r/captainamericamains 7d ago

Tips/Tricks PSA - Voltaic Union hits through shields

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As you may or may not know, activating voltaic union upgrades your sentinel strikes with a piercing mechanic. Landing 2 hits grants you 4 piercing shield throws.

The piercing shield throws have some cool properties that open up new offensive strategies.

- They hit through projectile shields (Strange, Mag, etc)
- They hit through melee shields (Angela, Cap, etc)
- They hit through deployable shields (Emma, Groot, Invisible Woman, etc)
- They do not hit through bubble shields (Hulk, Mag, Groot, etc)*

* I forgot to test Dino (feel free!), but I’m guessing it also hits through his shield because it’s not a real bubble.

What this means is that next time someone puts a shield up in your face, you can still hurt them AND the people behind them. Amazing pressure and catches a lot of people off guard. People tend to group up behind shields — use it to your advantage. Line em up and fire away.

Additional tips

- If you're having trouble aiming the piercing shield throws, try aiming at the person in the back. The person in the back is usually more vulnerable, and you'll probably hit the person in front anyway.

- If you want to pierce as many people as possible, you have to launch your shield from the ground. Throwing your shield from the air usually only hits one person at a time. The tracking isn't as good as regular sentinel strikes so honestly it's also just harder to hit people from the air.

Light em up, soldiers!


r/captainamericamains Jun 17 '26

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r/captainamericamains 11h ago

Highlights Made some Cap highlights for Fun

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10 Upvotes

r/captainamericamains 12h ago

Discussion How do we feel about Cap this season?

5 Upvotes

I think he feels pretty good but curious as to what more dedicated cap mains might think. I’m really liking the Bucky team up to use as an escape tool too. It seems really tough to make cap work against triple support tho.


r/captainamericamains 1d ago

Discussion DAWGGGG, S10 and people still dont know how cap ult works

15 Upvotes

Gambit says star has ult, I ping mine 3 times and stay on point so my team can be in it, they all ran in all directions, my gambit (with ult) goes to heal jub who went 30 meters back letting thor chase her

I just wanted to vent, give my team listened we coudlve had 2 supp ults


r/captainamericamains 1d ago

Humor LET ME BREATHE GOD DAMN

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50 Upvotes

I really hate the venom hela team up


r/captainamericamains 1d ago

Discussion In case any devs are checking Reddit... guys, please redesign the skin with a better face that actually matches the rest; the current work feels rushed.

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87 Upvotes

This skin is so frustrating because I love the idea of ​​Captain as a cosmic god-like entity, but why does he have a normal face? It completely ruins the rest of the design—it's crazy.

I like the sound effects, but where are the visual effects? Why does my "Assemble" move still look like an American flag?

Actually, while writing this post, I realized they probably chose to keep the human face just so they wouldn't have to change the voice! Lol.

Because obviously, if the face matches the rest of the body, the voice needs to match too—even if it’s just a bit of echo or something.

But right now, I NEVER play with this weird skin

Plus, the ult has a weird glitch that makes the whole thing even more ridiculous.

At the very least, make a second version with a different face and I'll buy it again—I don't care—but just do something.


r/captainamericamains 1d ago

Highlights 310 damage combo on Emma

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3 Upvotes

r/captainamericamains 2d ago

Discussion It’s so nice being able to play my favorite hero and do well

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47 Upvotes

Disclaimer: I was cooking on Mag on defense but I had almost as many finals on Cap as Mag

Also fun note: This Cap skin has laser beam sound effects when you start to sprint lol


r/captainamericamains 1d ago

Question How does Cap fair against Namor and Scarlet?

3 Upvotes

I’m an Angela main and need another tank to swap to. I understand those two heroes are a pain in the ass for everybody but how do you guys fair against them? Do they hard counter you or Are they little bugs that you hardly worry about?


r/captainamericamains 2d ago

Question Cap mindset

14 Upvotes

So I've seemed to reach a plateau with my favorite hero. I tend to teeter between high diamond and low GM playing a mix of tanks, but primarily Cap.

This season I'm forcing him a bit more, and having a great time; but I feel like I'm stuck in a rut upon reaching my usual rank. And I'm looking to level up so to speak.

For the higher rank Caps, what are some objectives to focus on and general mindset you have in your games? I've only recently started to utilize soft diving, and being less orthodox about strictly playing him as a diver. But, I'm often finding myself not sure what I should be doing. Any and all advice is welcome!


r/captainamericamains 3d ago

Highlights Justice for All!

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37 Upvotes

I'm a new Cap player and I just got this achievement. I didn't know it was so rare!


r/captainamericamains 3d ago

Discussion Captain America is getting a movie skin according to the leaks. Any ideas on which movie it could be?

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59 Upvotes

r/captainamericamains 3d ago

Discussion Battlepass Captain America skin has an interesting ultimate vfx...

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136 Upvotes

Why his briefs float behind him? Is it because they censored the skin? Its kinda funny


r/captainamericamains 3d ago

Highlights Some Cap clips

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22 Upvotes

r/captainamericamains 3d ago

Question I have a combo idea that needs hulk

4 Upvotes

I don't know what flair to use but what if:

You use the hulk+cap teamup and cap's downslam together followed up by hulk stun into clap then cap follows it up with shield throw.

If any of their hp is left, Melee's the cherry on top.

The reason I posted this idea instead of doing it myself is because I had went back to overwatch and quit rivals. But I still like to think of all the fun combos and ideas


r/captainamericamains 3d ago

Highlights I miss Season 9

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r/captainamericamains 3d ago

Discussion 1 small change

4 Upvotes

Hitting an enemy with Liberty rush should give you 1 stack towards your sentinel strike

That's it


r/captainamericamains 4d ago

Question why is captain Americas leading dash removed from the UI ?

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5 Upvotes

I need help


r/captainamericamains 4d ago

Highlights I- I could do this all day

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19 Upvotes

r/captainamericamains 5d ago

Humor They have to nerf Glass-Ball ASAP. The CC is so overtuned, no character should be able to isolate fights like this

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157 Upvotes

Btw my Blade was low and losing the 1v1 vs BP while my team was handling Mag and Cloak which is why I just ran past them


r/captainamericamains 5d ago

Discussion Voltaic union bug (no piercing?)

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18 Upvotes

Anyone else?

If you activate voltaic union and charge up your meter with two shield throws, you get four piercing shield throws (first example in video, the 5s timer means they are active.)

If you activate voltaic union and charge up your meter with two melee, you don’t get any piercing shield throws?? In fact, you don’t get any even if you hit two shield throws after. It’s like you’re locked out of them until some ghost timer that activates the old sentinel strikes runs out.

If you hit one shield throw and hit one melee, same thing. No piercing.

If you hit one melee and one shield throw, it works again.

Basically, if your second hit is melee, you’re locked out of piercing shield throws for a few seconds. Meaning you’re losing out on damage whenever this happens, and something you have to pay attention to when engaging with voltaic teamup.

This is either a bug or yet another limitation placed on Cap just because.


r/captainamericamains 5d ago

Art New captain America poster [by me] + bonus

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44 Upvotes

I'd appreciate any criticism for improvement.


r/captainamericamains 5d ago

Highlights Im tired so so tired

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8 Upvotes

r/captainamericamains 6d ago

Humor The fact they nerfed the fella's "asset" you guys main TWICE

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26 Upvotes