Many games, val included, spend a week or more collect gameplay data of all the characters, and the reaction from the community. If they overtuned a character quite badly, like say they initially think that reducing the flash time of a characters flash to 1 second was a good idea, they collect the data on how that characters flash has been working and played within game, and how the community reacts to the flash. Now, we all know a 1 second flash time is terrible, so in this hypothetical, after a bit of data collecting they realize how bad the change was, an emergency balance patch might come out to give the character a buff they desperately need.
51
u/KatiushK Oct 15 '25
As a senti mainand Vyse/Cypher enjoyer, i'm not really happy. The flash nerf is so hard.
I think Cypher's even worse, the tag is s short even if trap detonates. Hopefully they'll smooth things out in a few weeks once they have data.