“It’s f*cking Power Rangers,” TenZ on VALORANT’s utility meta

VALORANT was launched with the purpose of providing exact gunplay whereas integrating agent skills so as to add an additional layer of strategic gameplay. Nevertheless, over time, as new brokers and skills have been launched, the steadiness shifted, with utilities overpowering aiming abilities.

Not solely has this made the sport tougher for inexperienced persons, but it surely has additionally left gamers helpless in conditions the place they get overwhelmed by utility spam. This has contributed to the rise of the retake meta, particularly with the introduction of brokers like Tejo and Waylay.

A number of gamers and streamers, together with Tyson ‘TenZ‘ Ngo, extensively known as the face of VALORANT, have expressed frustration over the utility-heavy nature of the sport.

Throughout a latest stream, TenZ reacted to clips showcasing the overwhelming utility dumps defenders have been going through, together with flashes, recon skills, ultimates, and extra, one after the opposite.

“Take a look at this f—ing shit, what’s happening? Pink, inexperienced, blue, lifeless, lifeless,” he mentioned in frustration.

“That is f—ing Energy Rangers, bro. Do you see that? They used all their particular strikes on the identical participant!”

When a viewer requested about methods to counter utility-heavy rushes, TenZ responded: “If they need the positioning, they’re gonna take the positioning. There’s nothing you are able to do to cease them. So, you may as nicely fall again, play retake, and depend on numbers. That’s the one approach to counter it.”

A couple of days in the past, TenZ even talked about on X (Twitter) sarcastically that he generally feels that his colour blindness is momentarily cured due to all the colours on his display.

“VALORANT wasn’t like this earlier than. Clearly, transferring photographs, soar kills, and spam kills occur. However my situation is the sheer dominance of utilities. I really feel like utilities ought to complement exact gunplay, somewhat than simply providing you with trauma,” he added.

Responding to TenZ’s considerations on X, Alex Wheeler, Principal UX Designer at Riot Video games, said that the staff is actively monitoring the state of affairs and dealing on making enhancements. Nevertheless, no timeline has been offered in the intervening time for potential adjustments.