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That's not a bad thing

Sure, everyone

It's always "x is so bad" and never "y is so good" 😔😔😔

I agree that experimentation with this kind of thing isn't generally good, but is hiding tweets like that not what should've been done in any case?

Very fair input

In what world would a PR team say "we would have named the person, but unfortunately we can't because it's against the laws"??

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it's been a span of over 4 years since we've gotten a case of this scale. Who's to say the next case will come any sooner than 4 years? If Riot don't make the correct PR moves now, not only would they not get to amend themselves for years, but they'd just receive the same backlash as sinatraa's case in the long term anyway.

I agree that Riot should consistently make good, professional PR statements, but do they not have to start at some point? Yeah, it's a coincidence that florescent happened to be the first of these statements, but until we get another statement-needing case then I'm willing to give the PR team the benefit of the doubt

Agreed. But that's a topic that deserves its own thread, to be honest

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I hadn't thought of that, thanks for bringing it up. These are exactly the kinds of things people fail to consider before being overly judgemental.

Regardless, though, it shouldn't take children's privacy laws for Riot to do the sensible thing when it comes to matters like this, and I hope their PR team continues to make professional statements from here on out

This makes a lot of sense, and I fully believe that Riot should be making an apology statement for sinatraa's case (frankly, it should have been made long ago). However, I think it's unlikely that Riot has the same PR team that handled that case four years ago, and I don't believe it's fair to them to be receiving this kind of backlash for what should be a well-put statement on the matter.

I'm not sure... these are the only two cases I've heard. In any case, though, this is the most recent case where they've had to make a public statement. If they're now making the changes, then isn't that a good thing? It'd be hypocritical to look down on the statement that was made for florescent, at least until another similar case has a statement made about it, at which point it can be determined whether this is a PR fix or an edge case—but frankly, why wouldn't you give them the benefit of the doubt?

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Riot comes out with their statement about sinatraa on March 10th, 2021.

For a very long time, people have been ridiculing this statement. People have talked about how this was a poor approach from Riot, how this was very unfair to the player involved, and how they should have handled things entirely differently.

On May 18th, 2025, which is today, Riot comes out with a statement about florescent which fixes the vast majority of the issues the community had with the statement about sinatraa four years prior, the biggest ones being a) referring to the player in question by name and b) launching a full investigation prior to taking consequential measures, such as suspensions.

The community response: why isn't florescent getting the same treatment as sinatraa? Why aren't we naming the player being investigated in the official statement? The community is choosing to protest the exact changes they've been asking for.

If you're one of the ones protesting: what the heck do you want them to do? Is this not exactly what you asked for?

I genuinely can't comprehend the community around VALORANT esports at times.

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Mb I forgot Paper Rex made it. 2-2-1 should be the numbers

I get where you're coming from

It is important to understand that Harbor's in such a bad spot right now as an agent that even if you're a great tier 1 controller, it's not easy to look like one when playing Harbor. He's arguably the hardest agent in the game to find consistency with, and also arguably the agent whose mistakes can most easily be punished. This is part of why many teams unfortunately hesitate to run Harbor, and also why so many are quick to blame Harbor for a team's losses (Karmine Corp being one example)

Hey, sometimes you just shoot them and it works. TSM had 8 first bloods on defense

TL VIT FNC NRG PRX

1 of these teams is at Masters Toronto
3 of these teams are out of the running
And the one he's on is a map away

I agree that he's better than his team's average this year, but if you're gonna suggest a replacement team, then at LEAST pick one that's doing better than his current

Solo Harbor also isn't trolling. Just because no one's playing it doesn't mean it's not a decent idea. Viper is great at stalling and creating question marks around the map, but given that TSM are picking Gekko + Harbor + Sage, it's very clear that their gameplan revolves around planting/defusing the spike, and if they need to sacrifice Viper's benefits for that, then so be it.

