Why nerfing Omen isn't a good idea

He is one of the very few non-duelist agent that is fun to watch and to play and that is actually not terrible atm. Skye is fun but it's dogshit, clove is fun (is it even fun to watch?) but it's not good in pro play. Chamber is fun but it's barely picked, same for Gekko. Most init are fun to play imo, but no one is anywhere near Omen in terms of entertainment for the audience and average player. It's not the greatest argument and it doesn't prevent from small tweaks and nerfs, but please Rito don't kill one of the few well thought out and designed agents in the game.
What they should do for now is pbb just delete one tp, make it more costly, then buff other controllers (Astra+Harbor) and see how things go afterwise

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82% pick rate…

Also paranoias op and has no counterplay

it’s not that he’s overpowered, he’s just too flexible
other controllers are too niche and barley picked
if it’s not an astra map, brim map, or viper map, then it’s an omen map
the best way to make other controllers more viable is to buff other controllers and rework omen to make him less flexible and more niche

Also it will kill ranked. No one will play controller besides clove.

They nerfed Yoru after seeing him being picked a lot. Pretty sure they'll do the same with Omen. At least we won't be back with that dreadful Viper Astra comp in 2021. Lord that was annoying.

I just hate how Riot cannot just launch balanced agents at all, it's like they don't play their own games.
Like how Tejo went from the most pick agent to almost not picked at all.
Even if I don't feel like Omen will go through the same path, I'm not confident with how Riot makes those changes. I wouldn't be surprised if they nerfed him as much as they did with Tejo

Omen don't need a nerf, most maps are 50/50 with Omen v Astra and thats ultimately a pro team preference call. Just buff Harbor and Brim to be competitive beyond Bind

You can nerf him without making him less fun... he doesn't need to be too strong to be fun to play/watch.
If they dial down paranoia he will be in a much better spot

The only thing that can counter the 80% pick rate is to buff other agent... no there will be no double controller meta as long as the other that get buff get to omen level..

Like bring back original astra level buff...

Skye is fun?

i disagree

...he does need to be nerfed, i dont even mind his tps so much but paranoia is disgustingly strong

Nerf to 1 specific utility like Paranoia will kill the agent
Riot should smaaaall nerf all utilities
Shrouded step: Max. Cast distance from 15m to 13m, equip time from 0.5s to 0.8s, equip time from 0.7s to 1s
Paranoia: unequip time from 0.7s to 1s, Orb velocity from 16m/s to 14m/s, 32.5m travel length to 28m travel length
Dark cover: Max deploy distance from 80m to 70m
From the shadow from 7 to 8 point

you guys notice how it took 3 seasons of a omen meta for just to give a shit(i think content creators are creating fake problems for content) while we barely tolerated the astra viper meta its because omen is FUN to watch he encourages team fights and contesting map control retaking it etc etc taking back the spike instead of saving actual gun fights instead of who throwss the most util fights which astra makes 10x worse astra is fun to watch as a switch up or on her maps but having omen take the majority of maps is sm better for watching the game
any changes should be slight number changes to his smokes making astra's range more noticeable nerf his smoke travel time to make astra's inssta smokesbetter etc etc

i think the paranoia can be nerfed slightly (but i don't know how), his tps are fine
but more importantly, just buff astra, brim, and clove