Omen | VLR.gg

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HER01K

Some fascinating stats about omen:

Omen was the most picked agent at Masters Toronto, with a whopping 82% pickrate. Worth keeping in mind that this is higher than

Jett at Reykjavík 2021
Chamber at Copenhagen 2022
Killjoy through all of 2023
Viper at Madrid 2024

In fact, the only agent who has ever had a pickrate greater than Omen at Toronto across all international events is Jett at 86% during Masters Berlin. Clearly, at the pro level, Omen is absolutely disgusting at requires a nerf (though it is worth noting that the present map pool heavily favours omen, with Fracture, Bind, and Breeze all being out atm). However, it's also worth noting that Omen is one of the worst agents in ranked consistently. He currently has a 47.3% winrate, only above the likes of Harbor, Waylay, and KA/YO.

With that in mind, how does one balance Omen? The obvious answer is that his skill floor should be raised and his ceiling lowered, but how exactly would Riot go about that? Or is Omen just the anti-clove, where you're only supposed to use him in pro play but in ranked he's not great?

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buff astra and harbor / any other non-prominent controllers :)

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Harbor needs a fix 100% yes.

Astra tho? Astra's been very serviceable both in pro and ranked play, I fear more Astra buffs would just lead to her being out of control.
Clove can't be buffed without becoming a beast in ranked, so Clove would need a complete rework and probably lose her agent identity.

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agreed, while omen is obviously very strong in the meta, i don't necessarily think this would be an instance of unnecessary power creep, because many of the other controllers are just weak in comparison

omen is strong, sure, but the reason he doesn't feel suffocatingly strong is because he's not broken, they've done a fine job of specifically tuning him, the other controllers just have a niche that's too specific at the moment

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his flash is disgusting but there is no way to nerf it without making it completely useless or an entirely new ability

he's the only controller that can chainsmoke a choke indefinitely (besides viper but thats a different ability pretty much)

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i saw an idea somewhere that said if you're on the outside edges of the flash you get nearsighted for less time
not sure how effective of a nerf it'd be but it's a thought

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i dont think the duration of his flash is the problem its moreso if omen decides to blind your general direction there is no counter play unless youre far enough to recognize his flash is coming and then have the time to move away from it

but in most cases that leaves you out in the open to just get mowed down by all of omens teammates

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How would we feel about making his smoke cooldown the same as cloves?

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HER01K

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I think he still sees a lot of use in pro play, because he's not played for his smokes specifically. It's really the paranoia that puts Omen ahead of the rest of the controller class, and I don't think tuning down his smokes will change all that much.

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The point is to have a substantial tradeoff for the catalytic utility he gets in the form of paranoia. If you want a powerful blind to play around, you should have fewer or slower smokes than compared to Astra, since the range difference isn't all that relevant.

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Yeah, I agree it's a good idea. Not sure if it'll fix the whole problem, but a good start.

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I think it would help the situation in pro play.

In ranked it would kill his pick and win rate compared to Clove but frankly I don't mind. For years this game had the problem of nobody wanting to play smokes, and that agent has made people damn near instalock it.

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Well Astra has strong abilities herself, the only thing is, if you want to use 4/5 smokes a round, you don't get any other utility. Omen can usually use atleast 4 smokes a round plus his blind and tps. He gets the most smokes time up while having absolutely no downsides.

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Simple
No Bind/Fracture No Brimstone (0% pickrate)
Almost 0 Pearl maps in Toronto (Less Astra pickrate)
VCT teams don't like Clove (1% pickrate)
Harbor is shit
Loads of teams picked Viper (Probably had a lot of pickrate but she was picked with Omen in almost every single map, even Icebox)
That's why
Look at the maps played at Toronto every single one of them apart from Pearl is Omen needed

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The flash and tps are disgusting

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the tps are not disgusting
if you're using a headset you'll know its happening and if you have good enough gamesense you'll know where it goes too

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A lot of the players on LAN pointed out it was hard to hear, but that might just be a LAN thing, still

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They already nerfed his skill ceiling immensely by removing one-ways, there's no need to make him have less potential now.