One thing that I think a lot of pros overlook about reyna is that if you're a monster of a player, then reyna is an awesome agent to pick, even if you're in pro. We saw this a bit I think with Something on PRX and we've seen it a bit in the past between a few other pro players. Reyna is that agent that is made for smurfs- so if you have a player that looks like they're smurfing on a pro team, then you've got yourself a good combination between that player and reyna.
Reyna beeing for "smurfing" as you call it is a bit of a misconception, reyna capitalizes in insane reaction time and understanding of surroundings, for example the prx pick on bind was to counter the double smoke meta as f0rsaken could just ignore and say f*** you to the smokes push past them get a kill and create space, watch the old ice box reyna clips of asuna if you want he dominates because reyna is all about surroundings and how fast you react to your surroundings, the problem with her not beeing picked is because she isnt as "easy" to use in a heavy team consecrated play, now by easy I dont mean ease of use what I mean is she is way to big of a risk as as I said it's all about how good you improvise with reyna, that's why prx made her work they have an improvising type play where they play aggressive and see what sticks from there on, wheres most teams have devised plans and comps and plays in advance wich leaves no room for improvisation, sorry for the long line but what I want to push through is that reyna isnt a "smurf" agent and you dont have to be "better" than your opponents to make her work, this is a very very common misconception in valorant, no reyna is all about improvising and why she works in comp is because you have 4 people who you dont know and it's difficult to pull of coordinated plays with them since you havent played with them prior, that's what makes her stand out.
Again sorry for the long texts but while SOMETHING did play reyna on prx he didnt do it cuz he is "smurfing" on them, no hes a mechanically gifted player with very little tier 1 experience so in most cases he is at a disadvantage, saddly it's very difficult to understand pro player discion making and that's why we call to jump some players "aim minsters", I want you to rewatch every SOMETHING clip (if you care) on reyna where it's his quick on his feet decision making (in other words improvising) that makes his reyna so deadly, not his aim not his crosshair placement none of these things. If you did read this sorry for writing so much, have a good day.
@@loilded129 i think this argument is a bit unsound because this isn't 2021 icebox anymore, and asuna and tenz aren't tip-top players. THat kind of player doesn't really work anymore, nor does that playstyle, yknow? ikm just saying that reyna seriously has some options and just isn't used enough maybe in pro. There's at least SOME untapped potential
I ain't readin allat, but what I can say about Reyna's issue is consistency and her Risk-Reward ratio. Everything is just not it. It's a professional's job to stay consistent but it's better if the agent is more reliable and dependable in that deal. Second, if you watched the video. She is very selfish and her kit isn't very teamplay friendly, and it relies on kills so theres more on the risk part. PRX build around Reyna and something is very consistent. Boostio tried and kinda replicated it, with a different set of tools and just choked in the end.
@@joewhosjoe2233 First of being consistent isnt what makes teams successful, taking calculated risks is, second if played correctly reyna can create as much space as a jett/raze can and give frags for the individual at the same time, just watch the bind game prx vs drx, as I pointed out In the "essey"
I think one of the main reasons that Reyna is better in ranked than in pro play is solo queue, most ranked players are solo queuers, just like me, and therefore a self sufficient character like Reyna, Phoenix or Skye is very good picks for ranked, but in pro play, its all teams and Reyna's solo queue reliability is non existent
u say is good because is self sufficient but anyways soloq or pro players are still in a team game and reyna plays for herself, for that is not rentable on any type of match
The only way to balance Reyna is to delete the existence of smurfs by needing a phone number to use an account like overwatch did with this change they can buff her and not worry about smurfs
@@swallowingtherabbitwhole9552although true you technically would be considered as attempting to boost your friends since you ARE a higher rank than on your trio account. It’s not really smurfing but you are more skilled than most plats if you can soloQ to diamond. It’s like pro players making a second account to do challenges, even if they are trying on that account, at the end of the day it’s smurfing. Even if that account eventually hits radiant.
11:00 these two kills by derke awakaned many memories and emotions in my brain, bringing me back to when i was choosing my first agent to unlock and reading chambers description
Woah this video is so well put together! It feels so weird that theres "history of" videos on agents, i feel so old LMAO. I feel bad for reyna, watching this video amde me think about how irrelevant some agents are in the pro scene which is sad. Especially Phoenix, Yoru and Cypher, i hope riot is working on buffs or reworks for these agents and reyna they really could use smthn to bolster their viability in pro play
I feel like Reyna could’ve benefit a lot more buffs in her abilities: - Any allied agents that assisted Reyna in killing her opponent should get heal/dismiss buff depending on what ability Reyna used - Her ultimate could’ve been made so that she can act like a moving stim beacon to her team instead of giving combat stim for herself. (I mean the ult’s name is “Empress” so making her ultimate affect other players would perfectly embody the “Empress” title she has making that her team act like Reyna’s army)
hell naw, reyna is just an agent that just cant be good, if she is smurfing becomes hell and makes the casual player experience way worse, she needs just a full rework to fix it or just leave her as she is in the bad state forever
@@thatoneguyeveryonelikes6929 thats just basically saying other duelists shouldn’t be duelists as well. Other duelists have kits that supports their teammate and I dont see why Reyna cant
@PlayVALORANT please rework Devour ! My recommendation is a variation of Astra's Gravity Well remodeled in Reyna's theme. @Drysdaylia I wish you would have dived deeper into the kit of Reyna : - Leer : strong, balanced, a signature duelist ability unique to her; - Devour : gain significant leverage if you can still keep visual contact with the victim. Very high potential in ranked (the lower rank the better) that plummets in usefulness in pro play because of well executed trades - Dismiss : creates the potential of denying a trade, with some value in ranked but significantly more valuable in pro play; - Empress : more Devour and Dismiss. Combat Stim is nice but it's mostly more Devour and Dismiss. Depending on rank, the difference in usefulness of Devour and Dismiss tip the balance heavily in favor of lower rank. Additionally, Devour is an excellent ability in the hands of a smurf, probably the most smurf-enabler ability in the game.
I do really like the way her kit is as a fairly new player. Of course I hated her at the start, but you quickly realise that Reyna is never the problem as her kit provides her nothing to do her job except her flash which is far from the best. The only way a Reyna can get kills is by being good, she only simplifies the task of getting multiple ones in the same round. She also is an excellent agent for new players as playing her can help you get confident and try plays you wouldn't try with any other agent. She also allows for some very fun off-meta strats like OP Reyna or the rarely seen but so fun lurking Reyna. So, if I encounter a smurf Reyna, I'm mad at him, not at Reyna.
