First off, let me say, Brimstone is really underrated. His molotov is great at staving off pushes, and his smokes are the only ones that can be set up quickly at any range while having no indication that they're dropping to the enemy until their down. His ult is great for area denial, and against uncoordinated teams can lead to them scattering and being picked off easily. That said, from the time this game dropped, his stim pack has always felt useless. Cause it basically is. I'm sure no one here needs me to explain why, so lets get to the point of this post, the buffs.

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Now one thing to keep in mind is that Brimstone is a controller. Not a sentry, not a duelist, but a controller. He wants to be able to leave a meaningful impact on any battle he's in, even if he's not directly participating in, and when he is participating, he wants to be able to change the flow of battle to favor is team. Whether that means blocking off a point of access to an area to make a push or a defense more effective with is moly, or blocking a snipers vision to allow his team to move more freely with his sky smoke, he wants to control. The concept of the stim pack is spot on, its his unique way of helping his team push by giving them a buff to their firing. The problem is, in practice, the buff doesn't mean anything. Its a nice visual effect, but the 15% fire rate is garbage, and if the enemies fall back, the effect is gone.

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Now for some buff ideas. If you wanna effect the fire rate, 20% fire rate buff is actually useful, and maybe even a reload speed and weapon switch speed increase to really make staying in the effect area worth while. Another idea is for it to give a defense buff if you walk into it instead if an firing speed bonus. Or maybe it regens shield. My favorite option, and one that I definitly stole from this fine post: https://www.reddit.com/r/VALORANT/comments/jr6jch/brimstone_stim_beacon_buff/ is for it to give a flash resistance effect. Valorant is flash simulator 2021, and giving his stim beckon a defence buff to it is insane, and would make Brimstone actually viable. It would allow him to give the opposition a reason to think twice about throwing a flash when they see the stim pack, as it would be wasted against a stimmed agent.

In conclusion, I think Brimstone is a fine agent already, his other abilities are just fine as they are right now. Just the fact that he has a basically empty ability slot keeps him from really shining, and once its fixed, shine he will. Thanks for reading my post, Mori-Jung out!