The new Yoru changes look like they could finally help him find his place in Valorant’s meta, with more versatility and play-making potential added to his kit. Its Viper buffs last year turned her into one of the strongest controllers in the game, and she is now an incredibly strong pick on maps like Breeze, Icebox, and Bind. Riot has a good track record of balancing agents to bring them into the meta. Now, in Riot’s latest State of the Agents blog, we finally have more details about the changes and a long-awaited release date - the Yoru rework will arrive in Episode 4 Act II, and he’s looking like a brand new man. In response, Riot Games announced plans for a complete Yoru rework last December, with significant improvements to his ability to trick and deceive enemies. Even after the buff to his Blindside flash and Gatecrash teleport in patch 2.06, he continued to see the lowest pick rate in both ranked matches and pro games.
And his teleport ability had a big window of vulnerability at both ends. His fake footsteps didn’t do a great job of tricking anyone.
When the Japanese duelist was first released on Valorant in January 2021, his deception-based kit promised to shake up the game with creative ways to mislead opponents and get the first kill.īut soon the consensus was clear. The Yoru rework we’ve all been waiting for is here at last.