The thing about reyna: is that you cant really or change her in any situation to help the team. Reyna's kit is meant to be a gun blazing rambo and feeds of her self to become stronger, her kit is selfish but it get's the job done. Basically like a Chamber situation, most of his abilities requires you two things, place your 2 items somewhere. hold and fire. Chamber's guns put's pressure to enemies against anti-eco's or half buys, nerfing the guns would result mostly remove his ability to counter the enemies economy, nerfing the trips and tps, will remove it's part as a sentinel. nerfing them all, means nerfing chamber's playstyle. There are 2 things about Reyna being a downed agent. 1. Half of your abilities force you to kill. Meaning if you have to aggressive most parts of your match. And you also need to have aim. 2. All of his abilities are counterable at most and some at it's worst, in low elo, Reyna is an absolute pubstomp. but in high elo, She is still in pick. But requires you to have a comms, a reyna with proper support by flashes or disrupting enemies positions is terrifying. But solo q and team play/pro play are different since you can't really force the 4 players on your team, to help you with your entries, or support the angles that you pick, that's why Jett, Neon Exists. I dont know how to change reyna to the point she would useful to the team. so yeah that's just that.
I would argue that the most problematic part of her kit is her heal, since it’s always been a pain in the ass on pistol rounds and it’s only really good against low skill players who can’t reliably headshot. It’s the most significant part of her kit that makes her a pub stomper imo. I would suggest replacing it with an ability that is not tied to the soul harvesting mechanic. Ideally something that lets her play much more aggressively and entry for her team, like a mobility option or LOS blocker (like Jett smoke or Neon wall).
I think to make her viable again they should put 1 charge of devour/dismiss on recharge like skye flash but make cooldown longer something like 40-45seconds or have it recharge 1 devour/dismiss only once after getting 2 kills.
Reyna's Identity has always been get a kill for utility, that can remain the same while making her better, by making it so that when she gets a kill she doesn't have to use it then but she can store it for later in the round but for reduced effect
id love it if they leaned more into her immortality instead of the soul orbs, since that feels pretty unique. idk how one would balance that but it feels like a thing that wouldnt have this huge ranked pro divide.
Maybe more like this: Reyna Ult = each kill gives her +HP based on the HP of the enemy she killed (excluding armor) But this time, her ult lasts half as long as her current ult time
I am commenting this before watching this video, and will probably edit this comment when I've finished watching it, but I just started Valorant (around 20 games of unrated) and Reyna is everywhere, at least one, if not 2 per game. She ends up almost always with the most kills (I'm lying, she ALWAYS ends up with the most kills) and I don't even know why but she looks just OP to me and not very fair to play against, so I was very surprised to see this video in my recommandations since my experience so far has been way different than what the reality appears to be like. 😅
well since you are new, you are probably in (sorry for being honest) but bad lobbies. No one fights together and everyone I just running around. So ofc reyna is going to look op to a newer player bc she is untradeable once someone has died (alone bc they don't fight together) or she can full heal if she is in a half decent position where the enemy simply cant push her out bc they dont understand how to properly.
@@apoca1ypt1c61 Oh for sure I am still a noob at this game, and this is exactly why this is an issue. I don't even know what all the characters do, since the majority of them aren't unlocked, and trying the characters in the practice range just seems useless, you can't even use Reyna's abilities for example. Yet the decides to put me vs a level 143 Reyna while I am level 13 (happened multiple times). There's nothing in this game that even introduces a character to newer players, some of them I've never even encountered in a game yet. Another thing is, as this video points out, this isn't just a "stomping noobs" type of hero, I mean sure maybe it wrecks uncoordinated unrated lobbies filled with newer players which in itself is fine, but dominating lower elo ranked lobbies (I'm guessing below gold? Which is where a big chunk of the player base is? Correct me on that) with players that are somewhat experienced or at least know what they are doing seems like a bigger problem to me. Again I'm fairly new to this game but it seems that not only the fact that you have to figure out everything by yourself already, seeing as the same character go 32-7 every game is just no fun tbh. 😬
@@valentinpicart I understand where you are coming from, i remember the feeling of being overwhelmed by the mass number of new characters, maps, and information. I cant even begin to imagine that now with the new maps and even more agents. If you ever need someone to play with or someone to explain something add me (Him #e z) im lvl 420-something and know this game pretty well. Other that that good luck on stopping those reyna-pubstoppers
I sometimes thought that people hate reyna for the way she is and just try to find reasons just to hate on her when she has proven she's still something even if she doesn't outshine other agents
Shes actually trash tho, if this game is played how it was supposed to be played in normal ranked matches, shes the worst agent by a mile, and Valorant is supposed to be played coordinated which means Reyna is just trash. This is a team based game ffs
@@kuhieyei3855 i think her flash is really good though in wide open maps like breeze as its AOE flash and doesn't flash your teammates. Sure it can be shot down but that 1 second is all top players need to get a kill.
@@swordofkhaine8464 yea, and top players would do better with other duelist. Her flash is good tho agree, but shes not balanced, someone also has to be the worst.
I personally think that for buffing reyna they need to change the flash and change how do the orb spawning works or even changing her role because the problem of reyna it's not that people are getting mad at riot for changing it it's because any major change could make her being an initiator instead of a duelist I thought of maybe adding reyna 3 orbs and making her heal heal 75 instead of 100 but that would make it an initiator more than a duelist or maybe for kinda fixing their entry problem while she's dismissing just after that in a small area concuss the enemies so at least it can give a little of utility to the team. Conclusion: Changing reyna's numbers it's useless unless mayor changes occurs in her ability set like concussing enemies near her or so. So the most inteligent thing is leave her alone or make a little rework
@@MackOP3 In my opinion, the most reasonable thing is to just buff the flash. make the flash shoot like gekko's blind skill or make it like the haunt skill fade that detect people's position. and all Reyna's problems not being picked on pro play are over. considering that Reyna is one of the strongest agents in Lore, so why not?
