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Hi there,
I am not here to complain but to make a construtive post
I am a rep 9 Valk. It is a Fantastic Hero, she looks damn good, her moveset is so original and interesting.. BUT, i don't play her anymore :/
Really i love her as much as my Kensei (Main), but she is so much under the average heros efficiency right now... It feels like she is forgotten by Ubi
The parry changes are amazing but it makes her even weaker (bye bye max punish).
What it would be changed in my opinion :
-Her broken recovery time .. OMG don't miss a sweep or you're a dead man.. maybe only a guaranteed light for the opponent if you missed it ?
-The guaranteed GB for opponent if your Dash is blocked .. this is so crazy ! I've heard it is fixed now but i didn't try, have to !
-Her poooor dammages ... Please two lights and one heavy make the same dammages than one heavy of some Heros..
-A light/Heavy combo would be amazing !! Now you have to score two lights to do something interesting and that's so annoying.
-Improve what she can do after a charged back shield bash ! You get only the top light dash guaranteed on that... really ?
-AND ! One usefull way to open ! More than feinting a heavy for shield bash... On this last point, i believe a usefull zone as one like the Aramusha one would be very interesting (first hit fast but weak and a second unblocable and feintable).
I believe it is now the hero which is the most in need of a rework, more than Orochi for example (you've got the stats you know it)
Hope it's gonna help and gonna be heard.. please Ubi make the expression "feelsvalkman" disappear
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Yes, she is underpowered, but she is in a way better spot than Orochi. At least she has some openers and common unblockables. Orochi's only unblockable is his heavy deflect which usualy ain't connecting at high tier, because it's easy to dodge. So I'm pretty sure that Orochi is first on list, because he is in need pretty much more and much more people plays him.
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Well i am curious, what is the Valk unblocable for you ??
Orochi need more a rework ? wow... Orochi can still perform good score easier than Valk for sure.. his zone is damn fast, his top lights make so much dammages.. he didn't has to take risks to score his hits.. Common it is without a doubt not an underpowerd char, he's in the middle.
I agree he needs maybe some changes/buff, but Valk is the most suffering char now.
And don't you think about why only a few plays Valk and a lot plays Orochi then ? I believe you gave the answer yourself by saying that.
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I love how this guy makes a post about how he genuinely feels valkyrie can be changed to be made better and more balanced and someone has to come talking about orochi. We know the orochi is in a bad spot. But this isn't about orochi and you just ruin the validity of the OP by talking about orochi here. That's really unfortunate. Talk about orochi in a orochi post -_-
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I think she needs something on the normal shieldcrush. I did not play her much, but it's frustrating how she risks a free guardbreak for basically nothing, no guaranteed damage, no blind effect, and not even good mixup potential. The normal shieldcrush should at least work as a blind/big stamina drain, but considering how the kensei works now, giving a free light for that move is not that unheard of. They should also give the sweep a better recovery, free dodge attacks or even a free light is fine, but risking a guardbreak for 25 damage is very bad. By the way, her damage is hilariously low, and her defense options are very bad (and she is an assasin/heavy hybrid). And the best thing is, if you get the sweep into a heavy, the enemy gets a free hit on you, because he is in a standing up phase during the heavy and not staggered.
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Here's what I think she needs
1. Better combos. Give her a light heavy heavy and a heavy heavy light.
2. Improve shield crush. This is the big part of the rework. Give it better recovery. Give it a free light. Let it be done from neutral with the input (back and guard break) and if you hold it, you do her superior block charge. She should still be able to do backdash into superior block charge, but it shouldnt be required. It's stupid in my opinion because it's so telegraphed and can be guard broken on reaction. This would make her fantastic without overdoing it. All other superior blocks are done from neutral, why not hers? Her greatest asset is too difficult to use. It only guarantees a light like the other shield bashes or pushes but you have to work soooo hard to get it. Such a garbage move as it is.
3. Improve spear sweep. Give it better recovery. Let people get an execution off the knockdown heavy. It's crazy how she has no gimmick heavies so you rarely see a Valkyrie get an execution off of anything but a guard break. If you don't play Valkyrie, you wouldn't understand how noticeable not having that execution health regen is. It can literally make or break you when other characters can get full health back from an execution and you really have to work for it.
4. Give her more health for the love of all that is holy. It's pathetic. Give her an extra 20 or 30. She barely does any damage so fighting anyone is an uphill battle. She has the weakness of assassin and heavy at the same time. She does no damage and has no health. Being a hybrid hurts the Valkyrie more than it helps.
That's all I got. With these changes you could keep her horrible damage the same because she will be a mixup god. But at the same time you won't feel cheated because it won't do crazy damage. It'll still whittle you down slowly so you have a chance to come back unlike a lot of the other vortex type characters that abuse you
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She also got a nerf because her lights are relatively easy to parry and guarantee a heavy. She has no heavy offense so any character that relies on lights that aren't that fast were nerfed pretty hardOriginally Posted by Tyrjo Go to original post
