That's a big number, wow

Ngl I can genuinely see Liquid making a run, depending on how much chem they've built this offseason

HenBabyH, thenutoriousPRO, swvyboi1, sentinelmain377, and localkoolkid, to name a few

More damage (almost double), slows dashes like concuss and Sage slow, and the vertical height was decreased so you can't put it in cracks in the wall anymore

Definitely go Valiant Hero (monkey king)

I don't want that kinda money and I don't want to stream nor go pro

Best Valo player in my region. I don't play Counter-Strike and frankly being the best in the world at something would give me way more attention than I would be comfortable with

Anoymouse my OG goat

Not exactly a clip but there's something so iconic about nAts clutching any random 1v3 on Viper Icebox in 2021 by lurking into the most random place on the map

You better get on it bud

How'd you forget an entire region

Which crashies 1v3? The only Ascent clip of his I remember is the Frenzy ace

THE MAN CAN DO NO WRONG!

BLEED? What's that? 🙂

I agree, buff Harbor :3

I agree, but then again, the pickrates speak for themselves

Why are you like this

Don't worry, Team Secret fans can relate

Not my favourite but you definitely won't find anything better for that price range, at least not in a very long time. Definitely go for it if you want a new phantom :)

Easily the best night market I've ever seen

She's all done running 😔

https://i.imgur.com/x4FieuV.png nvm I'm goated

1. Sova goated
2. Recon OP
3. Colombia to the rescue? (probably not)

She's still gunning for ya!!

Yes, it is just you

...and I think most people would agree.

But then... why is it that Sova's pickrates look like this?

Ascension Americas: 58%
Ascension EMEA: 70%
Ascension Pacific: 43%
Ascension China: 57%
GC Champs: 60%
TEN Invitational: 75%
FGC Invitational: 65%
WALL-E Cup: 71%
Gwangju: 69%
SEN City Classic: 58%
Red Bull Home Ground (main stage only): 63%
Spike Nations: 52%
Radiant Asia: 80%
Shanghai Masters: 50%
Spotlight EMEA: 72%
Spotlight Americas: 71%

Now, this could just be the map rotation—Abyss, Ascent, Haven, Pearl, and Sunset are all Sova maps, and we're rotating two of them out for Lotus (not a Sova map) and Fracture (let's see how much damage EG did).

But when the pickrates for an agent are that high, it's usually not just an issue with the map pool.

The simple fact is that recon initiators are very very powerful, and almost necessary in the majority of team comps. And on top of that, much more teams are opting to play Sova than Fade—not just on Sova maps (fair) but also on maps where they can both work very well, such as Pearl and Sunset.

I wonder how this will change in 2025. Who knows? Maybe we'll get Sova nerfs or Fade buffs. Maybe recon as a concept will be nerfed somehow. Or maybe the new Colombian initiator will be another competitor to Sova and Fade (though looking at Riot's track record with new agents recently, probably not).

😭 what.

Pacific 9/10
EMEA 4/10
Americas 3/10

https://i.imgur.com/Twcbm6t.png
All I'm gonna say is one of them looks a lot shadier than the other

When they were top 4

He hasn't technically been announced yet

It's because TenZ retired and C9 dropped moose

There are 2 Canadians in EMEA now with koalanoob and florescent, though, so that's cool to note

Yes, the ult should stun, flash, nearsight, decay, vulnerable, suck, reveal, suppress, and detain you, as well as disable your primary, secondary, and knife... all while deleting System32 in the background

I miss LOUD 2023 😔

They then proceeded to 2-0 MIBR shortly thereafter (on map 1, which was MIBR's map pick, EG won 13-2 and C0M went 15/5)

My Chamber Sunset goat

My rough ideas are:

• High Tide (E) cooldown decreased from 40 >> 30 seconds
  • Why High Tide has a longer cooldown than every other smoke in the game is beyond me (I get it's a wall, but Viper wall also has a shorter cooldown).
• High Tide (E) maximum distance increased from 50 >> 65 meters
  • This change would open up a ton more positions where Harbors can now play but still comfortably smoke for the team.
  • On smaller maps, this might also mean Harbor can lurk, depending on the situation.
• High Tide (E) is no longer visible to enemies before it's fully deployed
  • Essentially this means the line that's drawn on the floor when you cast High Tide isn't visible to the enemy team until the wall goes up. This will make it a LOT harder to tell where Harbor is walling from (it won't make it impossible to tell, as high level players who are used to Harbor will know where walls are thrown from, but let's cross that bridge when we get to it).
• High Tide (E) and Cascade (C) slow changed from 30% >> 0% for allies and 30% >> 50% for enemies
  • This is self-explanatory. Water should slow you down a noticeable amount, but your abilities shouldn't negatively affect yourself or your allies.
• Cove (Q) cost decreased from 350 >> 300 credits
  • Cove is genuinely one of the strongest abilities in the game for pistol round, but the problem is that no one ever opts for it because they'd rather buy a ghost. This will fix that (plus it's a nice quality of life change).
• Reckoning (X) stun windup decreased from 1.35 >> 1 second
  • Stun is very easy to dodge right now. I get that's not the primary objective of the ult—that would be the information it provides—but a tier 1 level player can dodge the Harbor ult and get a multikill in the process, which is definitely not good (I don't have any clips of this, but I remember seeing this several times, mostly in Icebox games).

Note: Anderzz (FNATIC's guy for figuring out new maps) actually had a really cool idea for Harbor's High Tide and Cascade, where he thought bullets could have their damage reduced or maybe even become inaccurate when going through Harbor's smokes. The idea was to try kill two birds with one stone, countering the spam meta while buffing Harbor at the same time. But I think that's a bit far-fetched for now

Also hello, resident Harbor main, nice to meet you :)

Interesting ty
Kinda just seems to me like a regular hyping-up-the-player tweet

For ghost I 100% recommend Valiant Hero

Haven't seen it. Can you link?

Derke was as much of a midrounder as crashies is from what I've heard

BOING BOING BOING BOING BOING BOING BOING BOING BOING BOING BOING BOING
Ruination Guardian is peak VALORANT sound design

The Phantom is my favourite Primordium skin, and the Vandal my least favourite. To each their own, I guess.

Neptune Spectre at 1K VP is a pretty nice steal tho

+1

That's a curious one. Never heard it before

You should try contacting Riot Support: https://support-valorant.riotgames.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

That I'm unsure of. It'll probably be different depending on the patch and how major it is, if I had to guess

I don't have the link but they did say they're doing it every act

Jan-Feb: Kickoff + Bangkok
Mar-Apr: Stage 1
May-Jun: Stage 1 Playoffs + Toronto
Jul-Aug: Stage 2 + Stage 2 Playoffs
Sept-Oct: Champions
Nov-Dec: GC Champions

The only thing I'm unsure about is whether or not Stage 1 Playoffs will be on the previous map pool or not, since it is in very early May

Based as hell

Who's your favourite player kalayavan?

They said they'd be doing a map pool change every act from now on. So for pro, it'd most likely look like this: https://i.imgur.com/lzIF7M4.png (green lines are map changes)