There are a lot of ways to balance her but it would make her less fun. Because basically no lie:
Her passive is fly letting you get above heads to shoot down easy
she has area effect stun missiles
she has redeploy AND reveal meta whenever she drops
That’s really too much for one character. Think about that and compare to Path (who i dislike but this is about balance)
I would take away both reveal and stun completely. And yeah, that’s right it’s less fun. But fair.
@hayhorOK, but, it does not really account for Valk specifically if you play like (for the lack of a better word, sorry) a coward while using Caustic. No other legends let's you hide like he does, so unless you play like that, what else is there? Unless you play Watson or some weirdo no one uses really.
@Sand_spitter I always thought Valk was strong because of her Ultimate. Being able to easily avoid the ring/gatekeeping teams and safely land is fairly strong in a BR. In an actual fight she's good around buildings and meh anywhere else. I see her as the opposite of my old flame Gibraltar. So-so in a fight but great at escaping which is so valuable in a game where being the last survivor = winning.
I agree with @E9ine_AC , i'm really not seeing the issue here. A Valk using her jet is so easy to shoot (unless a pro main is using her), her tactical is easy to avoid in almost all situations. The strong thing is her ult, it can reposition your team easily, but it's not like a game winning ability. You can't use it in the middle of a fight (it'd mean instant death) and it's pretty much useless in last 2 rounds. So it's a key factor especially when you're out of position but it's situational.
So personally i think she's balanced, STRONG, but not op.
I have to agree with @Cro_pittt and @E9ine_AC, even though I play her now that even if it sounds super op with her kit, its not that good in reality. Tactical is only good for the stun above silver rank in lower rank it seems like everyone thinks its a gibby ult or something, and above plat its insanely hard hitting with it. The ultimate is good, esp in low level ranked, in high level ranked it might be a good escape when heat hits in but you get beamed, jumped and minced fast. The passive is super convenient and good for repositioning, this is the main reason I play her, because im lazy and I like her passive. If you look at the pickrates shes fairly high because she still got season 11 numbers, this season shes lowering and loosing popularity steadily, same you got a small boost in low levels since she was given for free to eveyone logging in.
Check her avg ranked rank, its not even gold level, so the opness dont really flaunts itself in the statistics that is available on 3rd party sites. For me a well played pathfinder or octain for instance is a 100 times harder to kill and chase then a valkyrie. I cant say my kd changed with valkyrie, I seem to get avg higher damage on gibby or wraith which been my earlier mains before season 12.
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