I did thought about an idea to rework her I dont know if it would be balanced but I would like to hear about your ideas so it goes like this her heal instead of healing if you manage to suck health of someone for x amount of time without getting interrupted by any means you get a temporary shield that blocks exactly 1 hit so you are guaranteed to not get instantly one shotted by vandal phantom or op or things like that but its not o useful against shoutguns lmgs and smgs since they fire a lot of bullets that blocking oen wouldn't change much but since it no longer heals she cannot go kill after kill in lower elos without dying since people are not that good that aiming there but now since you have shield you essentially have a free peek or you can use it to get a an advantage on gunfights also now that its a temporary shield the enemy can counter it by shotting into your chest first and spray controlling into your head also this should be added to her ultimate as well when you use your ultimate you just get that shield which makes her ultimate actualy usefull besides being a brim stim and every time you get a kill shield refreshes
I love Reyna, but hate playing her as I'm not mechanically skilled enough to use her in ranked play - I honestly play more team centric characters like controller or sentinels. Hopefully she can get some actual changes that make her fresh to play again! Unfortunately the selfish aspect seems to be tied to her original game design... hope to see some risks taken from riot at least
In solo-q she has a 99% pick rate due to her self-healing and evasion abilities. Especially against the newbies in this game who don't know that you have to hide or shoot at her orbs. That's why she's most preferred-pick for smurfs too.
nothing new has happened to phoenix except for minor things. The reason his pick rate dropped is just bc of that reason. New agents came in who were better and phoenix stayed the same. Along with the new double initiator and controller meta, jett is just better.
When you think of all of the dualists, they each get back one ability after their second pick. Yoru gets his teleport back, Raze her grenade, Jett her dash, etc. The fix to Reyna is a simple one. Reyna should be able to use her first heal and dismiss while having line of sight on an enemy, rather than killing them. The second use of these abilities should require a kill. and before anyone starts with pro play vs solo queue bullshit, no game should ever be balanced around it's top 1%. What makes the pro players...professional is that they take what everyone could do, and refine it to the point they're amongst the best. When a game balances a hero, agent, champion, or whatever else you want to call their respective character(s) to the upper echelon of the games skill-cap, the people maining said character are doing better or worst depending on buffs/nerfs, over improvement - for the skills that the top percentage either lack, or have. That's why I don't fuck with games that nerf characters too much, whether the changes are justified or not. When you introduce a new element to your game (in the form of agents), you have an obligation to your player-base to make sure that the new element does not get released in a game-breaking state, that they don't completely overshadow the other characters in their role, that their abilities don't get released in such a strong state - that every game your team mates instalock said agent in fear that if they do not have one - they're throwing. I will say this, Riot does have good intuition on releasing balanced agents, as most of the time the new agents just have some culmination of different abilities already in the game (I.E blinds, smokes, traps, concuss, mollies (and by extension any other dmging abilities), walls, scans, etc.) On the flip-side of the coin, once the agent is out - they only really giver 2 fucks about it if it's a dualist. (yoru rework, phoenix buffs, i'm sure a reyna readjustment is coming) while Cypher players have been wanting buffs for years now, and Chamber continues to be a meme pick. Honestly, it kind of feels like Riot is so ass at designing sentinels, that they intentionally bottle-neck their abilities to make dualists shine more.
Only Reyna main knows what buff Reyna need. No need to bring 4 consumable soul orb, just reduce the gun equip time that's it. It takes more than 2 sec to equip a gun. You can see this in clutch situation where you have to equip gun fast but you saw that your Reyna is grabbing her gun slowly like at that moment the time feels slow and when she completely equip the gun, Reyna was dead. Since past 3 years I am playing Reyna most of the time and I found chamber as its replacement but after nerf I came back to Reyna. Riot should bring some agent to replace Reyna if they can't buff it little.
As an Immortal Reyna main, she is a terrible agent that relies entirely on personal skill. She also has the highest carry potential out of any other agent, which is why I play her. If you're a solo queue player, Reyna is the perfect agent. Less reliance on teammates utility, healing on kills which lets you take more fights, and one of the most powerful ults for a clutch.
If riot were to rework Reyna they could give her a third soul orb, but the first or second of the orbs has to be a dismiss or heal, then the third can be whatever.
So I've been playing Reyna for a while now since I solo q I think a few changes that could be made are having a way to adjust how far you throw her leer, maybe making her leers and dismiss/heal cost more but giving us and extra heal/dismiss. Maybe making it to where she moves quicker while ulted but maybe like 6 or 7 points. Idk this are my thoughts on her though. Could make her really good but maybe really bad. Depends.
I just realized something. So yall know how acc to reyna's lore, she is collecting the sould orbs to help heal her sister or something right? What if there will come a time where the lore gets updated. Either the sister heals or something tragic happens, from then, reyna will get a rework where she can even use her soul orbs to heal a teammate. It would be OP, yes, but they could make it so that the teammate doesnt get a full heal, maybe 50 or 75. That would make reyna so much more viable for teamplay and pro play. And i wouldnt say its a total OP buff, coz then the team will also depend on reyna for the heal in certain situations. What do yall think
the issue is that when someone on your team picks reyna you know your basicaly playing a man down. People who play Reyna are kinda just selecting the training bot as an agent. Its worse because you know they could pop off on brim, or kayo, or kj and have a ton of util impact but they just wana see more kills becasue they cant cut it at their rank
reyna is like a lone wolf player for me becuase you are healing yourself and taking cover by yourself using dismiss and the blind can be used without flashing yourself nor your teammate and its bsically jack of all trade her dismiss can be use as recon providing intel as a team player and reyna heal is very useful to bait yourself since your revealing your location so pretty much u can play off angle in every way to trade yourself/ bait yourself for your teammate
I genuinely forgot to mention any ideas, sorry about that. There's been a bunch of pretty interesting ideas tossed around by other people in the comments though. I personally don't think she's ever going to get a major rework though, she's just too popular.
all I really think she needs is a rework to her flash and make it to where she has at least has one ability that is useful for the team bc I think everyone is sick and tired of a insta lock Reyna going negative or neutral that is just useless unless theyre going insane bc even with jett/raze atleast if they go negative if they entry every round they are being useful and you cannot say the same for reyna.
the difference between pro play and ranked games is in pro play they play as a team. there are a lot of coms and they’re trying to win to further themselves to a visible, tangible prize that ALL of them get. in comp… most reyna’s are solo queued, or boosting a friend. she’s such a selfish character, its easy to climb the ranks with her bc you can ego peek without a worry - as long as you get a pick you’re safe. people in comp are playing as a *team* to help *everyone* win. they just care about boosting themselves. she’s an awesome character for doing that. but she’s not a team player, and she never will be. it’s not who she is, game or story wise. she does her own thing. i doubt they’ll try to balance her any further.
