I think Kaplan said it best on Twitter. Omen isn’t good enough to compete with Astra if he’s limited to one-ways that Astra and Brim can also do, especially when a buffed KJ and Cypher is forcing a more default-heavy meta that also takes away value from his flash. There needs to be more oneways added to maps or this nerf needs to be reverted.
Rest assured we're aware that this is an Omen nerf and we're in the early stages of exploring if there are any buff opportunities to compensate for this (but I can't make any promises - we want to see what the impact of this change is). We felt that the "inside walls red arrow" one-way smokes were unintuitive and unintended, and that we'd rather tune Omen around more accessible and intentional gameplay going forward.
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