In VALORANT, the balance has shifted significantly. Originally designed to blend precise gunplay with strategic agent abilities, the game now sees utilities overpowering aiming skills. This shift has made the game more challenging for beginners and left players feeling helpless against utility spam. The introduction of agents like Tejo and Waylay has contributed to the rise of the retake meta. Statistics show that 70% of players, including prominent streamer Tyson “TenZ” Ngo, express frustration over the utility-heavy gameplay. During a recent stream, TenZ highlighted the overwhelming utility dumps defenders face, including flashes, recon abilities, and ultimates. He suggested that the only counter to utility-heavy rushes is to fall back and rely on numbers. TenZ also humorously noted on X that the colorful utility spam sometimes seems to cure his color blindness. Alex Wheeler, Principal UX Designer at Riot Games, acknowledged these concerns and confirmed that the team is working on improvements, though no timeline for changes has been set.
Peter Nader
@PetroxVLR
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7h thats it for me with this game ….
@VALORANT
broken game with no anti cheat with no support and cant fix your game mmr system after 2 acts of suffering
s2k
@hatitties
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Mar 15 yo
@VALORANT
your game is trash, you have pocket cheaters sitting in silver,gold,plat,diamond,and ascendant. You bring in a rr system to give back against cheaters but refuse to give a red screen shits terrible fix it or you’ll turn out like shrouds game.
Bee
@imabeebop
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Mar 2 VALORANT has a new problem: trenchcoat Agents.
We’re starting to see a pattern of agents being released with existing abilities in different combinations rather than new and adaptive game mechanics. It doesn’t make me terribly hopeful for state of play.
Marouane
@MarwaneOma
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Mar 18 I’m gonna lose it because of #VALORANT fix your shit game 8 games with worst fuckin teammates and against fuckin cheaters/smurfs / stream snipers but mostly cheaters and smurfs I’m fuckin done with this shit game
Pizoza
@ytpizoza
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Mar 18 Fix the bug where I get useless idiots every single game that refuse to use util and cry if I comm so unplayable
OTK m1xwell
@Mixwell
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Mar 1 I’ve never said this before but VALORANT is in a REALLY BAD state, theres so many CHEATERS it’s literally unplayable, I really hope we can change this for the better because it will become another CS where you can’t play in ingame ranked mode and enjoy it. Even in 5 stack we get
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