penguinVALORANT

Yes. Too early to promise anything but it's on the radar!

This was poor patch note writing from us and we're planning on updating the patch notes for better clarity here soonTM

The red triangle should accurately represent when a smoke will fall versus stay up.

Will pass this feedback on to the lighting artist who worked on the changes. Glad people are enjoying the changes!

yep

There's a Neon on the enemy team. She likely stunned A link to get into B link to flank C.

Generally agreed, thanks! Will add this to our backlog.

Seems reasonable to me, I'll add it to our backlog of fx improvements.

(Also question why is reynas flash so bad? It literally combines weaknesses of normal&gekko blinds. 1)you can turn away from it. 2)you can shoot it)

Reyna's flash is weaker for a few reasons:

1) It's asymmetric, meaning it does not affect allies. This originally was more of a unique strength pre-Gekko launch.

2) It can be cast through thick walls. Reyna players don't typically utilize this to its full extent imo, but you can do things like flash B on Haven from sewers, or flash for a teammate through other very thick geometry

3) The equip time out of the Leer is very fast, allowing you to swing while it's forming. Other flashes have longer delays to try to incentivize more teamwork.

We were testing some other things alongside these changes for Chamber but given his dominance in the past we opted to tread a little lighter. There are some windows in the future for additional follow up if this turns out to not move the needle meaningfully.

That's a part of being a valorant player. Saying "I'm dead I think" gives you a 50% chance of making the best play you've made that day.

I'll get on adding it to the next patch notes on Monday, would be in 9.04 notes most likely.

Neon can sprint and slide unlimitedly during the pre-round because:

• it's enjoyable to fidget with
• also the slide is also a somewhat difficult learning process on the inputs side, so being able to practice it during low-stakes pre-round is nice

Chamber we've discussed removing his free verticality TPs from in the past, but opted not to given:

• free-pre-round boosting is usually done to defensively posture on angles, (especially with a sniper rifle) which we view as a part of Chamber's defensive profile.

• Also, given that Rendezvous has a cooldown it would be extra punishing if you were late on his pre-round chores or setups and potentially cost him his signature ability, which is particularly painful given he wants to have it for combat in early round barrier-drop fights.

This is correct, this is legitimately my bad (just forgot to add the bugfix to the patch notes). Neon getting 3 potential slides a round is pretty crazy at a baseline (2x slide + ult refresh, even before kill resets) but we fixed some impactful balance-impacting bugs that had always been around while looking into making the Neon changes and some of them had to go out a bit later than 8.11 for QA/testing/engineering review etc

fair point, added "in some ways" wording.

It's actually better in some ways than a Guardian since you move faster with it equipped!

Ultimately, ranked winrates often manifest as characters that have very low costs of failure.

Characters like Clove or Reyna do not meaningfully screw their team over if they are executing poorly. Sure, they can have bad KDs and not perform well, but they are often not actively detracting. A KAY/O player with 0 lineups for knives who isn't communicating any flashes can make the game legitimately a lot harder to win for his team. Omen probably just loses a lot because a lot of his strengths are much better in coordinated settings (playing for retakes with his paranoia or using it for set plays) and he's often playing vs Clove, who is generally a lot easier to play and get value out of, especially for average players in uncoordinated settings.

It's important that VALORANT has some characters that do incentivize teamwork and have long-tail mastery curves around teamplay utility. Characters like KAY/O make the game better for those who are willing to invest t...

gottem

Yep. It'd be a hookup within the fuel system to futureproof it.

This is just a process issue with how our patching process works currently - we'll be working on trying to make sure there are as few delays as possible in the future between updates on the different platforms

agree, will look into it