Happy to announce that I’ll be an Agent Designer for VALORANT! 🎉
Loved the game since beta, competed since 2021 VCT Challengers, worked on Game Analysis, and will now join the design team at Riot Games!
Excited to work on balance changes, reworks, and new agents with the team!
@splashxo__ I’m happy to hear that you’ve liked the UI/passive update! We won’t have an expectation of every agent having a passive, only when deemed necessary.
I’ll send your balance feedback to the team too!
@egggperson You’re right that this could limit our balancing options, but movement speed has a significant impact on gameplay and can disrupt player muscle memory.
We feel that small ±5% exceptions to Haste aren’t a worthwhile tuning lever when they can make movement feel inconsistent.
Clove nerf is to make them more consistent with our other agents. We also added Haste and Snapshot as official buffs, and updated our ability descriptions! more passives too!!
Excited for this patch, CHECK OUT THE NEW F1 MENU!!! 🎉
@levantecat I hear your feedback. I hope players understand that while these changes are a nerf, we made them to keep Clove consistent with similar abilities and game rules.
I’ll be keeping an eye on player feedback for Clove following this patch, and I appreciate you sharing your thoughts!