Valorant's Most HATED Agent 

Going into her ult state should mute the team chat lmfao

I guess changing the flash mechanism would be the best and leaving the rest untouched would balance her out… it’s not reyna that is terrorising the lower ranks it’s smurfs.

The sheer amount of efforts that went into making this video is downright commendable, great job!

i think the editing is really nice, calming and deeply detailed! i think the video gave a nice understanding that will appeal to low and high ranked players. nice video!

Man your story telling and video editing is so great, makes the topic more engaging and interesting to watch

The way you edit deserves so so much recognition!!! And your voice is soothing and calming to listen to, which just makes me want to watch more of your videos! Great video, I have subscribed. ♡

Honestly props to the editing, the style & pace.. very digestible video. I could totally see a beginner at Val understand all of the points of this video. Also the theoretical synergy of reyna + harbor sounds super interstin. What would happen if PRX used the LOUD comp but replaced the jett for reyna? seems like itd be great lmaom

this video is so well made, calming and informative at its best, good job you earned your's a new sub!

Such a well edited video the attention to sounds is great and I can see future improvements

great quality video man, keep it up bro! U earned my subscribe❤

I really love the textures you use in this video. You've really put a lot of effort into this.

I kinda feel “LEMMiNO” vibes in this video, probably because of the music and flow of the sequence. On the other hand, this is well done my friend!

I freaking love this editing style and the way you divide the video into several chapters makes it even more clear and entertaining to watch. Keep up the good work !

love the edit, great work 👍

I think another reason Paper Rex works well with Reyna is that they always use Skye, and they use maps that can benefit from Reyna. 1. Ascent is a good example where they can use Reyna, as usually it is a simple map with a lot of open space. It can capitalize of Reyna's flashes for fast takes. Complimenting Paper Rex's aggressive playstyle. While on Pearl, they use Phoenix as it has a lot of close corners that Phoenix's flash can capitalize on (and his wall can cut off space, especially in open spaces such as B site.) 2. Other than harbor, Skye is also used. It is because Reyna's flash can force players to look at the flash and Skye can flash the enemy team. Essentially making a flash that cannot be countered. Look, get flashed. Turn around, you'll be killed by Paper Rex. Good Video!!

How do you only have 4K subs, The quality of this video is absolutely Insane. Keep it up

This is very good video, love the editing, the bgm and the matery of the video. 😁

bro its was an amazing video and man the editing 🔥🔥🔥🔥

i really like the editing and bgm of your videos. Well presented too. Thank you

Loving this type of video essay style for Valorant content!

love the content style, subbed!

Amazing editing style :) subbed and inspired

incredible editing! you have so much under your belt already, you have an insanely bright filmmaking future! good job

the editing is so good, it remind me of lemmino in some way, love it!

Insane editing and pacing, very cool content bro !

amazing video, love the choice of classical music :)

Great video. Unfortunately this won’t stop the instalocking Reynas. At least we have Something tho.

amazing editing, i love it

To make Reyna’s interactions seem less selfish overall: -Leer applies a status called ‘fear’/‘intimidation’ which obscures the minimap, adds a slight tunnel vision effect, and muffles sounds. Fear is applied upon looking at the eye and goes away gradually, independent of whether the eye is active and applying nearsight. Leer eyes have a shorter lifespan. -Soul orbs can now be shot by the enemy team. Soul orbs take 100 hp to break, and soul orbs which are being devoured are similarly destructible. Soul orbs being used by devour stop healing when broken. Soul orbs can be picked up by Reyna and used to replenish her leers, like ultimate orbs. -Reyna’s ult applies ‘fear’/‘intimidation’ in a radius around her, denying the enemy team information when she uses her ultimate. The amount of time that kills extend Reyna’s ultimate is slightly increased. Reyna now operates better as a duelist in a similar niche as Yoru, operating to confuse the enemy team, especially against uneven/solo defensive coverages. Sentinels holding a site by themselves are now put under more pressure after having ‘fear’ applied. ‘Fear’ has diminishing returns against a stacked site for Reyna individually, but ‘fear’ allows for Reyna to have better team synergy. Reyna’s utility benefits team engagements by decreasing the information that the enemy team has about Reyna’s team’s map presence, and Reyna’s utility overall encourages team play with short guerrila-style skirmishes. These rewards from this expanded utility are reaped by strategic team play and not necessarily by selfish play from Reyna. Reyna has increased synergy with Gekko because of the play style her modified utility incentivizes.

