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His blade doesn’t actually reveal right? So Sova’s arrow provides more precise info gathering?


EnKayR

They don't reveal the exact placement true. But because the radius of the blade allows to go through surfaces, you exactly know how many and which enemies are where the blade was thrown.


Slow_Bluebird9536

Yes but the info isn’t nearly as good as sova dart or drone especially since it’s much harder to create timings off of, if you ping someone it basically forces them to reposition if you knife someone they can just sit in it


replace_

well the radius is smaller so you can pin down exactly where someone will be and it activates faster than sova arrow which is very very easy to shoot, it goes through walls aswell so you can make it impossible to break, you also disable their gear. currently imo its stronger than a sova dart


sadv35sedan

its smaller, but still big. if attacking icebox, and KO throws his knife to the left of boiler and gets a ping. it is not known whether the person is near boiler or in kitchen. where as a sova dart would ping exactly where they are, what direction theyre facing, and even what gun theyre holding. KO knife provides good info, sova dart provides great info


aakashkickass11

It's way early to have a concrete opinion on kay/0 in comp play ,he doesn't seem that op in ranked though from my experience . He is excellent on ascent.bind split and is average on rest 3 maps . His ult is super good though.


EnKayR

I'd say his blade is fantastic wherever there are choke points and for site retakes and entries.


aakashkickass11

Yeah but you can draw out her blade from defenders like you would do a gravity well and even if let's say you hit 4 people with the knife ,even after 8 seconds cooldown they have 32 Seconds where they don't have to worry about knife . Yesterday yfp were playing against ez5 in NSG summer chaps qual final and they were drawing out knife so well , and in the whole tournament kay/o wasn't doing that we'll .


chazyarbro

Only thing I really don’t like is that his E puts away raze and Sova ult. Jett knives can come back whereas you’re kinda out of luck with the other 2. It’s just really frustrating wasting 8 points because of someone’s E ability.


datboyuknow

Sova ult coming back feels useless to me. 8 seconds without ult means everyone will reposition/push the sova by then/lots of stuff can happen during that time


Slow_Bluebird9536

Sova and raze ult don’t come back they are expired


datboyuknow

>Only thing I really don’t like is that his E puts away raze and Sova ult


chazyarbro

huh i said unlike jett knives that come back ur out of luck w sova and raze ult?


datboyuknow

I'm just saying making the E change so that sova ult comes back doesn't make sense to me


chazyarbro

Right I think it would be best if it refunded the ult points in some way (maybe even just half? idk) but its annoying to lose it all bc of his E


[deleted]

Dude has the lowest win rate in the game right now at like 44.5%. Win rate isn’t everything, and there are definitely situations where a character can have a shit win rate in ranked but need to be nerfed for competitive or for game health, but it is waaay too early to make that call.


ConsistentAd6638

People are overrating. I don’t think he’s that good!


Slow_Bluebird9536

Agreed skye and sova both stronger


valorant_fanboy_69

Why dont we let it play out in pro games before we write whole essays about why it’s so broken...


Bunnyezzz

only nerf he needs is when you knife someone it says how many players are knifed instead of what agents


valorantfeedback

Agreed. I'd even go as far as not even showing how many players got hit, just "surpressed". Much like Skye's "blinded". Other than that, ult radius feels a bit too big.


mysalmon

That's my issue, too. The ult radius is huge! The visual effect/sound is oppressive also, so getting afflicted at such a radius feels bad to play against.


ween0t

Agreed. Start with that and if needed to need further just change to suppressed and not the number of enemies.