Pro play and solo queue are two completely different battlefields. In solo queue is every man for themselves most of the time and you’re most likely playing with people you’ve never met and this also goes for the enemy team. These characters thrive when opponents make mistakes and don’t communicate properly In pro play, teams have played with each other for months up to years now, they know how they play and they know how to follow up each others plays and because of how more coordinated they are, less mistakes are less likely to happen and you need characters that are pro active instead of reactive. Jet is proactive, she goes in and gives space for her team while reyna has to wait and HOPE for someone to make a huge mistake and the enemy team already knows that if they play a certain way reyna can’t do anything.
Nowadays you need to get to level 20 to play ranked, but before the leveling system was introduced you only had to win 10 unrated games. Also riot has been constantly improving their smurf detection since launch to try and make smurfs rank up faster. Definitely still far from perfect though.
Pro play relies on team play, especially as time goes on. Even PRX are using reyna in creative ways like combos with another flash. But the problem is, if she is buffed due to being bad in pro play, then she will be untouchable in solo q. I would say that despite riot games making these changes based on pro play, reyna is probably the only agent that solo q is the main consideration. For example, the recent phantom and vandal magazine nerfs are due to the pro harbour-viper meta was spamming through all these walls was everything, ignoring the low ranked players that use a whole magazine to kill one player. So yeah, i thjnk they are not buffing her despite her poor pro pick rate because she is still so strong in solo q
the only way is to make changes that make so she has to comunicate with the team while having a greater impact on the game but not as much of a snowball, basicaly create another character with the same name and skin but diferent playstyle.
That's not a good idea. She's overpowered in ranked because she can snowball rounds while useless in pro play because she has no utility outside of Leer if she doesn't get any kills. These changes don't fix that. She will still snowball in low elo even with only one Devour since having 3 Leers and 2 Dismisses will cancel that out. Giving her 3 Leers balance wise wouldn't be a "bad" change for pro play, but balanced doesn't mean fair. There's a reason why Skye and Breach were nerfed from 3 to 2 flashes, it was annoying as shit both for pros and casuals and there's a reason why no Duelists have ever had more than 2 flashes. Mind you, Leer, when isolated from the rest of her kit is probably one of the strongest "flashes" in the game so giving 3 of these is not a good idea. Overall, her kit is just not healthy for the game both in pro play and in Ranked, she needs a full rework. Her Leer and Dismiss are both alright abilities, but I think her Ultimate and Devour needs to be completely changed.
The fact we all need to accept, is that the majority of games have these type of characters, that have a huge gap between pro and casual play. The only real option is deleting or reworking them. And honestly, I think these characters need to be bad at pro play and left alone.
i have a really stupid idea to rework reyna make her ult to be a like a regular piece of util but nerf it to just heal and dismiss give her 2 charges of that then her leer gets a like spot affect and then have her get a ability to increase her movement speed and then her ult is just heal and movement speed increase trust
i think she need a rework if they want her to be seen in pro play she needs another ability that she can use without killing someone even if its a nerf it will make her more playable in pro play
all reyna needs is a flash rework. it’s so garbage since you can peek from behind cover and can see for a short second. i think a decent change could be a short flash when the eye is shot or when it runs out
I probably should have elaborated on that a bit more in the video, but the basic idea is that nowadays you need to get to level 20 to play ranked, but before the leveling system was introduced you only had to win 10 unrated games. Also riot has been constantly improving their smurf detection since launch to try and make smurfs rank up faster. There's still a ton of smurfs but it has definitely improved somewhat since 2020.
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people need to realize pro play and soloq are different
they sure are.
wow im sure no one knew that
Yeh in pro play the players do scrims and practice executions
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Can't wait for something to single handedly rise reyna's pick rate to 2% in Champions LA
One thing that I think a lot of pros overlook about reyna is that if you're a monster of a player, then reyna is an awesome agent to pick, even if you're in pro. We saw this a bit I think with Something on PRX and we've seen it a bit in the past between a few other pro players. Reyna is that agent that is made for smurfs- so if you have a player that looks like they're smurfing on a pro team, then you've got yourself a good combination between that player and reyna.
Reyna beeing for "smurfing" as you call it is a bit of a misconception, reyna capitalizes in insane reaction time and understanding of surroundings, for example the prx pick on bind was to counter the double smoke meta as f0rsaken could just ignore and say f*** you to the smokes push past them get a kill and create space, watch the old ice box reyna clips of asuna if you want he dominates because reyna is all about surroundings and how fast you react to your surroundings, the problem with her not beeing picked is because she isnt as "easy" to use in a heavy team consecrated play, now by easy I dont mean ease of use what I mean is she is way to big of a risk as as I said it's all about how good you improvise with reyna, that's why prx made her work they have an improvising type play where they play aggressive and see what sticks from there on, wheres most teams have devised plans and comps and plays in advance wich leaves no room for improvisation, sorry for the long line but what I want to push through is that reyna isnt a "smurf" agent and you dont have to be "better" than your opponents to make her work, this is a very very common misconception in valorant, no reyna is all about improvising and why she works in comp is because you have 4 people who you dont know and it's difficult to pull of coordinated plays with them since you havent played with them prior, that's what makes her stand out.
Again sorry for the long texts but while SOMETHING did play reyna on prx he didnt do it cuz he is "smurfing" on them, no hes a mechanically gifted player with very little tier 1 experience so in most cases he is at a disadvantage, saddly it's very difficult to understand pro player discion making and that's why we call to jump some players "aim minsters", I want you to rewatch every SOMETHING clip (if you care) on reyna where it's his quick on his feet decision making (in other words improvising) that makes his reyna so deadly, not his aim not his crosshair placement none of these things. If you did read this sorry for writing so much, have a good day.
@@loilded129 i think this argument is a bit unsound because this isn't 2021 icebox anymore, and asuna and tenz aren't tip-top players. THat kind of player doesn't really work anymore, nor does that playstyle, yknow? ikm just saying that reyna seriously has some options and just isn't used enough maybe in pro. There's at least SOME untapped potential
I ain't readin allat, but what I can say about Reyna's issue is consistency and her Risk-Reward ratio. Everything is just not it. It's a professional's job to stay consistent but it's better if the agent is more reliable and dependable in that deal. Second, if you watched the video. She is very selfish and her kit isn't very teamplay friendly, and it relies on kills so theres more on the risk part. PRX build around Reyna and something is very consistent. Boostio tried and kinda replicated it, with a different set of tools and just choked in the end.