Outstanding job on this video, extremely well edited and engaging. As someone who is admittedly a reyna instalock atm I have no answers for your last question, and I even think cycling her out completely would be good for the game's overall health. If you want to be helpful on site pushes while on attack your leer absolutely has to be paired with another flash to have any sort of fighting chance at being a productive entry during an exec.

I mean to be honest i like reyna a lot, the last buff they gave him was to make her leer blind from any distance but is not really that impactful because it doesnt have a really long range cast, i think a good buff that can incorporate her into proplay as well will be that his leer work kinda like a omen smoke, when you can choose how far the leer will cast just to more room to teamplay but otherwise i think she is perfect

Could try and make her kit a bit more similar to the other agents from a design perspective. She has her own role and playstyle so i wouldn't change her kit radically. But one thing that is problematic for reyna is her complete dependency on kills, that make her less consistent than other agents. Something that would make her more consistent, for everybody and pro play as well would be to make her E (the dismiss) be an ability she can always use, and doesnt require a kill. This is her default ability that she has and that is recharged after 2 kills, like any other duelist. Her Q (the heal) would still work like it used to, requiring a kill to be activated, so we can keep the orbs and overall her narrative intact. For the ult, it would basically work the exact same way it does now but one little thing it could do to accomodate for the new E is when it gets popped, it refreshes the E cooldown. But thats it. No more dismiss on kill. This will make her rhythm completely change. From going to 1 kill > dismiss to going from 2 kills > possibly dismiss. Her playstyle will be intact but this should also add more ways for reyna players to manuever her with more freedom. They could take angles with less risk of being killed, they could just be scouting for enemies completely in the open and dismissing as soon as they see them etc.. etc...

It’s funny how almost any Valorant video about the competitive scene always is about paper Rex

I did homework while watching this video lmao, it kinda felt like a ted talk about valorant! I like it!

bro made it look like a world war 2 documentary with that editing style 💀💀

Amazing editing! Keep it up

It's not the agent, it's the player.

I feel like here ability to destroy lower ranks comes from the healing mechanic. In lower ranks players have worse aim and often count on enemies being just as bad, or having been hit before. When Reyna players, especially in low ranks, have better aim then their enemies, the chances of players getting a kill on her shrinks so far that she starts dominating the game as she can hit her enemies sooner and more precise while also being able to heal back to full health after getting a kill. But in higher ranks, where the gaps between the players aim gets smaller, she looses all of her advantages as her abilities become more and more useless. An idea to fix this issue would be removing her ability to heal, giving her a new ability and buffing her dismiss, but leaving the automatic heal that comes with her Ult. We could buff Reynas movement speed while she dismisses and consider making it so she doesnt need a kill for it. While she is in her Ult, a kill could grand a health boost that is slower than it is now. As for a new ability to take the place of the self heal, i dont have anything figured out

another reason to nerf chamber

sound editing is perfecttt. where did you learn those sound editing skills?

I really appreciate the hard work you put into the video, but isn't it kinda dark and quite scary ;-; I thought I was watching a recap of a horrible crime. Btw, the content of this video is really good. Great job

great support from here, your video is fairly precise describing the situation what i've encountered. Hope your channel get more views.

Video is well edited but I feel the points as to why she was bad could’ve been made in a much shorter amount of time with the same amount of information. Also would like to add that PRX like to combo Reyna flash with Skye flash to make even more space and chaos.

Maybe if the eye had like 150 hp and lasted a bit longer it would be more useful in team play? Especially if paired with a flash. Also if she could only heal her actual HP and no armor or maybe even channel her heal back to an ally? And her ult would keep the shield overheal so it would be that much better, well, kinda. But the shield heal would still need tweaking, so as you know she heals 100 hp over all, but maybe the shield healing could take 'double energy' so like If she is 50 HP she would heal to 150 (including shield) but with this tweak she would only have 125.

