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Perhaps a stupid question so apologies, but when people say to watch radiant streamers/pros to learn, what exactly am I looking for?

Generally watching streamers you'll pick up on how good players communicate or work the map. Honestly, even in high rated ranked play people generally still play pretty loose and rotate really quickly and just go straight to the action.

Are there any educational streamers that explain everything they are doing and why? Back in my league days, I learned the most from streamers that would explain everything (like Bwipo or Alois) but I haven't found a valorant equivalent.

There are some but generally video content is better for this for valorant. It is very hard to explain everything you're doing live in an FPS game where you need to be focused on your crosshair.

How do I know what decisions to make?

If you play actively and think abo...

Basically the technical backend of Gekko's dizzy doesn't use the traditional flashbang overlays which are easily filtered out by the observer setting and require a specific art setup that would require reauthoring both the flash application functionality and the art assets themselves, which would already be a super tight/painful timeline for the champs patch. We always want to keep the champs patch light on ability functionality changes anyways to avoid bug risks and painful cross-timezone overtime if something were to break and we only find out about it overnight.

I'm not an engineer so I can't get more detailed than that without potentially spreading misinformation.

Yup we've added this to our backlog to get fixed at some point. It is a larger scope rework to do than you'd expect unfortunately.

Pretty much. When making this change it was a discussion around:

"should we remove Omen's ability to pick up the spike with ultimate???" and I didn't really feel like that change was necessary as Omen's ult is pretty fair and niche anyways. It felt like a bug how you had to cancel the ability to do the thing you were intending to use the ability for in the first place.

It's a bug, we're working on it! Apologies.

Phoenix's "heal off of his own fire" is also technically a passive!

This is a clove bug that we're working on fixing for next patch.

Thanks for the report!

Alerted the proper QA authorities, thanks for the report!

Yeah, you're right - these apply to all flashes in the game.

Yes, he does. This is more intended as a pattern adjustment and then we'll follow up if we need to buff him up a bit for ranked.

KAYO is 2s on the current live patch as well.

Technically Yoru does have the longest flash in the game at 3s, but that's on his clone getting popped and not his Blindside.

/u/pojobob,

I will write you a formal apology letter if this is a big overnerf

mods, i give u permission to ban me if i bamboozle

Chamber's slow nerfs were targeted mostly as a consistency thing - 10 second slows are exceptionally painful, especially when they can proc multiple times throughout a round from Tour de Force. I don't personally expect that much statistical movement as a result of that specific change, but it's still a change worth doing given no other slow in VALORANT is that long, so it's likely excessively frustrating for power that doesn't necessarily need to be there.

This is correct, it is this & not the overall map distance he can travel.

This is correct. LCQ is the first patch of VCT that will have Phoenix changes

We actually do have data analysts who are very good at this kind of work and are extremely helpful. :)

oh no to be clear balance changes are very much still coming soonTM, I just didn't want people to think I'm coming after characters' kneecaps or anything - "destroying chamber's career" makes it sound like a mafia hit lol

I won't balance with a hammer right before Champs (or hopefully at all). I'll be shipping more balance changes in general over the next coming months but these are a lot of the obvious changes that likely should have shipped alongside the trap change in 4.09.

nah