My honest thoughts about Harbor

Posted by Steve

Monday, October 17, 2022 8:12 AM

I just want to start this off by saying that I've been able to play Harbor early cuz of the pbe so I know what he actually plays like in game for the average player (I'm d1). Now with that being said I just want to make one thing clear.

Harbor is not overpowered. In my opinion he's the complete opposite.

His c ability is a nice ability that you can use to protect yourself while your team walks into site but that's it. You can't stall pushes with it and you'll be finding yourself holding onto the ability a lot of the time on defense. It should 100% get a longer duration and maybe a second charge given it's a cheap and weak ability. An alternative to giving it a second charge would be making the wave bulletproof so it acts as a mini astra wall that can protect your team when you entry (sort of like Newcastle from apex)

His q is a lot better than I thought it would be but it still has its fair share of problems. Starting it off with an unpopular opinion, it doesn't have that much hp. It takes 10-15 vandal shots to break it leaving you with 10 bullets left to kill whoever is ratting in the bubble. I think that they should give it the hp of a sage wall because I think that would be a lot more fair(For whoever disagrees with me and thinks this suggestion is op I just want to remind you that sage can wall herself in with the spike and get a defuse off on some maps so there's literally no difference other than the fact that you can push through the smoke). I also think it should keep the smoke up when the shield is broken because its the closest thing he has to a stalling ability.

His e is the best part of his kit and nearly a perfect controller ability. Nearly. All I want is for it to reach a little longer (for those of you who don't know it doesn't cover the same area as vipers wall) and the duration to increase a little bit so it can justify having a cooldown twice as long as vipers.

His ult needs to be reworked/mega buffed. The concusses are stupidly easy to avoid and it shouldn't cost the same amount of ult points as vipers ult which can literally guarantee you a round. On a balanced team comp the info it gathers doesn't even matter if you have a fade or a sova. I have no idea what to do with it but all I know is that I would rather have any other controller ult (yes even omen) than this one.

One more thing I want to mention. I compared Viper to Harbor a lot in this book report because if Harbor wasn't created to compete with her, he wouldn't be a line smoker.

Now with that being said, I want to go to bed.

References

  • https://www.reddit.com/r/VALORANT/comments/y56kp1/my_honest_thoughts_about_harbor/
  • https://reddit.com/y56kp1

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