@@joewhosjoe2233 First of being consistent isnt what makes teams successful, taking calculated risks is, second if played correctly reyna can create as much space as a jett/raze can and give frags for the individual at the same time, just watch the bind game prx vs drx, as I pointed out In the "essey"
I think one of the main reasons that Reyna is better in ranked than in pro play is solo queue, most ranked players are solo queuers, just like me, and therefore a self sufficient character like Reyna, Phoenix or Skye is very good picks for ranked, but in pro play, its all teams and Reyna's solo queue reliability is non existent
u say is good because is self sufficient but anyways soloq or pro players are still in a team game and reyna plays for herself, for that is not rentable on any type of match
@@KHALEN_musiccan you honest to god say you trust your soloq teammates to do the bare minimum
@@daxie__3210 is a question?
Why are you saying Skye is self-sufficient and good in ranked but bad in pro play? Wtf?
@@thishandleistaken1011 i'm not saying Skye is bad for pro play, i just used her as an example of self sufficient
The only way to balance Reyna is to delete the existence of smurfs by needing a phone number to use an account like overwatch did with this change they can buff her and not worry about smurfs
that still wouldnt effect pro play on solo q and i think riot want to make her move active in pro scenes
That is a skill issue
smurfing has nothing to do with rank and mmr balancing, reyna is good in comp
@@swallowingtherabbitwhole9552 they can allow accounts before the change to not require a phone number but accounts after
@@swallowingtherabbitwhole9552although true you technically would be considered as attempting to boost your friends since you ARE a higher rank than on your trio account. It’s not really smurfing but you are more skilled than most plats if you can soloQ to diamond. It’s like pro players making a second account to do challenges, even if they are trying on that account, at the end of the day it’s smurfing. Even if that account eventually hits radiant.
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this is reminding me of the mega knight so much lmao, insane in mid ladder and ok in pro play
Absolutely loved the video. Not too long not too short, great music, great editing. You've earned a subscriber and deserve 100k more!
11:00 these two kills by derke awakaned many memories and emotions in my brain, bringing me back to when i was choosing my first agent to unlock and reading chambers description
Woah this video is so well put together! It feels so weird that theres "history of" videos on agents, i feel so old LMAO. I feel bad for reyna, watching this video amde me think about how irrelevant some agents are in the pro scene which is sad. Especially Phoenix, Yoru and Cypher, i hope riot is working on buffs or reworks for these agents and reyna they really could use smthn to bolster their viability in pro play
I feel like Reyna could’ve benefit a lot more buffs in her abilities:
- Any allied agents that assisted Reyna in killing her opponent should get heal/dismiss buff depending on what ability Reyna used
- Her ultimate could’ve been made so that she can act like a moving stim beacon to her team instead of giving combat stim for herself. (I mean the ult’s name is “Empress” so making her ultimate affect other players would perfectly embody the “Empress” title she has making that her team act like Reyna’s army)
hell naw, reyna is just an agent that just cant be good, if she is smurfing becomes hell and makes the casual player experience way worse, she needs just a full rework to fix it or just leave her as she is in the bad state forever
Bro your basically just saying make Reyna an infinitely better skye and brim. If you do that then she shouldn’t be a duelist.
@@thatoneguyeveryonelikes6929 thats just basically saying other duelists shouldn’t be duelists as well. Other duelists have kits that supports their teammate and I dont see why Reyna cant
@PlayVALORANT please rework Devour ! My recommendation is a variation of Astra's Gravity Well remodeled in Reyna's theme.
@Drysdaylia I wish you would have dived deeper into the kit of Reyna :
- Leer : strong, balanced, a signature duelist ability unique to her;
- Devour : gain significant leverage if you can still keep visual contact with the victim. Very high potential in ranked (the lower rank the better) that plummets in usefulness in pro play because of well executed trades
- Dismiss : creates the potential of denying a trade, with some value in ranked but significantly more valuable in pro play;
- Empress : more Devour and Dismiss. Combat Stim is nice but it's mostly more Devour and Dismiss.
Depending on rank, the difference in usefulness of Devour and Dismiss tip the balance heavily in favor of lower rank.
Additionally, Devour is an excellent ability in the hands of a smurf, probably the most smurf-enabler ability in the game.
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I do really like the way her kit is as a fairly new player. Of course I hated her at the start, but you quickly realise that Reyna is never the problem as her kit provides her nothing to do her job except her flash which is far from the best. The only way a Reyna can get kills is by being good, she only simplifies the task of getting multiple ones in the same round. She also is an excellent agent for new players as playing her can help you get confident and try plays you wouldn't try with any other agent. She also allows for some very fun off-meta strats like OP Reyna or the rarely seen but so fun lurking Reyna. So, if I encounter a smurf Reyna, I'm mad at him, not at Reyna.
The thing about reyna: is that you cant really or change her in any situation to help the team. Reyna's kit is meant to be a gun blazing rambo and feeds of her self to become stronger, her kit is selfish but it get's the job done. Basically like a Chamber situation, most of his abilities requires you two things, place your 2 items somewhere. hold and fire. Chamber's guns put's pressure to enemies against anti-eco's or half buys, nerfing the guns would result mostly remove his ability to counter the enemies economy, nerfing the trips and tps, will remove it's part as a sentinel. nerfing them all, means nerfing chamber's playstyle.
There are 2 things about Reyna being a downed agent.
1. Half of your abilities force you to kill. Meaning if you have to aggressive most parts of your match. And you also need to have aim.
2. All of his abilities are counterable at most and some at it's worst, in low elo, Reyna is an absolute pubstomp. but in high elo, She is still in pick. But requires you to have a comms, a reyna with proper support by flashes or disrupting enemies positions is terrifying. But solo q and team play/pro play are different since you can't really force the 4 players on your team, to help you with your entries, or support the angles that you pick, that's why Jett, Neon Exists.
I dont know how to change reyna to the point she would useful to the team. so yeah that's just that.
