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Here is my take on Neon. She is an agent that honestly shouldn’t belong in a game like Valorant. Her sprint and slide kit feels more suited to a game like Apex Legends. There is even a character there, Octane, who can literally run faster in a similar way to how Neon does. But now that she is already in Valorant, the question is: what can we do about it?
My answer is to simply buff everyone else instead of endlessly nerfing her. I don’t think it’s healthy to keep nerfing an agent every time their pick rate goes up. Players will always have favourites, especially when they watch a pro completely run riot on stage with that agent. Some of that popularity is just hype and player preference, not raw power level. If an agent is truly overpowered, then raising the floor on the weaker agents should be the play. Make everyone feel strong instead of turning the outlier into a clunky mess.
In this case, I think they especially need to buff sentinels, since the meta has already shifted toward double duelist comps. Give sentinels more tools to punish reckless entry, stall Neon’s space-taking, or provide stronger info and traps so that pure speed isn’t always the best answer. If Riot wants agents like Neon to exist, the rest of the cast needs the counterplay and power budget to actually keep up, instead of the game slowly turning into “who abuses movement the hardest.”
Again this is an online discussion. Please feel free to disagree but please stop throwing insults and attacks to each other or even me. I swear I need to make this clear whenever I do a post lol. Some people in this community is not ok in the head.