How is Valkyrie rework? | Forums

[MumfordDaHound]

I'm gone for a week and dying to know how the new valk rework is... Any vets have a say??

[Baturai]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA UBi Did it again AHAHAAHA !!!

[Wes8504]

All variations of 3 hit chain, sweep is now moved to "X" or "Square" instead of back heavy now has a direct follow up heavy instead of a normal overhead heavy. It can now also sweep friendly players too.. Shield Crush guarantees a light. Shield Charge can no longer knock others down. GB Recovery is now in line with everyone else.

[MumfordDaHound]

Is it any good, she better? I read the notes but I'm wondering how it works while actually playing.

[Zhantay]

All variations of 3 hit chain, sweep is now moved to "X" or "Square" instead of back heavy now has a direct follow up heavy instead of a normal overhead heavy. It can now also sweep friendly players too.. Shield Crush guarantees a light. Shield Charge can no longer knock others down. GB Recovery is now in line with everyone else.

Having 1-2 Valks on your team tripping the entire squad is a little annoying

Every 2 moves goes into the sweep. her deflect bleed can now combo which also means it can lead into the sweep.

If Valk players don't use her mix-ups she is still going to be weak. (Xbox)

[Vakris_One]

Is it any good, she better? I read the notes but I'm wondering how it works while actually playing.

Slightly better in 1v1 but they completely got rid of her utility in 4v4s as she's now more of a nuisance to her own team in a gank rather than helpful.

All in all it really does nothing for her other than making her slightly more fluid to play.

[Dry.Fish]

I really don't know what to say so my input is not that valid, but so far I'm not liking it.

[DaggerGrace]

Valkyrie went from useless to fantastic. She isn't in the D tier with Aramusha or Shugoki anymore. But still, evidentally Ubisoft's idea of a rework is to give them a 50/50 attack, and that's just sad.
Dont get me wrong, I love the new update with Valkyrie, but it just feels like they slapped on a new coat of paint and called it new. Now she can soft feint her attacks into a shoulder bash, which can no longer be punished if she misses.

[Valkmain67]

I love everything about the Valkyrie in For Honor. She’s a strong, defensive and very technical character. Before the update I never felt that Valkyrie needed anything other than a slight damage buff on her heavies.. I mean like 25 dmg??? Pathetic but other than that she was a very efficient and rewarding character to play as.

As soon as I finished updating and jumped into training mode, I tried some of my pre-rework combos and oh boy .... NO SHIELD BASH AFTER HEAVY LIKE WUT?? like that was bread and butter and crucial for playing mind games with the opponent.

The recent valk rework is very disappointing Ubisoft and you changed things that were unnecessary. All of her defensive attributes were stripped away ( I’ll get to those later) She is no longer fun to play. And yeah she has more chains but for some reason its so predictable.

Full guard is pretty much usless now.. can no longer dodge out of it to avoid kicks or deflect an attack, can no longer knock heroes to the ground with charged shield bash (which was F****** so cool!), and was crucial for 4v4 battles. Canceling the full guard on a controller just feels so unnatural and inefficient. I just dont even bother with it anymore. This really sucks because in my opinion Valkyrie’s defensive attributes were very powerful and I know that the meta had changed but I still had no problem slaying orochi’s and shamas pre-rework.

She no longer gets a sweep off a guard break.


PLEASE UBISOFT UNWORK VALKYRIE!!!

[pitbullben5]

I believe that Valkyrie is much weaker now after the rework because there’s so much moves that’s been removed from Valkyrie moveset.Lets start with the spear sweep changing the input down and heavy to guardbreak was weird decision because there was no problems with that and that decision didn’t really bother me but take some time to get used to.They changed the speed of the sweep but every person I’ve come across has managed to dodge and get that free guardbreak they did change the recovery time on the sweep to 400ms which you can’t guardbreak out of stamina and get still get you.I don’t they removed the rams headbutt because no one complained about it and it was balanced.They also changed the 2nd light by making it faster on 400ms the sweep punish deals 35 damage.Valkyire now has 5 new chains and having these chains have completely changed Valkyrie playstyle but she didn’t need 5 more chains she only needed 2 more.The shield tackle was nerfed and it does not knock you opponent on the ground this was not worth it because if you missed it was a guaranteed guardbreak.The only thing that was a massive change on Valkyrie was the shield crush because it is faster and when hit it’s a guaranteed light which you can chain after.The recovery time is now at 600ms and they said that if you miss the shield crush you could counter a guardbreak but this not true I’ve tried many times and people still got the guardbreak of me I think this is a bug which needs fixing.
In my opinion I think Valkyrie is weaker at the moment because I think she has been bugged and some of the patch notes saying that she do it but dosent in the gameplay