VALORANT gives a various roster of 23 brokers and counting, most of that are well-designed characters protecting the meta spiced up. Sadly, not all brokers are excellent. Whereas fairly a couple of of their kits yearn for reworks, one duelist sits on the prime of the record of lackluster brokers, regardless of being a preferred choose in ranked. Now, gamers are reminding Riot that they’ve some fixing to do.
In a protracted Reddit put up dated June 25, a VALORANT participant named Snotax vented their opinion on how Reyna, the kill-driven duelist, continues to be “straight-up unhealthy for the sport.” They highlighted her one-sided equipment, which isn’t good for something apart from fragging and gives no group worth.
One could argue that Reyna boasts an extremely excessive choose fee in VALORANT’s ranked pool, which is predicted as a result of her impartial mechanics and easy equipment. Be that as it could, in professional play, she is totally ignored, carrying a near-zero p.c choose fee.
This statistic alone highlights her unbalanced state within the meta—an agent ought to be capable to thrive in professional play in addition to it does on ranked. It’s additionally price noting that whereas Reyna enjoys a sky-high choose fee in decrease elo like Silver and Gold, her reputation diminishes considerably as we transfer up the ladder.
Upon climbing the ranked ladder and gaining expertise, gamers study the significance of group play, and Reyna simply doesn’t match that requirement. She additionally appears oddly unbalanced and too overpowered in some eventualities.
Snotax additionally acknowledged how unfairly highly effective Reyna is within the arms of a smurf or a hacker as a result of her extremely environment friendly self-healing capacity. “The smurfing drawback is unhealthy as it’s, however when you’ve got a man that’s a number of ranks above everyone within the foyer with the power to heal after a kill or dismiss and get the ult each second spherical, it’s one thing else,” they mentioned.
As anticipated, a number of VALORANT gamers echoed Snotax’s emotions, urging Riot to deliver some modifications to the Radiant soul harvester.
One participant highlighted the problems with Reyna’s Empress Final and the way it’s “irritating” to play in opposition to an agent who can turn out to be invulnerable and luxuriate in lowered time-to-kill (TTK) in a first-person shooter sport. “I felt this after I converted from CS:GO, and I nonetheless really feel this now often,” they mentioned.
Typically, gamers referred to as for modifications to Reyna’s Devour capacity, which will be exceptionally highly effective in pistol rounds. After all, it’s potent provided that you get a kill, however should you do, you may enhance your well being as much as 150 HP quickly—no different agent can heal past 100 HP.
There’s additionally no debuff to harvesting a soul orb—Reyna can proceed to heal and take fights on the identical time—one other characteristic gamers don’t need.
Gamers simply aren’t able to embrace a self-centric agent in a team-based sport like VALORANT. Reyna’s Leer can supply some group performs, however it’s one of many weakest blinding skills within the sport. Rightfully, gamers need Riot to buff her Leer to make her stronger in her precise position: taking area as a duelist.
Reyna’s equipment appears extraordinarily poor for now, and except you’re mechanically gifted, different duelists like Raze and Jett, who’re viable in solo duelist compositions, have far more team-centric skills to supply. In a double duelist composition, Neon, Phoenix, and even Yoru are considerably higher selections than Reyna as a result of their supportive but potent space-taking kits.
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It’s price noting that whereas Reyna is under-picked in professional play, Paper Rex didn’t draw back from utilizing her of their VCT Pacific run. With PRX’s star participant one thing steering her, for some time, Reyna appeared among the best brokers to play on Bind in a double-duelist group composition.
Even Evil Geniuses, North America’s Cinderella group, adopted PRX’s go well with within the third sport of VCT Masters Tokyo grand finals against Fnatic, which was performed on Bind. That being mentioned, she’s nonetheless a uncommon choose within the professional meta, with most groups steering away from her.
Whether or not Riot will heed such neighborhood requests is one thing to be seen sooner or later, however with VALORANT’s seventh duelist gearing up for a launch within the subsequent few months, it appears unlikely.
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