TL;DR: if a team is running something unorthodox, playing a composition that you don't understand, it does NOT mean they're matchfixing. Even if they don't win

They're running Harbor Viper 😭

M80 picked a meta comp, what are you talking about

You're honestly just coping, bao would NOT being doing THIS if M80 had money on the game https://youtu.be/THeDRm9dZPU?t=13923

Telling FNATIC of all teams to "do something in an international" is crazy

https://www.vlr.gg/event/2095/champions-tour-2024-americas-stage-2

Reminder that EG was one game off Masters and made it further than both NRG and 100T

Why is he getting downvoted for asking a question?

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Yep! It would be minimap—which is normally how you'd control Harbor walls currently, anyway.

And yeah, semi-global utility is part of the idea! Harbor is the only controller in the game who can't lurk (at least to some extent), and that's one of the issues I tried to tackle with this rework.

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I get the sentiment but this is less about getting perfect walls every time and more about having more flexibility with where you can wall.

Just to clarify, when you click on the map, you're setting your start point. You still have to curve the wall like you usually do, and it's gonna be easy to mess up some walls if you're not experienced with him. And yeah, of course you're still gonna have the creativity you usually get with Harbor walls... if anything, this'll only add more creativity because you can do a lot of things you couldn't do prior.

That's the idea. The skill floor will always be high with Harbor... that's something about his kit you can't really fix, simply because of how unintuitive non-dome smokes are to most VALORANT players. However, I think these changes would lower the skill floor by allowing people to more easily manipulate the start/end of his High Tide, as well as give him a higher skill ceiling because of the creative new ways you can use his utility. It's not a perfect fix—no first wave of fixes in VALORANT will ever be perfect—but I think it's worth a shot.

I've seen a lot of people share their Harbor change ideas, so I've decided to share my own.

For a bit of context, I've been playing Harbor for 2 full years (190 hours/340 matches in ranked). I've been feeling Harbor's weaknesses since day 1, and have been advocating for Harbor buffs for almost a year now. I've even submitted a ticket asking if I could help with the changes—to which I was told they wouldn't accept my ideas because of their Terms of Service (not sure why I can't at least give ideas, but I digress).

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• Major rework (deployment of utility)

  • Pressing E/C/X → right click opens a map (around the same radius as KAY/O ult)
  • Left click on the map to deploy the rotating orb on Harbor's gauntlet
    • Takes about 0.5 seconds to deploy
  • This orb will be the origin point of High Tide/Cascade/Reckoning
  • The orb can be recalled using F (similar to Astra stars)
    • 0.5 second recall animation
    • No cooldown on the orb (can be repositioned as soon as it's recalled and press E/C/X → right click again)

• Minor additional rework (team/enemy slow)

  • Slow effect is removed entirely from the wall/cascade
  • A 0.5 second hinder effect is added for enemies passing through
    • As with the current slow, the hinder will be in place as long as you're in contact with the wall/cascade

• High Tide (E) updates

  • Cooldown reduced from 40 >> 30 seconds
    • This puts it in line with the smokes of currently meta controllers (e.g. Omen)

• Cove (Q) updates

  • Cost decreased from 350 >> 300 seconds
    • This lets you buy Cove with a Ghost on pistol rounds (very useful, can single-handedly win pistols)
  • HP increased from 500 >> 700
    • Cove is broken too easily to find value in a lot of instances, especially when multiple enemies are alive. This change aims to amend that

• Reckoning (X) updates

  • Stun windup decreased from 1.35 >> 1 second
    • This makes Harbor's ultimate not as easy to dodge, and gives it more guaranteed value beyond soft recon

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If you have any questions/concerns/feedback, feel free to let me know. I'll try to respond to everything 👍

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Is it otaQ or Peloncito? I'm confused

Anyone know who it is? Thanks

If I'm LEVIATÁN I'm making two budget signings, kinda coasting through the rest of the season, and then promoting my entire academy team for 2026

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I dislike this immensely. Who would mw realistically replace, anyway? keznit is a more proven duelist, adverso is the igl, and Shyy is objectively better at sentinel.

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Idk might be a boblobwob alt

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Unfortunately true 😔

I'm gonna be honest, the evidence was so blatantly wrong I thought it was satire (would be really funny if it is)