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All in all, I feel like I have to work much harder than other characters.
She has low health and deals low damage. Her strengths seem to lie in mobility and crowd control, which can only go so far.
She has good mix-ups with her Shield Tackle options, but even then it can sometimes feel like a guessing game on my own part.
The Shield Crush ability can only be followed up by the Spear Sweep, so I don't really see a good use for the Sweep other than to keep them away which is pretty much only good if you have the life lead or want to throw them off a ledge. This causes Spear Sweep to be heavily telegraphed knowing that it is the only move that Valkyrie can do after Shield Crush.
A second attack on Pouncing Thrust would be nice for added damage since that is a common ability to use and it's the only thing you can use after a successful Shield Tackle (and maybe a successful Spear Sweep?).
I don't know if it's my opponents' good reaction time, but I feel like her light attacks are slow.
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What I've noticed from playing her is that spear sweep is all but useless, it's easily telegraphed and if you do land it you can even land a guaranteed heavy. You have to guess and hope they don't block AND it knocks them so far away you have to dash to them and still hope to even get a light off sometime. The other thing is because it is so telegraphed if you opponent dodges it you sit there like an idiot for 1-2 seconds and get hit by a free heavy, her recovery time for a hard to land combo is insanely long.So I don't even use spear sweep anymore because its so hard to utilize and almost impossible to follow up on.
Her HP pool MAY be low, I can't confirm on that yet but it feels like she has the HP of a assassin but does less damage then them. Either increase her damage to match OR (keyword or, not both) increase her light attack damage. She is weak in both areas.
My only other issue with her is that you have to literally poke you opponent to death, her light attacks feel like pokes and don't really do any damage what-so-ever compared to other "adaptable" classes. It's super frustrating when I have to poke someone to death and a berserker or lawbringer can kill me in 5-6 lights and it takes me around 10.
I played her back in Alpha when she was broken and OP and the nerfs were warranted but she was definitely over nerfed and needs some sort of buff in some area of her kit. She just feels bad and super hard to utilize even for someone like me that has put 50+ hours in her in past alpha's and Betta's
