good omen nerf ideas?

• 2 TPs to 1 TP
  Makes omen players think more about when to use their TPs effectively. Example would be lotus rubble control, where a lot of omens TP up on top of rubble and then fight for A main space. This position is super strong because with his second TP he can just get out super easily while playing a strong and aggressive position. Also makes pro play double TP with utility combos less powerful.

• short pre-flash windup time with long range sound cue
  Omen flash is probably one of the best pieces of util in the game rn and this gives it slightly more counterplay. Omen can't flash as a dueling tool as easily thanks to the noticeable windup time which leaves him vulnerable to being swung. Still just as useful for exec and counter exec, but easier to play against.

there are no good omen nerf ideas
they dont exist
no omen nerf is good

smoke takes one second less to end
plus 7 seconds to get another smoke
more travelling time for the smoke to reach another part of the map

2tps to 1tp can not happen, I WILL NOT ACCEPT

Shorter smoke duration

just make the paranoia like $350. At least 300 so you can't by the second smoke charge, lights and paranoia all on pistol

this will make the agent unplayable

gotta be a nerf to the blind. TPs are what make omen fun and interesting, ult is already weak, smokes are not the problem (now that one ways are more reasonable). the blind is just an unturnable uninteractive and difficult to dodge thing to deal with and the more co-ordinated your team is the better it becomes

making it 350 would be a reasonable nerf on pistol but for me i would make the path thinner or shorter or make the blind last a shorter amount of time. or for a more complex nerf the duration you are blinded varies depending on how far you are away from the blind when it is thrown - if you are right next to omen you are blind for the full duration but if you are far it's less time

this would still make omen a good agent but just a bit less overpowered given that it is a largely uninteractive mechanic on the blind

just cap the smoke amount to 3 or 4 and make the blind slower and thinner

It’s balanced clove is played in ranked more across all ranks the map meta just favors omen

buff the other smoke characters, brim is ass, astra is weak, harbor is unusable, clove is niche, any omen change will destroy the character since he already has a weak ult

i had an idea for less of a nerf and more of a rework to make omen more niche like the other controllers.
my idea is to give omen less range for smokes, but make him more powerful in compensation
at least 1/2 the smoke range
+4 sec smoke duration
blind travels slightly faster
-1 ult point required for ult

i have no idea if this is a good idea or not, but I do think the best way to "fix" the amount of omen use is to make him less flexible, since that is the main reason he is picked over other controllers

Paranoia cost increased to 400 credits and the nearsight duration decreased
reduce his tp to 1

reducing omen's 2 tps to 1 is already a decent nerf

I think he's fine the controllers except harbour are balanced enough they could maybe buff brim but bind being in the pool we will see more of brim

just don't. Balance (Nerf/buff) other agent, and you will see the creativity some of this teams can do with a balanced agent pool (stop killing one agent)

ye lets nerf 47%wr agent, great idea
paranoia ez to dodge if u not potato
smokes balanced
tps balanced (100years animation+sound)
ulty balanced

Reducing tps is honestly a useless nerf to me it's a lot better to change the blind instead ir just buff everyone else

if u turn the flash, the near-sighted effect is quicker to dissipate?

removing 1 tp is pretty sensible and a good nerf, at times its easier to entry as an omen than some of the duelists

One dash could be good but won't be enough. I hate the tropes of nerfing an agent, let's be real, beside omen and Viper every other smoker is between bad and trash and this is the problem :

• Omen : Up to 5 smokes in the round + 2 TP + 1 Flash
• Astra : If 5 smoke in the round, then no other spells
• Brim : 3 smokes in the round max + 1 molly + 1 stim
• Harbor : lol (I dont need to say why he is currently worst agent even if he receive no nerf since his release, he needs a massive rework)
• Clove : rofl (We need to target nerf soloQ and target up proplay anyway, but Riot don't want that because they want to preserve "identity of the agent")
  Last viable controller release was in 2021, of course he got no concurrences

The reason why Riot don't want to up controller is that they are afraid of double controller meta, but it's inevitable, let's see the options :

• Nerf controller by nerfing everything beside smoke : All dome controller will feel the same and only smoke will be relevant (+ infinite queue time since smoker are even more unappealing)
• Nerf controller by nerfing their smoke : Then you need more smoke to compensate, so doble smoke meta
• Up every other controller : Then controller are too strong and we go to doble controlelr meta
• Release another viable controller (New agent is in 2 week) : you might end up with Omen PLUS this new agent (The same way it did for Viper Harbor)

Smoke is way too important in atk and in defense, Riot is only delaying the inevitable double controller meta that will happen at smoke point in T1 (Even more since that's the more strategic comp, and for T1 this will be master, T2 might be safe by lack of time to prep). Tejo just bought them time, same for Clove and Harbor (release one good agent and it's over), same for Omen being OP and able to have 5 smokes in a round and abilities (Reduce to 3 or 4, and thats the GG, you will lack of smoke in the round and need another smoker)

its easy nerfing omen means making him closer in level to astra you do that but making them go ability for ability so astra keep her as is maybe bring back old suck to make stun/suck more even with paranoia+mobility
omen changes:slower smoke travel time lower range slightly higher then brim,clove but not unnoticeable like right now so astra's global presence is more clear via insta smokes and util help across the map
astra changes: nothing tbh maybe stun buff any suck changes can bring back viper astra we dont need viper astra back

lets be real tho omen is fun to watch astra is boring to watch whatever changes should result in:2 astra maps 4-5 omen maps 1-2 brim maps on rotation obvi and 0.5 clove 0.5 harbor
any changes should only add variety or another fun aggro smokes agent any agent that slowss down the game and has majority denial abilities isnt fun to watch viper is only tolerable because of pit fights slightly and mostly lurks astra anchors and has 3 abilities that are denial and a retake ult the fact we are only noticing this now is because omen is fun to watch he encourages team fights and can do sick ass plays

just buff other controllers, thats all

smoke cooldown to 40 seconds so you get 5 smokes per round. now you get 6

i think just buffing other controllers is the move, omen has already been adjusted so much; i think reverting some of the astra cooldowns, removing team slow on the harbor wall, and then either making brim smokes two regenerative ones or giving him four would be really good balance for the controllers imo.