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i love this type of videos man

i like your style of editing in this video, keep it up

really good video mate

i love this editing style

Another point to the "Exception rule" is that her leer is strong when combined with a Skye flash. The enemy will either have to dodge the flash & end up getting killed while looking back OR the enemy will have to break the leer and end up getting flashed by the Skye (and eventually killed or backed off).

Here's what I do to tune the agent for both ranked & pro-play: - Dismiss as has been mentioned around a lot should be longer and/or make you move a bit faster in it - To tweak the annoyance if playing with reyna in low ranks I'd nerf the healing from the Lifesteal (perhaps simply removing the overheal would work?) - The flash should be un-shootable and go on for a similar duration to omen's paranoia - The ult needs complete reworking. I'm not sure which direction they'd take it in but currently it is pretty close to the worst ult in the game (unless your aim is spot on).

Great video! with what did you edit it?

bro the edit kinda terrified me bro😧😨😨,btw nc edit

That was a great, concise video

The agent needs to be reworked. There is no other way around this issue imo

Great video man

Superb video brother! 👏

Such cool work

Maybe a kill/recharge mechanic for her devour/dismiss. Similar to yoru tp, it rewards and encourages players getting kills and entrying for the team but doesnt go overboard since it requires good mechanical skill. It buffs her momentum but doesnt affect anything else.

this is a good editing style.

Love this video style! Curious what software you used to make it. After effects? Premiere Pro? or something else? Thx

very nice vid! loved it

make her heal 75 hp and just like skye, say that theyre blinded when the reyna flashes

Great video. Keep it up

Reyna shoots very fast on ult, making her pretty nice for low ranks where people dont rely on headtaps. Not just that, but when people start dodging flashes, you combine leer with a normal flash

changing her flash is the only answer to make her viable for pro play while still keeping the root of reyna, i think making the flash like gekko except a nearsite where you throw it and it keeps traveling and bounces etc would be sick

during the beta and the initial days i remember playing reyna and dominating matches. those were the good days!

Nerf: she cant heal shields Buff: give her the option to buy a free Dismiss (200-300 Creds) so she can fall back even if she misses her shot, but if she gets a kill she keeps the free Dismiss. If she cant heal that much anymore she will be worse in lower rankes ,but the free dismiss should make her a better entry in the higher ranks because she can fall back easier if something goes wrong

Only way of actually implementing her into the pro-scene at large would be a full on rework of her devour, dismiss and empress abilities, but how exactly that would look like I have no idea.

Harbour Reyna synergy? Didn't see that coming.

I feel like they should make the flash keep moving forward similar to gekkos flash and the nearsight distance is further

very well edited

great job. very nice video!

Amazing video!

Imagine reyna flash was sorta like gekkos, where if you dont shoot it it pops like a regular flash, imagine that

I agree with everyone else saying the editing is super good. You may wanna spell check the captions that you put into your own video though. Examples include: 4:12 "Jett, Raze, Neon, and even some cases Yoru" instead of "jet raised neon and even some cases Yoru" 4:42 "and requires" instead of "and or cause" Missing punctuation, mostly commas, or excessive punctuation like at 6:22.

I think that nerfing so she cannot restore that much shield or making that shield last for less time would make her easier for lower ranks to counter and making her flash to blind enemies on the sight of the flash like gekko's flash or a little bit more duration (since It's breakable breakable) and also making able to have a short distance mod and a bit longer one like Kay/O's flash would help her in higher ranks without changing to much the impact on lower ones

change dismiss into usable at all times, and with a longer startup time, change the whole meta from getting away to just entrying, use it before entrying, go onto site, invincible but still visible

id say the best way to change her would be too remove her "devour" and give her 3 dismiss and 3 flashes, or give the flashes something like 125 or 150 hp.

What about giving the flash a little more hp, but the center of it give a headshot bonus. Wouldn’t cause pro flicks to need to be more accurate but ranked pretty much stay the same. Also add the ability to send it out shorter or farther by holding your fire button down.

