neon wasnt touched alot and wasn't complained about alot in pro play and ranked until dambi came along and shit on every1, now everyone's saying neons always been broken when she's already been nerfed twice and now some people 4 saying to take away jumping while running?? or making her stun not bounce??? genuinely why is riot listening to these people when MAJORITY of the player base (asc/diamond and below) don't play against these one trick neons, so it's legit just making an agent worse for low ranks and lowering skill ceilings AGAIN just because theres a loud minority of people whose brain heard "neon is broken" when watching some guy analysing VCT and now just repeat it everywhere. neon has been the same for months and only now she's broken??
revisionist
i have never thought neon was OP even in her strongest state, people just refuse to learn how to play against shotguns and her movement
exactly, and after 1 guy complains it gets echoed throughout and then people think, hey I got cooked by neon with a shotgun once, surely she's broken!
BY THE WAY, 50 percent of the waylay neon and yoru "brokenness" could be solved by just buffing other agents like cypher hitting dashing waylay, vyse flash buff, kj alarmbot being faster, sage and deadlock just buffs in general which would all counter the faster play style, but instead of buffing everything so using agents util is still fun, we want to nerf everything just because some people cant handle playing someone that spent time learning and mastering an agent
Valroant playerbase will forget stuff from a day ago if it favours enough peoples narratives
Riot has hired a bunch of glue sniffers for balancing the game. This started when they introduced Tejo and people rightfully complained about util. But post 11.08 all the patches have been dogwater. If nerfing is the direction they want to go forward, this game will die out before they realize it. For a tac shooter they hate to address the problem with shotguns, odin and outlaw.
neon didn't feel broken before because no one played her the way she is played now, and neither was she this popular in ranked until she became popular in pro play. it is not revisionism
she simply wasnt as common as she is now so people didn't care. i legit barely saw neons in my games before her popularity skyrocketed
there are probably ways to play against her and the cancer shotgun playstyle most neons have, but the fact that i have to account for that takes the fun outta the game entirely
i play the game for fun and neon takes that fun outta the game for me. same goes for shotguns and waylay, that's why i want neon gone, banished from this game
neons playrate has been around 4-5% for the longest time, and personally I see neons at the same frequency as I did before dambi. and basically you're saying that because neon is in the game you can't have fun and because shotguns exist you can't have fun. how about the Odin? isn't it just as broken when brawk used it? where's the nerfs?? neon has been in the game for years and even in her most broken stage in 2024 when I think her pick rate was even higher in ranked, and basically nothing about shotguns changed, you didn't hear people complaining as much as they are now. how about people playing neon and waylay for fun? have you thought about that? countering an agent or a way someone plays isn't that hard and doesn't force you to pick your agents around it, like maybe just stand further at the back of site to prevent shotguns due to range advantage? it's the same as buying an op to stop people from peeking mid bro, can't be telling me that it ruins your fun.
i get it bro you like neon
im saying i dont like neon, that's all
the way that agent works completely fucks up my playstyle and the fact that i have to change that to work around a neon is irritating
i suppose me saying i see neons more now can be anecdotal, but i believe most people would agree with me on the fact taht neon is a lot more common now
i find shotguns to be a lot more cnacer than lmgs, but that could just be me. i also see shotguns a lot more frequently than lmgs
i dont like the idea of changing how i play to accommodate for someone else's playstyle 👍
neither do i care about the fun of waylay or neon players that point never mattered to me and neither will it ever, they dont deserve fun
remove waylay, neon shotguns and lmgs and game heals
so ur basically just saying u want the whole game to be centered on ur play style?? also has it ever occured to you that in game adaptations isn't changing play styles but just being smart in game?? what do u want the enemies to 5 man walk into your crosshair every game everytime? some agents counter other agents and that's the point
yes i want the whole game to be centered on my playstyle, that would indeed increase my fun exponentially
i can adapt ingame, that's not the problem, i don't wish to change how i play entirely 👍
and neither is it fun to get stunned then slid on by a guy with a shotgun
what do u want the enemies to 5 man walk into your crosshair every game everytime?
that would be quite ideal
also putting aside my personal preferences, i refuse to believe you think a character like neon should be in a tac fps game
Its definitely way more than it was before, but this has been going on for a while now.
If you wanna go back in time look at the reactions from community, players and analysts when https://x.com/Dambi_vlrt/status/1849412702311272784 happened. We had very similar discussions about if an agent (and gun) should be able to do that.
Mind you neon has gotten 2 nerfs since Miniboo brought her into the spotlight too - so its not new for people to want her nerfed either.
neon was objectively broken near the end of 2024. neon rn is not broken, simply a byproduct of the crazy senti nerfs. she's at a perfect point rn where it genuinely is a skill issue if you either can't play her or against her
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