The insurgence of Viper has not been the most enjoyable experience. Given her recent buffs where she chunks 50 health instantly upon entering her smokes, she has become extremely oppressive. Everyone I meet loses morale upon seeing an enemy Viper. In my opinion, this is the least fun meta of all. Even worse than Sage meta. The problem I have with Viper is that she is very much a Sentinel on defense side. Riot has nerfed Killjoy in the past because she could lock down areas and provide information without being in that area. Given this logic, Viper strays out of this constraint because she can wall on one site and smoke orb the other site. I think the damage upon entering her smokes should be limited to her Smoke Orb only.

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The addition of Astra has not been an enjoyable experience either. There is no counterplay to her utility. Unlike Killjoy nanoswarm grenades, her utility cannot be shot out in anyway. You can try to bait out her utility but a good Astra will be able to circumvent that by waiting for team to communicate when to pop her utility. Sadly, I do not know what can balance the use of Astra. She is a controller and initiator on attack and controller sentinel on defense. She does too much. TSM Hazed also believes that Astra does too much.

Who knew that the most cancerous agents to go against would be controllers? Actually what can you expect when both of those controllers play more like sentinels. I main controllers and I even think that Astra and Viper do too much compared to Brimstone and Omen.

TLDR: Viper and Astra play too much like sentinels and are much worse to play against than Sage. In my opinion, it is the worst meta of all.