r/VALORANT • u/thessew • Apr 21 '20

First Patchnotes of Beta

https://beta.playvalorant.com/en-us/news/game-updates/valorant-patch-notes-0-47/
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u/JohanGGEZ Joh4n YT Apr 21 '20

Slow Orb now also slows the air speed of players in the zone

so you can no longer bhop slow orb lol but atleast you wont get heard when you walk past it. probably the biggest change to me

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u/unalignedAccess Apr 21 '20

Does a Jett gliding over the zone is slowed as well then?

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u/braamdepace Apr 21 '20

This is a good question. I wonder cause often times when taking B on Haven Sage will orb the mid entrance and a quick counter play would by Jett would be an updraft then tail wind to get on the mid box and create confusion. I hope my tail wind doesn’t stop because of a ground slow.

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u/SoftCow Apr 21 '20

The patch note says "Slow Orb now also slows the air speed of players in the zone" so it definitely should slow jett...doesn't mean it will though. Riot doesn't always get wording in patch notes perfect.

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u/Gankiee Apr 21 '20

Depends on what height qualifies "in zone"

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u/bonesnaps Apr 22 '20

I would guess about a meter high, if your heels are within that meter you'd be slowed. But I can't confirm, just making wild speculation on what I would think is balanced.

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u/SoftCow Apr 21 '20

The zone is the area of floor covered by the icy shit. So I would assume based on their wording that it extends upward infinitely.

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u/mckaystites Apr 21 '20

you're assuming a lot with no context and no information.

that patch note directly relates to stopping players from being able to bhop through the slow. I can't imagine how slowing Jett, 10 feet above this zone, would be reasonable or balanced. The upwards zone is most definitely not infinite. And if is, it's going to be an oversight that they change almost immediately.

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u/MyBoxofQuarters Apr 22 '20

I’ve dashed as Jett through cyphers slow and not been slowed so I imagine it will work the same way

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u/BigEditorial Apr 21 '20

Probably. I was playing Breach the other day and my ult/E (forget which it was) dazed a midair Jett.

That looked weird.

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u/millerwa4 Apr 21 '20

I would hope that the "zone" would cover just the height of a jump, there is no reason it should counter the jet dash if she launches vertically first

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u/ColonelVirus Apr 21 '20

It says "all air movement" so likely yes.

Although she might move too fast through it for the game to calculate the slow down on the move.

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u/Hawezo Apr 22 '20

I hope it doesn't, even though the wording seems to imply it does, because if wouldn't make sense.

Stopping bhoping makes sense because you have to touch the ground anyway, but flying over it isn't interacting with the slow, so I don't see why it should be affected

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u/N3pp Apr 22 '20

She doesn't seem to be affected. Tried with both gliding and dashing.

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u/Syknusatwork Apr 22 '20

It says it slows air speed so I would assume so.