Generally a lot shady connections and with very nasty motives.Д¤. Lasombra/Tzimisce - strong political influence, Sabbat, evil ventures. They are also very organized and disciplined.ДЈ.

They have bad rep, but they are power hungry and ambitious and their clan loyalty is great. And God knows when some nasty Ritual will hit you. Fuck with one Tremere - you just got blacklisted by whole Pyramid. Tremere- closest to Venture which gives them edge and very loyal clan. Venture - easily most connections, spies, strongest influence in mortal world, respected, wealthy and with biggest power overall in mortal world. Potence as additional disc would be strong.ДЎ. Their powers however cost **it ton of Blood Points mostly (Celerity and Quietus are both super BP hungry) and you can easy run dry a lot. Their clan weakness is not that bad since it also allow you to commit diablerie all the the because why not at this point. No way to survive that even with 10 Fortitude and 10 successes. Level 2 allows for quite effective putting enemy to torpor, Level 3 for easy agg damage with weapons and Level 5 is basicelly insta-kill to any supernatural being as if used from ambush you can deal even 20 agg damage if you vomit 10 BPs on them. However combining it with Celerity and Obfuscate allows them to kill pretty much every target if not detected before first strike. Assamites (Warrior)- Quietus is deadly but very blood-consuming. Add them some Fortitute or even Potence and you are death machine.ДҐ. Wanna go for diablerie? Just take Path of Grey Hunter. Walk in the middle of 10 guards protecting your target? No problem- kill target, turn to mist- bye! It's imo most OP power-combo-wise clan. While Assamite may dish out more burst damage at level 5 of Quietus- City Gangrel can do everything they do at lower cost and can easily get away after any kill. They are also best traveling vampires as they can always rest during day under ground. Much more effective blood cost for effect (only Celerity really as popping claws is only one point) and can always get in (bat form/mist form) and easy get out (mist form/bat form/hidding in earth). City Gangrel - their combo of Obfuscate + Protean + Celerity makes them better assassins than Assamites (Warriors). Since they are high social figures (mostly)- having aura of diablerie is bad, so you make sure to grab merit that hides your diablerie aura if you want to keep increasing your Generation.Д¤. Their clan weankess is quite nasty and gives a lot of problems. Fortitude allow for stronger defense and it's easy to pick to it Celerity or Potence for some nasty 'I will crush your mind and then gut while you kneel and lick my boots' things. Venture- although Presence is not as strong in V20 as it used to be- Dominate + Presence is a nasty combo especially once you have Possession and your enemies have to constantly spend willpower points to resist your Presence. Not to mention you can craft yourself Gorgoyle later and tweak it with Thaumaturgy Bioexperimentations to have a really nasty bodyguard in your haven.ДЈ. You also don't really need to worry about buying additional disciplines with them. With Dominate they are both strong socially, combat wise and utility wise. And Auspex give them a strong counter to Obfuscate users and Asupex 5 + Taumaturgy allow for nasty assassinations while being safe in spirit world. As long as they can react before their enemies- they can easy dispatch single target.

They have also imo best cost to effect powers in game as even most powerful powers from Paths cost just one blood point. And their Path of Blood 3 can easly make them immune to Dominate and stronger vs Presence very easy if you started at 8-9 gen you can get later on average gen 3-5 easy. Tremere - their clan weakness is pretty much none, they Paths have cheaper costs than Disciplines but they are most versitile clan in setting and a lot of Paths have a power of 6+ Disciplines and can do nasty things and do some scary combos (like Movement of Mind with huge amount if items with Ward vs Kindred on them etc etc.) Paths with Paths and Paths with rituals. Add Celerity and you have nasty thing on.Дў. Evil venture and their clan weakness is not really that bad. I think they have great starting set and it gives them a lot of power. Lasombra - we all know Hentai Death Machine. So power-wise (starting Disciplines etc.):ДЎ. We of course exclude any house rules and we go by RAW only. I am just curious about people opinions/descriptions of clans how do they see it.

Clans of vampire the masquerade