3 or 4 flash, speed casting (multiple cast at once is quicker), almost 0 hp for the flash. Lower rank players only need to hit 1 bullet while the flash retains the function, to disrupt the enemy crosshair. High rank/pro play benefits from multiple targets that the enemy has to shoot before the flash clears. This also gives reyna players the option to conserve the flash (use only one to maybe gamble entry/find info), and choose engagement wisely.

PaperRex just tell us how to play Reyna with a good com and good results in pro scene (most of the time) even Phoenix, this show how they adapt these agents so well to be suitable to play in pro scene and I think PRX is the only team who have played all 6 duelist

something is like uzi from lol but in valorant paper rex is playing around him more than other teams do

One small correction: Reyna gets to use her signature abilities by enemies that she had hit die, so no matter if she gets a kill or an assist or not, as long as she hit an enemy before the enemy dies, she gets the orb.

Wait i thought what made reyna viable by paper rex is combining her with pop flashes agent, most notibly Skye, so enemy will have either shoot reyna leer or skye flash, ignoring the two option will gave them disadvantages as if you dont destroy leer, it'll give you nearsight and if you don't Destroy skye flash, well its self-explanatory except you're on really good angle that enemy will expect you on that angle later to be flashed

While Harbor is somewhat needed to make Reyna work you seem to have missed Reyna's need for Skye as well. PRX partners Reyna's eye with Skye's flash. The enemies are forced to be blinded either by the eye or by the flash making the eye harder to deal with than it would be normally if it's just thrown alone. Any enemy trying to destroy the eye will be blinded by Skye's flash but if they turn away from Skye's flash they still can't look back without problems because the eye is still there and still needs to be destroyed.

Leer is strong when combined with another flash, as it soft-counters anti-flash and allows for secondary duelists to gain space as well as the rest of your team to swing safely if needed. It is also the easiest "flash" in the game as it blinds only the enemy. She's the strongest agent in scramble situations, creating chaos intentionally and forcing players to be ready for obscure and risky swings/angles. I honestly don't know if she should get a change, because I feel like a buff to her space acquisition might send her to overpowered. She's extremely niche but she has her strengths. I guess you could give her the ability to store her souls for a set time instead of having to be in sight of them? Maybe buff movement speed in dismiss?

i already know the porblems with reyna but ur video style made me stay till the end, freaking love it. good work, as for reyna honestly just delete her LMFAO. but yeah reword would be nice, maybe a flash that cant be shot but reduce the duration. maybe her heals only last 15-20sec? im unsure honestly

The answer is prx is full of actual duellist players so they use double duellist comp. Basically something is not the entry something acts like a initiator flashing for their jett or raze (jingg) entry and he follows right behind with double flash. I mean davai is a professional awper and a good one but he barely touches op because prx is a team where they sacrificed their wish to play duellist to become a better team.

I just realized at 5:34 the vandal has 7 bullets and now suddenly to 25. Did the reload animation never occurred?

riot can definition rework her a bit, for example making her abilities not require killing, but instead every time you kill you can recharge your skills, however dismissing and heal can be activated on demand, making her better at info gathering and teamwork, having a teammate peek with her while she is entrying with the dismiss.

Her flash should have a 2 Mode: > Leer: 1 second duration. 100HP NEARSIGHT enemies for 0.5 second > Fake Leer: 1 second duration: 100HP Doesn't NEARSIGHT but if get's shot blinds the enemies for 1 second

give reyna breach stun to improve team work 👍

Never say "you are not something" to a sad person... I promise it won't go down well

LOVED IT! the bright background is a bit annoying, but otherwise it was great!

what if the reyna eye also make the enemy slower ?

I honestly say having her dismiss as something u have for free but you have to get two kills to get it back, that way she can entry w dismiss assisted by a flash and gain space, what about her heal? idk didn't think that far

Personally, I think Reyna needs a mobility boost when dismissing. You are suppose to use it as an escape but your outline is still visible. You get a small movement boost in return.

Imagine you can control distance of reyna flash like omen smoke

I feel. Like making dismiss and devour same ability and adding 1 more ability to her kit