Killjoy is good only with her ultimate ready and its just like one round per half if u not feeding her kills. Meanwhile her competition have much more useful stuff. Cypher gives his team insane amount of information with every single ability. And viper is just better both as anchor and post plant. Especially after recent buff. And viper's ult also not much worse than lockdown.
Of course its just my opinion and I want to hear other's thoughts
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Kj is kinda weak
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I play kj a good amount and I think you can pull off some pretty cheese stuff with her swarm nades post plant and stuff. Also, her ability to slow down/split up attacker pushes with mollies is really good. Info wise cypher is better but she's in a relatively good place. Maybe a second alarm bot would be cool?
VALORANTisKINDAMEH [#4]i agree. kj is good only on icebox. otherwise cypher is better by far
I would say that ascent is also Killjoys map. Her lockdown locations are Good
Helix_Exton [#3]No range alarm bot would make her wayyyyy better on attack, making her on par with cypher IMO. She is not impactful on attack because of the range requirements, and feels 100% worse to play when compared to cypher rn.
The main problem with KJ is that she feels bad to play because of the range, idc if they need her in another way, but changing how the range works or affects her abilities just feels fucking awful.
Lofibeats [#2]I play kj a good amount and I think you can pull off some pretty cheese stuff with her swarm nades post plant and stuff. Also, her ability to slow down/split up attacker pushes with mollies is really good. Info wise cypher is better but she's in a relatively good place. Maybe a second alarm bot would be cool?
If u want mollies u also can bring viper and got urself free smoke and Giant wall to slowdown pushes. Thats my point - if u need info/lurker u take Cypher and if u need anchor I think Viper is much stronger than KJ right now. Not to mention Viper's mollies is like alarm bot+swarm grenade combined in some sense and also much faster travel time.
CuckLord [#5]I would say that ascent is also Killjoys map. Her lockdown locations are Good
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VALORANTisKINDAMEH [#4]i agree. kj is good only on icebox. otherwise cypher is better by far
I have a feeling that with time and especially on LANs, combination of two information agents (Cypher/Sova/Skye) would be mandatory pick on any map
Sims4proplayer [#9]I have a feeling that with time and especially on LANs, combination of two information agents (Cypher/Sova/Skye) would be mandatory pick on any map
We already see plenty of comps with 2 of them.
KJ is buffed by the maps and agents being released. Right now I'd argue she's on average better than cypher as a base but some cypher mains make the agent much more viable than he should be imo. KJ is picked a lot more now just to combo with Astra with her ult/nades she's also really practical on these big maps. On attack she feels awful this is a common complaint and pretty true because the range on your utility is restricting but the range your utility itself covers is insane. You're sentry can cover an entire choke and your alarmbot covers a lot on its own too.
tldr: cypher is arguably better if you know how to play him but KJ is stronger without any experience and is better because of the combos you can do with other agents
I main killjoy,
What she needs is to have the AOE buffed back to what it was originally. It's the only thing i miss. having to stay with utility is really debilitating in ranked games cos comms are poor and teams are unreliable.
kit wise, she is great. really good post-plant, good on lurks, can clutch well. As long as you have a player or two who actually know what duelists are for and open sites, she can make a real impact.
Helix_Exton [#6]The main problem with KJ is that she feels bad to play because of the range, idc if they need her in another way, but changing how the range works or affects her abilities just feels fucking awful.
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WitLitning [#13]plus brimstone can drop his massive american ass fart laser on KJ’s ult to destroy it.
nobody plays brim past bronze/silver
FireII [#18]nobody plays brim past bronze/silver
very low pick rate yes. his buffs a few months ago did nothing. i doubt he ever gets buffed again which is sad.
PG_newt [#21]killjoy is pretty good on defense with her turret and ult for retake is great. But her nanoswarms are a bit weak, in the sense that they are easy to defend against.
remember when she first came out, those swarms were the strongest ability in the fucking game. impossible to play against
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