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4 bullet 5 kills vs gMd + seven

@JerradG that’s awesome man… congrats

Baby peach 👸🏻 coming July 2026!

@DeanTTraining overhead is better

Every time I see someone doing Standing Tricep Push-Downs I think to myself: “Bro…you could make that exercise 300% more effective just by pulling a bench over, turning around, & sitting down” So little effort for such a BIG boost! It’s INSANE more people aren’t doing it…

@IKARIvlrt @melanji yeah nerfing both is just crazy work

@scrivelex @melanji He is broken, I play him but feels like a crazy nerf to me. Tp I kinda understand but 1 flash? The balancing team gotta be bronze or something

killing off yoru like this meanwhile waylay/neon are untouched + sentinels getting zero buffs is sickening keep yoru players in your prayers tonight 🙏

@viv1enna I hope you get dunked on by a waylay every game

yoru is now easily the worst agent in the game and i’m so happy about it

@leiysoar no, initiator too bad

this is like a whole gutting, I think double duelist dies with yoru’s nerf, i mean double dive is kinda viable but difficult, initiator meta incoming 😴

@n00bywarrior @SeismicChef yes and those players are just idiot who don’t realize their agent is practically useless outside of getting kills while overhealed

@scrivelex @SeismicChef I am not saying take it away. My point was that playing Omen isn't going to get Clove players what they want which is the heal. The only Clove players I know were Reyna players before her heal got nerfed and before that they were Sage players when self heal was stronger.

As long as there's a controller that all of the troglodyte duelist mains can pick and say "but I'm helping I used my smokes!" They will be the most-picked ranked agent. The main problem with Clove is that all of the other smokers require brain cells to play.

@n00bywarrior @SeismicChef unfortunately can’t take it away or clove would be useless. Heal has already been nerfed pretty good

@scrivelex @SeismicChef it's just the heal. give any agent self heal and you'll see selfish insta locks. the rest of the kit doesn't matter at all.

@LotharHS nah lowkey that smoke while dead be winning postplants hella

This changes absolutely nothing for ranked.

@Dasnerth they both definitely need a very slight nerf. nothing major though. its unfair they remain untouched but they absolutely execution style KILLED MY YODU

you guys gotta lock in. neon/waylay are good, but definitely not busted. there are other changes riot can make to the game to help balance those characters without removing/nerfing neon or waylay

@ElevatedSpeaks @HolyGreyll and now you cant even do this and STILL only have one flash

@HolyGreyll Are you okay? Yoru can literally be in two places at once on every map in the game and you're talking about number of flashes LOL

Reminder: the community was sure that Riot "killed" Neon 3 times already and people are now crying about the agent again. Yoru is not dead, he just requires sentient thought to play now. Playing Yoru has been playing Val on easy mode for over a year. This is a healthy nerf.

@ElevatedSpeaks anyone who tries yoru for the first time realizes that its not easy to be good at it. creative thinking and quick made up plays are what make the agent strong. a bad yoru will just never be able to make good use of the agent outside of fast rotate TPs and OP crutching CT side.

@JuneBird_ @ShyoWager dont even need to give it a shot in game, his kit is practically useless now. insta rotate tps are dead, and the timing window for making aggro plays with a tp out is just too small now, not to mention only having ONE flash. yoru was a self sufficient agent with a difficult kit.

Hey there, gameplay designer on Val here. Our goal is never to simply reduce creativity on an agent. In Yoru’s case we are removing options that are splashing too deeply into other roles causing a reduction in pick diversity. Yoru is simply over-tuned, and a consequence of that is having access to a wide variety of gameplay patterns that are atypical for duelists in general such as map wide rotation, long term space holding, and flexible flashes that are as strong selfishly as they are at supporting teammates. All told, we do have to make calls around what is appropriate for the role and game holistically, and sometimes that does mean removing options. Give it a shot in game - if it turns out we overswung on this nerf we will be keeping an eye out for all of your feedback after you try out the changes. Some more context is here as well:

I wish we traded reductions in power for a boost in creativity on Yoru. Fell in love with the agent because of the trickster playstyle he can have and some of the mind games he can put down. 15sec Gatecrash. Less OP map omnipotence. The goal is to make it more brawly and intentional in usage rather than an always online cross map rotation tool that dictates how teams approach the first 30 seconds of the game. In that case can we make it so that you can't hear if he took the TP from his location again? We trade creativity in controlling the map for a majority of the round, timing your TPs correctly and making good decisions, for creativity in fighting, with shorter timed TPs that can break ankles and have him be a strong agent in executes and brawls like he was supposed to be. No creativity in his gameloop, just an overall loss in power, makes the agent less fun to play. I don't want to lose the original power fantasy this agent has in combination with making him also generally weaker. Down to make him weaker but lets keep him fun.

@currydtx No, they would have to delete agent probably

is this enough for players to stop playing Clove as much?

no hate to mada, extremely good player, but I feel like against PRX and Nongshim he had some bad decision making that cost them important rounds. I am sure there is plenty of other things that the team did badly (including individuals). They will 100% bounce back fs tho. USA USA

@Eggsterr @tdawggVAL it’s okay daddy they will buff him back up. it’s illegal what the did to OUR yoru.

@tdawggVAL That 1 flash better last 3 and a half seconds

if anyone can make it work… it’s him…

@KingDrac2107 @melanji exactly. not to mention it’s a hard agent to actually be GOOD at (make good use of the kit)

@scrivelex @melanji I personally never had a game vs Yoru when I thought "man fuk this agent". Neon and Waylay however.

why would the nerf yodu…. he wasn’t even broken… not to mention hard to master… and they already nerfed him not too long ago… now he’s unplayable…

@ValorLeaks wow…. they killed him…

Upcoming Yoru Changes | #VALORANT - Gatecrash (TP) Duration reduced from 30s to 15s. - Blindside (Flash) Charges reduced from 2 to 1. #VALORANT