Sentinels are doom

Sentinels (role) will probably be less and less meta more the team are coordinated and have more knowledge of the game.

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tldw ;

• Controller are just better than Sentinel on every plan
• Sentinel got the Reyna Paradox, either balance for proplay and broken in soloQ, or balance for soloQ and useless in proplauy
• In defense either sentinel have no counterplay and will be nerf, or will have some counterplay, and a coordinated team will counter it.
• In attack Covering flank is better with a Controller than a Sentinel
• Sentinel will continue to destroy your soloQ

not true at all

sentinels doesnt even have value after great skill nerf

In attack Covering flank is better with a Controller than a Sentinel

can you elaborate on this? bc isnt a cypher trip just way better for passive info than a controller having to watch flank in person?

I think agent bans would be a really good idea atp

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i thought we were discussing s0n

Yes sentinels is doomed This is true

scared me for a second haha! 😅😅

i main DL and Veto with 65%+ wr also with Chamber 60%+ so i think its not the role that obsolete. Its the people that dont know how to play the role properly thats the problem

I feel like Senti has always had a big balancing problem, like rito always makes them too powerful or too weak, like current chamber is practically the only time done it right.

I think this map pool just isn't really sentinels favored at the moment, leading to a very deflated sentinel pick rate. Icebox and Ascent were two maps where sentinels were almost must picks (KJ had a 91% pickrate on Icebox in Toronto, the last major event when it was in the map pool, and vyze had a 68% and cypher had a 32% pickrate on Ascent in Champs 2025), and now they're out of the map pool. Compare that to nowadays where Bind and Split are two of the most popular maps and they always have been maps where double controller no sentinel has always been popular. Plus I think that we are going to see a rise in chamber usage bc honestly I don't think everyone has realized yet that one of the best paths to winning is abusing the outlaw and OP right now and chamber is one of the best agents to enable that.

Maps like Haven and Pearl still do show that sentinels are fairly popular, they just aren't as universal as duelists, initiatiors, and controllers are. Locking down sites is a job that controllers can do on certain maps, but on maps where your defenses are stretched very thin like Haven or Lotus where you have to defend 3 sites or maps with massive and complex sites like Icebox having a defensive specialist who can passively control more ground is very important.

TLDR:
I don't think sentinels are doomed, they just have a shit map pool and are inherently situational

Sentinels will return in Avengers: Doomsday
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I think that sentinels (class) will be completely fine. Chamber's kit is really good for mechanical demons in both ranked and proplay, KJ has good plant stalling potential in both and can control a lot of valuable space with her util, idk anything about veto so im not gonna act like i know what im talking ab w him, sage can slow pushes super easily w orbs, cypher and vyse both need rebuffed, and deadlock as a whole needs reworked imo