Valkyrie is broken and you know it
'Nuff said.
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Lots of complaining in here but not one suggestion on how to balance her.
So as an actual valk main for a season or so now I'll go first.
The only way I see is to speed up the amount of jet boost used at a time or slow down the regen on it.
The rockets never bothered me at all when I wasn't playing her and I can say from playing her they aren't that good. If you die because of them that's your fault.
Her ultimate likely needs a longer cooldown. My friends are amazed how fast I get it back.
@hayhorYeah yeah, says the Valk main who had lots of wins at her expense while saying nothing in the meantime...
She can FLY. Enuff said.
No other legend had this ability ever and even lesser abilities were cried about. She can move a whole team across the map, literally. As I recall you were opposed to Wraith doing a fraction of this, but since you main Valk it wasn't a real issue until someone brought it up? Lol, come on dude.
You seem like a good guy, and I personally like you, but really, as a top xp author, do you and your friends actually listen to yourselves?
Here's a better idea, instead of nerfing Valk, buff everyone else to keep up?
Though the current pick rates don't indicate her being super broken...
https://apexlegendsstatus.com/game-stats/legends-pick-rates
She's top 4, but then everyone else drops off sharply. That both indicative of the sheer number of legends, and the fact that in a game about mobility and shooting, no surprise the top 6 have buffs to their mobility. The only one that doesn't is Bloodhound (except in Ult) but his kit makes him too good in the wallhack meta.
Also, Valk's "flight" is slow unless bursting, which limits range. Any valk on a long flight is a really big clay target waiting to be shot down.
I say "flight" in quotes because the ceiling is really low. It's more jump jet assisted controlled leaping/falling.@Kyldenar buffing the rest of the characters with things that make them more intersting is, of course, the ideal. The problem is there are core game designs that would require insane buffs, and so much more work in this case.
Slow flying has not been a problem, that's completely under a good player's control. It also is compensated for adding a much higher firing plane for attackers, which does mean something when you are trying to aim. Also, delay before liftoff for ult is manageable.
But back to this buffing thing, I've been screaming about it for defensive characters forever now, and it wasn't even Valk that blew them up, it was map design and Horizon, the original get to higher altitude easy character. I think people forget how much of an auto pick she was. Respawn's meta SUCKS right now, and height is one of the big reasons. Scan meta is another. Valk has both.
If you want to go on buffing like 10 other characters, that is absolutely cool by me. In the meantime, tho, Valk is super broke. I mean, I love her, she's awesome, but she's over the top now.
Buffing Defense characters: Each one of Wattson, Rampart, Caustic and Gibralter get instant aimbot on their guns when other characters are in the air because of Horizon's passive or Valk's ult :P
- @Kyldenar It was tried. Buffed Lifeline so she was fun and viable again... everybody moaned and cried about it for months. So buffing 6-8 legends so they can keep up with broken legends like Gibby and Valk... the crying would be unbearable.
- @Sand_spitter Not sure what xp has to do with anything. Also not sure about the wraith comment.
Also I gave ideas on how to nerf her if you read what I said.- @hayhor ah, I see. I didn't read your last comment properly. I see what you mean, there is a way to counter that attack by not moving and using a shield cell, but it does not mean that character is balanced or fair.
The Wraith comment was that you, as a top xp contributor was routing for her nerf, while it was never necessary to the extent we saw. In fact it actually hurt the game. So what does that tell us? Valk is fine with obvious flaws yet you say nothing because you play her? I refer to topics xp bc it means people agree with you. That either means the community can't run their own game or it means that upvotes are meaningless. Personally I always thought upvotes held some sort of weight.- @Sand_spitter I don't remember being that vocal about wraith getting nerfed but let's look at what it was like before she got her hitbox change. She was picked something like 33% of the time. The next highest was around 10%. That indicates a character is the most broken there can be. They first nerfed her disappearing but we all knew that would not matter. Her hitbox and run style made her by far the hardest character to hit in the game.
Valk isn't even the most picked character now.
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