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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

You cannot :( Unless the top five players on your team have the same average mmr from the start of the season, you won't be able to invite anyone new to the team (even players who left 1s ago). This is an unfortunate pain point that we're hoping to address soon, but I'd suggest not removing players from your roster after you've played your first match. We know this absolutely sucks and we're hoping to improve it soon.

fair point, added "in some ways" wording.

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