Bioshock Infinte Vigors Guide: Bucking Bronco

While weapons play a big role in your adventure in the city of Columbia, they aren’t the only thing that can help you reach your final objective in Bioshock: Infinite. Vigors are found during the game and they will too help you in your journey, granting you some special and unique powers.

If you have played the first Bioshock game you probably know how the Vigors work: once obtained, they’ll provide the user with a unique and special ability. Vigors, however, can’t be used freely: being able to do would really break the game and make it way too easy on the standard difficulty setting. Players are able to use Vigors only when they have enough Salts, a limited resource represented by a blue meter found at the bottom of the screen. Even the Salts mechanic is not too different from something found in the first entry of the series: Bioshock veterans will surely remember the Eve. In the end Salts gives power to Vigors, allowing you to use them: an empty power bar means that you won’t be able to use them until you replenish said bar.

There are a total of eight Vigors inside the game: they have two different uses, a basic one and a trap one. To use the regular Vigor just tap the Vigors button; to use the trap version of each Vigors, simply keep the button pressed. Just like regular weapons, Vigors can be upgraded by purchasing modifications at the Veni Vidi Vigor Vending machines.

Also note that all enemies have some sorts of resistance and weakness to certain Vigors: if you can’t seem to defeat an enemy with a specific Vigor in use, make sure to change it to see if the situation improves. The only enemies who doesn’t come with Vigors resistances and weaknesses are the Founder’s Police, the most basic enemy you’ll encounter in the game and the Beasts. All the other enemies may have a normal resistance to Vigors, a 200% weakness, meaning you’ll do double damage to them with the Vigor in use, a 50%, meaning you’ll do half the damage on the enemy with a specific Vigor in use and immunity, meaning that you won’t be able to damage the enemy with a specific Vigor in use.

• Bucking Bronco

The Bucking Bronco Vigor allows Booker to raise the enemy in the air and hold them up for a short amount of time. This will allow you to attack the enemy without them being able to defend themselves. The duration of the Bucking Bronco also depends on the enemy resistance to the Vigor. To make the best use of this Vigor, given its wide effect range, you can try to have more than a single enemy in a straight line in front of you.

Upgrades

• Bronco Aid  $777
• Bronco Boost  $421
• Max Upgrade Cost  $1198