Nah even in close fights i still think vandal is better, with players like derke who can show full potential of vandal, its absolutely insane. He literally was winning every 1v1, but yeah spraying on smokes with vandal is pain
It all depends, I usually play one game using both and seeing how I perform with each one and pick for the next. If I'm not feeling good during the next games, I swap them
Vandal on attack and phantom on defense, if I'm playing smokes then I just play phantom
Sometimes I play vandal on defense too if I wanna get aggro and know that I'll peek something off the start, also picking up vandal if I'm on light armor