Thanks for saying that, I need to make it clearer in the guide why I would ever keep protector contract around 20 minutes into a game. Basically, I only keep it if I'm trying to buy something like echo. Vooid battery is the item Im required to buy if I don't have the gold to just straight up buy echo.. but I'd rather have protector contract still over a void battery. In most cases, I will sell the contract before 17 minutes though

Additionally I think that Protector Contract is redundant with Ardan. He has Vanguard, in my opinion the 300 gold would be better spent elsewhere. I'm not a fan of Protector Contract in general, but I could understand the argument for certain captain characters. In my opinion Ardan and Phinn are two that don't need it as it's built in to their abilities. It's not really about being "tanky" either because I could even understand an argument that Catherine could benefit from it because outside of her stun she really has no way to protect her teammates or help them escape, and even her stun is enemy focused and doesn't help a teammate that is taking damage from multiple targets, as where Vanguard is an escape and a barrier built into one.

Good point, I'll emphasize that when I update the guide