3 of 4 her abilities are affected by kills
the music in the end was everything
Fire soundtrack choice for the video as always 👍
I would argue that the most problematic part of her kit is her heal, since it’s always been a pain in the ass on pistol rounds and it’s only really good against low skill players who can’t reliably headshot. It’s the most significant part of her kit that makes her a pub stomper imo.
I would suggest replacing it with an ability that is not tied to the soul harvesting mechanic. Ideally something that lets her play much more aggressively and entry for her team, like a mobility option or LOS blocker (like Jett smoke or Neon wall).
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I think to make her viable again they should put 1 charge of devour/dismiss on recharge like skye flash but make cooldown longer something like 40-45seconds or have it recharge 1 devour/dismiss only once after getting 2 kills.
tf u on about she would be so bad shes already so shit the higher u go
Reyna's Identity has always been get a kill for utility, that can remain the same while making her better, by making it so that when she gets a kill she doesn't have to use it then but she can store it for later in the round but for reduced effect
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id love it if they leaned more into her immortality instead of the soul orbs, since that feels pretty unique. idk how one would balance that but it feels like a thing that wouldnt have this huge ranked pro divide.
Maybe more like this:
Reyna Ult = each kill gives her +HP based on the HP of the enemy she killed (excluding armor)
But this time, her ult lasts half as long as her current ult time
@@ryokajimosensei2780 that's way too big of a nerf to her ult. i think she is best the way she is.
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bro keep this up i loved every background kusic
only two types of reyna players i have met in valorant: carrying the whole team or sabotage the team
Holy crap that dreamyard music is awesome
You deserve at least 10,000 subs bro. Maybe even more
I am commenting this before watching this video, and will probably edit this comment when I've finished watching it, but I just started Valorant (around 20 games of unrated) and Reyna is everywhere, at least one, if not 2 per game. She ends up almost always with the most kills (I'm lying, she ALWAYS ends up with the most kills) and I don't even know why but she looks just OP to me and not very fair to play against, so I was very surprised to see this video in my recommandations since my experience so far has been way different than what the reality appears to be like. 😅
well since you are new, you are probably in (sorry for being honest) but bad lobbies. No one fights together and everyone I just running around. So ofc reyna is going to look op to a newer player bc she is untradeable once someone has died (alone bc they don't fight together) or she can full heal if she is in a half decent position where the enemy simply cant push her out bc they dont understand how to properly.
@@apoca1ypt1c61 Oh for sure I am still a noob at this game, and this is exactly why this is an issue. I don't even know what all the characters do, since the majority of them aren't unlocked, and trying the characters in the practice range just seems useless, you can't even use Reyna's abilities for example. Yet the decides to put me vs a level 143 Reyna while I am level 13 (happened multiple times). There's nothing in this game that even introduces a character to newer players, some of them I've never even encountered in a game yet.
Another thing is, as this video points out, this isn't just a "stomping noobs" type of hero, I mean sure maybe it wrecks uncoordinated unrated lobbies filled with newer players which in itself is fine, but dominating lower elo ranked lobbies (I'm guessing below gold? Which is where a big chunk of the player base is? Correct me on that) with players that are somewhat experienced or at least know what they are doing seems like a bigger problem to me. Again I'm fairly new to this game but it seems that not only the fact that you have to figure out everything by yourself already, seeing as the same character go 32-7 every game is just no fun tbh. 😬
@@valentinpicart I understand where you are coming from, i remember the feeling of being overwhelmed by the mass number of new characters, maps, and information. I cant even begin to imagine that now with the new maps and even more agents. If you ever need someone to play with or someone to explain something add me (Him #e z) im lvl 420-something and know this game pretty well.
Other that that good luck on stopping those reyna-pubstoppers
Dude reyna flash combined with sky's blind is super op as we saw when PRX used them
I sometimes thought that people hate reyna for the way she is and just try to find reasons just to hate on her when she has proven she's still something even if she doesn't outshine other agents
i thought the thumbnail meant something else 💀💀💀
I like it how Riot made a character they can't buff or nerf either. She's just the most balanced duelist rn, neither broken or trash
Shes actually trash tho, if this game is played how it was supposed to be played in normal ranked matches, shes the worst agent by a mile, and Valorant is supposed to be played coordinated which means Reyna is just trash. This is a team based game ffs
@@kuhieyei3855 i think her flash is really good though in wide open maps like breeze as its AOE flash and doesn't flash your teammates. Sure it can be shot down but that 1 second is all top players need to get a kill.
@@swordofkhaine8464 yea, and top players would do better with other duelist. Her flash is good tho agree, but shes not balanced, someone also has to be the worst.
I personally think that for buffing reyna they need to change the flash and change how do the orb spawning works or even changing her role because the problem of reyna it's not that people are getting mad at riot for changing it it's because any major change could make her being an initiator instead of a duelist I thought of maybe adding reyna 3 orbs and making her heal heal 75 instead of 100 but that would make it an initiator more than a duelist or maybe for kinda fixing their entry problem while she's dismissing just after that in a small area concuss the enemies so at least it can give a little of utility to the team.
Conclusion: Changing reyna's numbers it's useless unless mayor changes occurs in her ability set like concussing enemies near her or so. So the most inteligent thing is leave her alone or make a little rework
but what is the problem? chamber is still a sentinel....
@@gab4198 Hes totally not
I mean he is in theory but he doesn't look like it
@@MackOP3 In my opinion, the most reasonable thing is to just buff the flash. make the flash shoot like gekko's blind skill or make it like the haunt skill fade that detect people's position. and all Reyna's problems not being picked on pro play are over. considering that Reyna is one of the strongest agents in Lore, so why not?
