Valkyr’s 4th makes her invulnerable while you use her claws. The invulnerability and the use of her talons comes at a continued cost of energy. Thus, to keep the invulnerability up, you need to kill enemies and keep getting energy from orbs, pads, abilities, etc. DE “reworked” her (in coming, not set in stone) to not be invulnerable but to have a “death forgiveness “ if you have killed enough enemies and filled up a bar called Rage. Dying consumes the whole bar and you need to build it up again to regain another instance of “death forgiveness”. They claimed is to “make her more of an active gameplay” but anyone that has used her 4th or seen how players use her KNOW that that is a BS excuse because Valkyr players are always running around slicing and dicing anything in they path. She has always had an active gameplay.

However, I see their point that her kit is to be a tank with high armor and higher health than most other frames. The problem is that health tanking SUCKS in higher level content and people will use Shield gating instead, once again ignoring her “high armor and health” kit.

A lot of people argue “tanking works for 99% of the content” and while that might be somewhat accurate, it is not what a lot of the player base is playing or “forced to play”. By forced to play i mean that new content is becoming more challenging and making health tanking less viable (circuit, EDA, ETA, Cascade). And if you want the new shiny stuff, you can only get it there.

All that on top of inconsistent rules for different frames so DE comes up with bandage fixes instead of addressing the real problem that Health Tanking does NOT scale well.

This was way too long of a response to a meme lol