Reworked Horizon Q this season

so when the collection event for horizon and alter came out, they also brought an update with it, within this update was a lowkey horizon lift rework that completely broke her as a playable character, and I need to explain how awful it is;

So since tap strafing got removed on controller (which I accepted) I switched to playing horizon as she is the only legend in the game with the passive being that she can turn in the air (just a basic movement mechanic in the game that gives you more freedom to move, and chain wall bounces and be able to have effective movement) 

I never liked her q, or her ultimate as it’s very cheesy and in the earlier seasons her lift was beyond broken, I am aware that they tried nerfing it, reverting it, nerfing it even worse and so on, they honestly didn’t know how to balance her q as controller players would complain about the immediate verticality she was able to have mid fight, but last season, THEY ACTUALLY DID IT, they made the lift finally perfect, not too slow, and not too fast.

this made horizon a fair competitive legend as she was able to still be shot out of the air if you didn’t try your hardest strafing around while you were in her q, it made sense, she wasn’t the go to choice, she was just a balanced legend with the ability to move better than most legends if you were a controller player, so much so that a entire community of controller players who mastered airstrafing and playing horizon correctly emerged, (people like zerbow; the YouTube content creator)

anyway, so here we are in season 23, with her shadow q rework, it now is so broken and bugged, that I can’t play her as a character, not because her q is too fast, or too slow; it’s because her q is now inconsistent (because of this bug that im about to explain) 

now, whenever you put her q down, you either;

- spin around like CRAZY, like it looks like you are neo strafing in the air, and on high ping you rubber band so bad, that you’re basically teleporting around and are not able to aim at anything.

OR 

- you lose ALL ABILITY TO MOVE IN THE AIR,

- so you go straight up, and are not able to air strafe (basically removes her passive when using her q) 

AND 

either q’s you get, you also don’t float out of her lift anymore, there’s no arch to her exiting her q, so you now can’t even get up to places you once were able to, or you also can’t enter her q back up when you’re going down because you have less time to adjust yourself back in her q, (and yea if you get the q with no airstrafing abilities you’re just going down in a straight line so it makes it even harder to enter her q back up. 

And the reason no one is talking about it or complaining about it is because

1) Zerbow hasn’t come back to apex since last season (when he does he will 100% throw up)

2) a clip of leamonhead using her q went viral, after the recent tap strafing nerf (that was reverted) where he puts down her q, and the one of the two ways it could’ve gone, the q he put down made him spin around like a tornado so he immediately reacted like it was the most broken thing ever, which isn’t even his fault, how was he supposed to know the q would be different every time. 

horizon as a legend is inherently known to be hated because of her earlier seasons when she was extremely broken, and it scarred people so bad that it built a reputation towards horizon users till this day, and seeing leamonhead react like that to her q, just really puts a nail in the coffin when it comes to this legend, to a point where if you don’t play controller, and play horizon for her passive, you hate running into her no matter what. 

I read the patch notes for this too, and they said that they tried to make her lift more “fair” with a better sound queue, which I didn’t have a problem with at all, because sometimes people enter the q and you don’t hear them at all, so I thought it would be a great change, but this… this isn’t even play tested…

this is absolutely insane. I just had to stop playing her. 

please revert her q back to season 23, you’re going to lose an entire community of horizon controller players who just want to be able to airstrafe. Her q was perfect, the most balanced I had ever seen. add the sound q if you want, but please for the love of god fix her q.

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