...What Happened to Valkyrie? | Forums

[DeaIman]

I'm generally fine with the overall balance in For Honor, every character has their unique playstyle which is cool. I myself am a big fan of spears so naturally the 2 most interesting characters for me are Valkyrie and Nobushi.

I've always had a liking for spears equipped with a shield and Valkyrie has that awesome 300-esque fighting style to her which I absolutely love. However I can't help but feel since the early testing Valkyrie has been nerfed a bit too hard. She's IMO by far the weakest character in the game. Why?

1. Her Damage

Her damage is undoubtedly the lowest in the game, so in a duel you'll have to be very, very, very good since all you can really do is remove a fraction of their health - even if you land a successful chain attack. Most other characters will deal that amount of damage with one(!) heavy attack, if not more damage.

2. Her Reach

For being equipped with a spear her reach is absolutely despicable. Since her damage is so low, she feel like the kind of character that would utilize her stuns and knock-downs along with good reach to wear down the enemy - but is she capable of doing that? No.

Even her knock down ability which I would argue is her one good attack knocks them just out of her reach so while you can knock them down, you can't hit them at all. Makes it an utterly, utterly useless ability other than trying to knock people off of maps or into spikes.

The distance at which you can charge is great, but the entire thing is nullified cause you can't deal any damage afterwards.

3. Her Speed

It feels as though her attacks are as slow as the Raider's attack, if maybe a tiny bit faster. This in my opinion plays against her playstyle, looking at her and the initial feel of her as I said is that she should rely on speed and good reach to poke them even if the damage is very little - you would have an advantage if you play her right. Let them get close and you'd be at an disadvantage - but as it currently stands, you're always at an disadvantage cause her speed is so slow.

4. Her Stamina

Since she's such a light character, one would thing her stamina would at least be decent. Is it? No, not anywhere near decent, do a knock-down and follow up with a heavy attack and you'll be at the brink of exhaustion.

Summary

Unfortunately she is to me the most useless character in the game, especially in duels. In Dominion she can be useful, but if I were going for a victory I'd pick any other character.

Really, Nobushi does everything Valkyrie does but better and more. I really hope Valkyrie will see better days soon, I love her design but god damn is she awful to play.

[Dehumanizer86]

She wasn't even in the early testing phases. She made it into a closed technical test, everyone who played her loved her, everyone who played against her hated her. She was OP, not disputing that fact, but the storm of complaints on the forums made Ubi swing the hammer so hard that the only way to see what she was supposed be like is by playing the singleplayer campaign. She's in there in all her glory. Fast attacks, hard hits, godly reach and very little recovery time.

The Valkyrie in her current state isn't even a shadow of her former self but since Ubi have proven time and again during the alpha/beta tests how quick they are to make balance changes and it's now been 3 days since the game went live, i doubt they have much positive in store for her. I love the kit, i'm already Rep2 lv10, but the character is making me work for every little fight - nothing comes with ease. Tough love and lots of it.

[TheNioi]

and even if you knock them down and use your jump to reach them. even Warlords and crusader are quick enough to stand up and hit you before teh valkyrie regenerate from the jump. so the knock down combos are useless. So the spear sweep combo makes near 0 damage and the shield crush to spear sweep makes a littel bit more damage but still like zero.

[DeaIman]

She wasn't even in the early testing phases. She made it into a closed technical test, everyone who played her loved her, everyone who played against her hated her. She was OP, not disputing that fact, but the storm of complaints on the forums made Ubi swing the hammer so hard that the only way to see what she was supposed be like is by playing the singleplayer campaign. She's in there in all her glory. Fast attacks, hard hits, godly reach and very little recovery time.

The Valkyrie in her current state isn't even a shadow of her former self but since Ubi have proven time and again during the alpha/beta tests how quick they are to make balance changes and it's now been 3 days since the game went live, i doubt they have much positive in store for her. I love the kit, i'm already Rep2 lv10, but the character is making me work for every little fight - nothing comes with ease. Tough love and lots of it.

Ya that's what I was referring to, not the betas. Which is why I said 'early' testing phases :P Her low damage and low health would be very justified had her reach and speed been good, that way if you'd play her right you could poke your enemy to death.

Now she's just awful at everything she does. Only thing she does is look cool - that she does a very good job of. I wish I had the patience to play her in duels but I don't