Give her 3 dissmis orbs and their done
just give her ability to shoot, x3 speed, duration while dismiss, immediately heal and her blind also make stun then it will be totally balance
Honestly I had forgotten the old stuff from the game, feels so weird to see the difference compared to now.
the reynas i get like to peek common angles not ever using their leers, had multiple reyna instalocks peaking ops with 2 leers still not being used
Ok damn that transition at 17:40 was kinda nuts
I did thought about an idea to rework her I dont know if it would be balanced but I would like to hear about your ideas
so it goes like this her heal instead of healing if you manage to suck health of someone for x amount of time without getting interrupted by any means you get a temporary shield that blocks exactly 1 hit so you are guaranteed to not get instantly one shotted by vandal phantom or op or things like that but its not o useful against shoutguns lmgs and smgs since they fire a lot of bullets that blocking oen wouldn't change much but since it no longer heals she cannot go kill after kill in lower elos without dying since people are not that good that aiming there but now since you have shield you essentially have a free peek or you can use it to get a an advantage on gunfights also now that its a temporary shield the enemy can counter it by shotting into your chest first and spray controlling into your head also this should be added to her ultimate as well when you use your ultimate you just get that shield which makes her ultimate actualy usefull besides being a brim stim and every time you get a kill shield refreshes
ridiculously unfair
Ah yes, free diet Phoenix ult
I love Reyna, but hate playing her as I'm not mechanically skilled enough to use her in ranked play - I honestly play more team centric characters like controller or sentinels. Hopefully she can get some actual changes that make her fresh to play again! Unfortunately the selfish aspect seems to be tied to her original game design... hope to see some risks taken from riot at least
In solo-q she has a 99% pick rate due to her self-healing and evasion abilities. Especially against the newbies in this game who don't know that you have to hide or shoot at her orbs. That's why she's most preferred-pick for smurfs too.
I still do not understand why there are so many Reyna instalocks WHO STILL DONT KNOW HOW TO PLAY HER PROPERLY-
Practice?
Phoenix deserves a video like this
nothing new has happened to phoenix except for minor things. The reason his pick rate dropped is just bc of that reason. New agents came in who were better and phoenix stayed the same. Along with the new double initiator and controller meta, jett is just better.
i'm flabbergasted of how different the meta looks in pro players compared with iron 3
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people forget the legendary Reyna vs Reyna of Asuna and thief in NA Closed Qualifiers
Sideshow with hair is so wild to see lol
When you think of all of the dualists, they each get back one ability after their second pick. Yoru gets his teleport back, Raze her grenade, Jett her dash, etc. The fix to Reyna is a simple one. Reyna should be able to use her first heal and dismiss while having line of sight on an enemy, rather than killing them. The second use of these abilities should require a kill.
and before anyone starts with pro play vs solo queue bullshit, no game should ever be balanced around it's top 1%. What makes the pro players...professional is that they take what everyone could do, and refine it to the point they're amongst the best. When a game balances a hero, agent, champion, or whatever else you want to call their respective character(s) to the upper echelon of the games skill-cap, the people maining said character are doing better or worst depending on buffs/nerfs, over improvement - for the skills that the top percentage either lack, or have.
That's why I don't fuck with games that nerf characters too much, whether the changes are justified or not. When you introduce a new element to your game (in the form of agents), you have an obligation to your player-base to make sure that the new element does not get released in a game-breaking state, that they don't completely overshadow the other characters in their role, that their abilities don't get released in such a strong state - that every game your team mates instalock said agent in fear that if they do not have one - they're throwing.
I will say this, Riot does have good intuition on releasing balanced agents, as most of the time the new agents just have some culmination of different abilities already in the game (I.E blinds, smokes, traps, concuss, mollies (and by extension any other dmging abilities), walls, scans, etc.) On the flip-side of the coin, once the agent is out - they only really giver 2 fucks about it if it's a dualist. (yoru rework, phoenix buffs, i'm sure a reyna readjustment is coming) while Cypher players have been wanting buffs for years now, and Chamber continues to be a meme pick. Honestly, it kind of feels like Riot is so ass at designing sentinels, that they intentionally bottle-neck their abilities to make dualists shine more.
my idea is make dismiss like jett dash so they need to timed it but it does not need soul orb to work. Devour will work just the same
Pro play and ranked are different no way 🤯
Only Reyna main knows what buff Reyna need. No need to bring 4 consumable soul orb, just reduce the gun equip time that's it. It takes more than 2 sec to equip a gun. You can see this in clutch situation where you have to equip gun fast but you saw that your Reyna is grabbing her gun slowly like at that moment the time feels slow and when she completely equip the gun, Reyna was dead.
Since past 3 years I am playing Reyna most of the time and I found chamber as its replacement but after nerf I came back to Reyna. Riot should bring some agent to replace Reyna if they can't buff it little.
Reyna on TDM Hits diff agent from a mm game, especially when you're popping off
MAN WTF ICEBOX HAVE 2 BOX IN A SITE??
Riot : Good video and analysis on Reyna. Now let's nerf Chamber
As an Immortal Reyna main, she is a terrible agent that relies entirely on personal skill. She also has the highest carry potential out of any other agent, which is why I play her. If you're a solo queue player, Reyna is the perfect agent. Less reliance on teammates utility, healing on kills which lets you take more fights, and one of the most powerful ults for a clutch.
Awesome video G
If riot were to rework Reyna they could give her a third soul orb, but the first or second of the orbs has to be a dismiss or heal, then the third can be whatever.
So I've been playing Reyna for a while now since I solo q I think a few changes that could be made are having a way to adjust how far you throw her leer, maybe making her leers and dismiss/heal cost more but giving us and extra heal/dismiss. Maybe making it to where she moves quicker while ulted but maybe like 6 or 7 points. Idk this are my thoughts on her though. Could make her really good but maybe really bad. Depends.
I just realized something. So yall know how acc to reyna's lore, she is collecting the sould orbs to help heal her sister or something right? What if there will come a time where the lore gets updated. Either the sister heals or something tragic happens, from then, reyna will get a rework where she can even use her soul orbs to heal a teammate. It would be OP, yes, but they could make it so that the teammate doesnt get a full heal, maybe 50 or 75. That would make reyna so much more viable for teamplay and pro play. And i wouldnt say its a total OP buff, coz then the team will also depend on reyna for the heal in certain situations. What do yall think
the issue is that when someone on your team picks reyna you know your basicaly playing a man down. People who play Reyna are kinda just selecting the training bot as an agent. Its worse because you know they could pop off on brim, or kayo, or kj and have a ton of util impact but they just wana see more kills becasue they cant cut it at their rank
reyna is like a lone wolf player for me becuase you are healing yourself and taking cover by yourself using dismiss and the blind can be used without flashing yourself nor your teammate and its bsically jack of all trade her dismiss can be use as recon providing intel as a team player and reyna heal is very useful to bait yourself since your revealing your location so pretty much u can play off angle in every way to trade yourself/ bait yourself for your teammate
Good vid!
Maybe a Jett one next?
i think that riot should make leer an actual flash and change ult to a temp revive like a zombie or something because it would help with team play
Riot: oh reyna is a bad agent? Lets fix that.
