team is a must and this ability just makes everyone better. I sub this out for Thick Bloodwhenever I play in 2v2's or 1v1 Duels.

Second Wind — The heals come in fairly clutch for the dire situations, but I preferTakedown for smaller game modes. The crowd control is great.

Morale Booster — Boosting yourself and your allies is always a must. The heals on the banner aren't great because the game is so movement heavy.

Playstyle

4v4 Dominion

Ubisoft literally defined you as adaptable. It's the simplest way to put it and the best way to play him. You have so many options at your disposal so be unreadable. You never want to fall into the trap of playing the Warden only a single way — especially in dominion.

Work your way around the map and find your niche with the team. If you need to be a stable Point B player, then do so. If you need to hold the enemies objective with an ally, you got it.

4v4 and 2v2 Brawls

As a Warden you can get early damage in, if you can, then move to support your allies. 1v1's are not your specialty. Stay in the midst of the action, but don't be the center of attention.

4v4 is sort of a mess. There will be a lot of dancing around each other, but you can score some easy light hits every now and again. Never fully commit in this mode unless you know you will win outright.

1v1 Duel

Warden is mediocre at 1v1 fights due to the character's archetype. The Warden is good at everything, but not great at anything. Your personal skill and style will determine your victory in duels.

Abuse your double side hits and try to bait out overheads. You can get easy double Guard Break combos as the Warden.

Be sure to check out every other For Honor class guide here and for clarification on some of the game's more confusing mechanics.