From all the agents so far, this is the one that seems the most versatile, IMO. You got your healing, you got your flashes (which from the looks of it, you can control), you got your wolf to track enemies down. She looks like a great addition to the game
One of the ideas behind Skye is that she provides a lot of utility, but is more dependent on her team to capitalize off of it because it requires her gun to be down/has longer re equip times to make self capitalization more difficult.
She’s a great choice for more utility-oriented or supportive players who want to work with their team to enable big plays. A good Skye player who’s in sync with their team can really provide a ton of impact to the game, even if they’re not always on the front lines getting the frags themselves.
Kind of like Breach then?
Would be more effective in competitive play.
Yup! She’s an initiator like Breach, so she’s stronger with allies, but tends to be even more supportive than him overall.
You said in a comment down below that she's an initiator like Breach. Where do you draw the line between Initiator and Sentinel when it comes to giving an agent a class? I could see how she could be considered both.
Sentinels help control ground that your team already owns. Skye doesn't really do that, all her utility makes her somewhat vulnerable in order to push out and take ground from the enemy team.
How does this impact ranked elo gains considering the assist system not supporting utility entirely. Also, it seems assists doesn't seem to impact combat score at all in ranked really.
Some of the ranked updates we've communicated out should help address this!
Then whats the plan for gaining MMR on her if you're not top fragging with a huge score, since currently vision/utility seems to not be as important as playing aggressively.
Some of the ranked updates we've communicated out should help address this!
given that this was the initial idea of breach, and then he was buffed to be better at capitalizing on his own initiations can we expect a similar buff down the line for skye? or any chance of reverting old changes (ie breach buffs, or sage nerfs)?
The intent of those changes was not necessarily to make Breach better at self-capitalization, but just to improve the power and usability of his utility. He can self-capitalize, but it's just not as optimal as setting up for allies, and that's okay. Skye is definitely the hardest initiator to self-capitalize on, but she's also the most flexible in terms of her outputs.
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