Cypher buff ideas that lean into his strengths

Posted by Steve

Monday, July 18, 2022 11:48 PM

Many ideas have already been discussed, but I truly believe the best way to buff Cypher is to lean into his strengths.

Chamber strengths: high risk / high reward - use yourself as a sentinel

Killjoy strengths: singular site lockdown

Sage strengths: stalling and support

Cypher strengths: information and global flank/lane watching

Here are my ideas:

  1. My favorite one - giving the camera an alternate fire. Pressing right-click will take a snapshot of all enemies in its line of sight, which will show the enemies position one time only. It will share a cooldown with the dart, and enemies will not need to remove anything

  2. Give camera an alternate mode to stay on. It will passively gather info for your minimap but will be visible to enemies.

  3. Only make camera visible if dart is shot or enemies is within a certain distance. Audio cue not removed though.

  4. Give Cypher a third tripwire - simple enough, no nerf needed with tripwires already being relatively weak.

Thoughts?

References

  • https://www.reddit.com/r/VALORANT/comments/w1poqk/cypher_buff_ideas_that_lean_into_his_strengths/
  • https://reddit.com/w1poqk

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