*nerfs chamber*
bro i wait from the begin till the end of the video for the rework ideas. And no ideas was pop-ed
I genuinely forgot to mention any ideas, sorry about that. There's been a bunch of pretty interesting ideas tossed around by other people in the comments though. I personally don't think she's ever going to get a major rework though, she's just too popular.
Nice content! Folks definitely need more :)
all I really think she needs is a rework to her flash and make it to where she has at least has one ability that is useful for the team bc I think everyone is sick and tired of a insta lock Reyna going negative or neutral that is just useless unless theyre going insane bc even with jett/raze atleast if they go negative if they entry every round they are being useful and you cannot say the same for reyna.
the difference between pro play and ranked games is in pro play they play as a team. there are a lot of coms and they’re trying to win to further themselves to a visible, tangible prize that ALL of them get. in comp… most reyna’s are solo queued, or boosting a friend. she’s such a selfish character, its easy to climb the ranks with her bc you can ego peek without a worry - as long as you get a pick you’re safe. people in comp are playing as a *team* to help *everyone* win. they just care about boosting themselves. she’s an awesome character for doing that. but she’s not a team player, and she never will be. it’s not who she is, game or story wise. she does her own thing. i doubt they’ll try to balance her any further.
Bro we still don’t have good Smurf protection
Pro play and solo queue are two completely different battlefields.
In solo queue is every man for themselves most of the time and you’re most likely playing with people you’ve never met and this also goes for the enemy team. These characters thrive when opponents make mistakes and don’t communicate properly
In pro play, teams have played with each other for months up to years now, they know how they play and they know how to follow up each others plays and because of how more coordinated they are, less mistakes are less likely to happen and you need characters that are pro active instead of reactive.
Jet is proactive, she goes in and gives space for her team while reyna has to wait and HOPE for someone to make a huge mistake and the enemy team already knows that if they play a certain way reyna can’t do anything.
i dont know shit about this game and i read the title first and thought it was a whole video explaining why shes hot
"valorant didn't have the same smurf protection IT HAS TODAY"? where?
Nowadays you need to get to level 20 to play ranked, but before the leveling system was introduced you only had to win 10 unrated games. Also riot has been constantly improving their smurf detection since launch to try and make smurfs rank up faster. Definitely still far from perfect though.
Paper Rex would have something to say about that
Pro play relies on team play, especially as time goes on. Even PRX are using reyna in creative ways like combos with another flash. But the problem is, if she is buffed due to being bad in pro play, then she will be untouchable in solo q. I would say that despite riot games making these changes based on pro play, reyna is probably the only agent that solo q is the main consideration. For example, the recent phantom and vandal magazine nerfs are due to the pro harbour-viper meta was spamming through all these walls was everything, ignoring the low ranked players that use a whole magazine to kill one player. So yeah, i thjnk they are not buffing her despite her poor pro pick rate because she is still so strong in solo q
the only way is to make changes that make so she has to comunicate with the team while having a greater impact on the game but not as much of a snowball, basicaly create another character with the same name and skin but diferent playstyle.
i think she should have 2 dismiss and one heal and her flash has 3 uses?
That's not a good idea. She's overpowered in ranked because she can snowball rounds while useless in pro play because she has no utility outside of Leer if she doesn't get any kills. These changes don't fix that. She will still snowball in low elo even with only one Devour since having 3 Leers and 2 Dismisses will cancel that out. Giving her 3 Leers balance wise wouldn't be a "bad" change for pro play, but balanced doesn't mean fair. There's a reason why Skye and Breach were nerfed from 3 to 2 flashes, it was annoying as shit both for pros and casuals and there's a reason why no Duelists have ever had more than 2 flashes. Mind you, Leer, when isolated from the rest of her kit is probably one of the strongest "flashes" in the game so giving 3 of these is not a good idea. Overall, her kit is just not healthy for the game both in pro play and in Ranked, she needs a full rework. Her Leer and Dismiss are both alright abilities, but I think her Ultimate and Devour needs to be completely changed.
The fact we all need to accept, is that the majority of games have these type of characters, that have a huge gap between pro and casual play. The only real option is deleting or reworking them. And honestly, I think these characters need to be bad at pro play and left alone.
i have a really stupid idea to rework reyna make her ult to be a like a regular piece of util but nerf it to just heal and dismiss give her 2 charges of that then her leer gets a like spot affect and then have her get a ability to increase her movement speed and then her ult is just heal and movement speed increase trust
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Well directed video❤️
i think she need a rework if they want her to be seen in pro play
she needs another ability that she can use without killing someone even if its a nerf it will make her more playable in pro play
i think her flash should be indestructible, and she should get 3 Dismiss/Heal orbs
Every ranked player’s favorite character
2nd favorite. Jett is definitely the 1st
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reyna is an agent made for smurfs and people who actually have aim, and thats her entire job, getting kills
Plot Twist: The title meant to say "The History of Reyna: Why is she so bad?"
if you can aim it doesnt matter who you play in lower ranks. I can solo a point with cypher cause I can hold the flank and front with cams
I came back to valorant last month and i see reyna every single unrated and swiftplay game, so idk what you guys are talking about lol.
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Oh she _bad_ alright
Your style of videos would be excellent for lore summaries if that stuff interests you either way im here for the long run 👍
Everytime i see an instalock reyna. I already know it’s a loss
0:19 *Yoru with 0% pick rate*
all reyna needs is a flash rework. it’s so garbage since you can peek from behind cover and can see for a short second. i think a decent change could be a short flash when the eye is shot or when it runs out
i love reyna insta lockers bc they are so consistent. Or is bottom frag or is Top frag
Love the video and all but where is the smurf protection today? ive been on a 3 loss streak and ive had atleast 4-9 smurfs man
I probably should have elaborated on that a bit more in the video, but the basic idea is that nowadays you need to get to level 20 to play ranked, but before the leveling system was introduced you only had to win 10 unrated games. Also riot has been constantly improving their smurf detection since launch to try and make smurfs rank up faster. There's still a ton of smurfs but it has definitely improved somewhat since 2020.
@@Drysdaylia fair enough thank u
@@swavyyxx no way more there was more than 1 smurf in 3 games, valorant is not out to make you rank down lmao
@CraftCamp2 there was bro I swear I went from silver 3 ti silver 2 67 rr
you are so underrated
Reyna is not bad, she is just skill reliant. If you can tap heads like tenz she is a great agent. ( Solo q ofc)