Re: Valkyrie is Overpowered

@CompleatBeet Is that not overpowered? Each of her abilities are really powerful, and despite her passive and tactical being relatively easy to counter, her tactical in particular is just too powerful. And as for her ultimate, sure, if you get shot while using it it gets cancelled, but the slowing animation only takes a couple seconds, and all you need to avoid getting shot is have a medium-sized rock in your way and you'll make it. And despite it being easy to cancel, if it does end up working, it can be game-changing more than any other legend's ability. Maybe "overpowered" is a bit too strong a word, but I think that either way, her ultimate at the very least should get nerfed.

she isn't really "overpowered", more like " overloaded" with functionalites. I believe this is because Respawn afraid of backlash if people think a new "Asian Women" isn't extremely powerful and would accuse them of racism - meanwhile my boi Fuse is still sitting at the lowest winrate bucket and begging for more buff. She can does literally everything with no significant downsides, from ring hacking, recon, third-party, 1v1 to disengage and get out of jail for her whole team, she can do it all. Her ultimate already proven to be game-breaking at the highest level of playing field. 

Honestly, I don't know how to balance her beside a rework. Her ultimate redefine completely the point of re-positioning and risk-taking while her tactical is way too good. But at least removing the stun effect from her missile would be a good start

@CompleatBeetI disagree, she is indeed overpowered. She essentially has 2 passives and 2 tacticals, in addition to likely the best ultimate in the game. Survey beacons, pinging while flying, jetpack, missiles, and skyward dive.

While you mention the fact that legends like pathfinder or horizon have the ability to gain good positioning, you forgot that these legends need to expend their tactical for their abilities, and then deal with the recharge timer. Valkyrie has the ability to gain good positioning whenever and wherever she wants with just her passive, and still have a super powerful tactical on hand on top of that. She can often reposition so many times during a fight that it lasts well over two minutes sometimes just chasing a valkyrie that won’t stay still.

Speaking of her tactical, it can be used a lot quicker and easier than you make it out to be. And with the stun it’s like an instant arc star every 30 seconds. The problem is it can hit overtop cover, and if you don’t want to deal with the damage or the stun you have to leave that cover, exposing you to be shot super easily. And if you do take the damage, that’s a 3-second stun which makes for essentially a free kill on a stationary target, and even you stay behind cover it at least opens up the opportunity to be hard pushed, fighting a shield level worth of damage down vs. Valkyrie’s team.

And her ultimate, while it can be cancelled yes, you barely need any cover to utilize it safely, and while you’re up there you get a free ping on enemy teams and can position your entire team advantageously instantly. Or when in a fight you can even just straight up leave if it’s not going well or if there’s a third party, or if the ring is closing in (the ring is never an issue with Valkyrie teams, which is yet another problem, it’s like the rest of the teams are playing handicapped). Not to mention she can scan survey beacons and then instantly rotate her entire team to the backside of the next ring, every ring.

But the biggest problem is that all these abilities are on the same character. That’s too much for one legend to have, and her 98% pick rate in ALGS is proof of that. Gibby is now 70% by comparison, with no changes to his kit, and he was 100% last ALGS. This is essentially to say Valkyrie is proven way stronger and more valuable than Gibraltar, who used to be the best character in the game no question. But he hasn’t changed at all, Valkyrie just has that much of even better tools available.

Truthfully, I love playing valk right now, but I will say that I easily stomp on other players with her more than any other. That being said, I could see this as both an issue with her kit being superior to everyone else's, and the fact that everyone else's kits need to be adjusted to her level. The simple solution would be to nerf her passive fuel usage and ult CD. The true solution would be to bring up other characters to her level, especially those with a similar kit/ playstyle.