with the amount of nerfs that absolutely crush agent viability, riot SHOULD be buffing agents more to make them in-line with the rest of their class.
If you keep nerfing the best agent in that class, eventually you end up with all of that class's agents sucking. Imagine if sova and fade got nerfed because they are played a lot, there would be like two decent initiators.
Some agents I would buff/rework are: skye, tejo, brimstone, waylay, reyna, harbor, phoenix
how long do you think will it take for your "room temperature takes" to become boring? i hope you don't just start saying the valorant equivalent of "the sky is blue" or "grass is green".
They should buff what makes astra unique (suck/stun) and brim unique (stim beacon) rather than nerfing what makes omen unique (best smokes) over and over again
yeah i completely agree. i also think removing cooldowns is a terrible way to nerf an agent. Not only does it break a long rule about agents (most agents have cooldowns, except duelists which reset on 2 kills), but it essentially means that agent has less overall utility than other agents.
yeah i wish the worst upon the person who decided to massacre skye just because of her flashes being a little strong. now she is unplayable.
real, i think a good test for viability is if you can play that agent alone on any of the maps without another agent from that class
i don't think you could sensibly play skye single initiator on literally any map anymore
also i hate when riot decides to change abilities to make them "more in line with similar abilities", like they're different for a REASON
for example the neon stun/breach stun duration change was awful
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