Can we please make it so that only employees who are immortal and above suggest or make any sort of changes in the game? Some changes in this game are so unnecessary and pointless. Like why is there a millionth nerf for Cypher? Why are we making another nerf to the Sova drone meanwhile Harbor has been a garbage champion since release. The more updates we go through in this game, these changes continue becoming more and more random. I understand if a certain agent is super op and you are nerfing it but what is the point of nerfing a decent and balanced agent? On the other side we keep adding agents like Tejo and then make such a big nerf that no one uses it again.
I don't think Riot employees understand what a balanced agent is, every agent needs to be op or just bad. Watch them make another Raze nerf as we speak. Have you considered letting some agents just be as they are and not making useless changes to show that you are working on something. You could use that time to make some actual good changes in the game you know.
If Riot employees used all this thinking in making a decent balanced agent, this game would be in a much better place.
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at least if they reworked her to not leave huge gaps in any comp unless your teammate is actually smurfing i could tolerate it but holy shit as someone who plays a lot of common flex spot agents/roles on different maps, some of whom are better filling than others, getting Reyna Sage that can't even shoot every other match makes me want to pull out my teeth unable to cover comp weaknesses that my teammates just refuse to play around.
Also infuriating she's so common if you like Chamber at all. Leer makes him eat shit almost as much as Iso shield does.
Spycam's dart visuals have been updated so that it's easier to understand the dart's directionality.
https://x.com/VALORANTLeaksEN/status/1937503701838487605?t=Zwrws6GmqpIpEXkXevNrWQ&s=19
So they should just make all the good, unique agents with depth terrible so the braindead players do not have to deal with them, while you are at it just make clove and reyna the best characters in the game, why not!
They are just useless nerfs which do not change shit, they just making good not overpowered characters that have very useful utility kits worse rather than making the characters with niche util kits better, it just makes no sense.
Riot is deadass like "oh nobody is using Harbor? (bc his kit is shit compared to the other smokers), lets nerf the good ones with no problems instead of reworking or buffing him!"
they nerf and buff via stats if they nerfed cypher it means he was doing better then expected in ranked also cypher is annoying asf to play against when u dont have util to break his shit and btw its barely a nerf ur cam should insta break as soon as u hit someone with it
sova is still performing better then fade as recon when fade was made to be even with him probably its probably inflated since he has dmging util
they are working on harbor problem with him is he is actually good at high levels and has a good design players are just too stupid to play with him since they LOVE running thru smokes
also game design experience trumps ur lil red rank know your place any agent made to be broken is broken for a reason the only actual purpose of new agents is to bring hype to the game and people are always sad when agents aren't as giga broken as they look in there trailers
cope seethe cypher deserves all the nerfs cringe ass agent play honest agents like deadlock or KJ
What the hell are you talking about? Most of these changes are for clarity and consistency. Literally nothing changes about Omen, Cypher, and Sova's viability.
And the devs have said multiple times that Harbor is getting a full rework, which is taking longer than expected. It's not just gonna drop in the same patch as quality of life updates.
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