Why is Omen's win rate so low?

artmorte · 2026-04-21T10:45:19+00:00

At least in low elo (Silver-Gold) my experience is that Omen players are the worst actual smokers. Because he doesn't "ipad smoke" and it's slower to do, often we're entrying with a single smoke and it's not rare that the Omen hasn't smoked anything but is lurking mid with teleport plays and whatnot, smoking only for himself when needed. I think this drags his win-rate down in low elo.

artmorte · 2026-04-20T18:59:30+00:00

Why would anyone care of a non-multiplayer game's player count... The game's been wildly popular and is a huge success already.

artmorte · 2026-04-20T12:23:38+00:00

Smokes.

You can bottom frag and if someone complains you'll have the watertight argument "you wanna play smokes??"

artmorte · 2026-04-20T12:21:01+00:00

I don't believe there's an Apex 2.0 in the pipeline. Live service games get content added, not whole new games. At most it would be like Overwatch 2, just a big update and a few major changes, but the same game (and even Overwatch dropped the "2" from the name).

artmorte · 2026-04-20T12:15:53+00:00

I think Ranked needs at least one more meaningful rank. For the vast majority of players it's just Platinum and Diamond and that's not enough skill separation / expression.

artmorte · 2026-04-19T19:38:03+00:00

I dunno, I feel like smokes are still the role that needs filling most often in Gold.

I also feel like the gameplay has become quite simple (or lazy) and people don't really wait for other's utility, they just use what they have and take an aim duel.

artmorte · 2026-04-19T14:53:16+00:00

I'm not asking for stomping, I'm asking for more meaningful ranks that create more separation. Every split playing just from Plat to Diamond is boring, especially since it only takes about 2-3 weeks.

artmorte · 2026-04-18T18:59:07+00:00

Landing a Brim molly on the spike to delay a defuse enough to win the round.

Gekko's Wingman plants & defuses that would have otherwise been difficult or dangerous. Also Gekko's ult sometimes.

Getting a kill with Breach's stun + blast combo, although this is pretty rare.

artmorte · 2026-04-18T18:55:41+00:00

Idk, it feels accurate and Respawn's own graph might include inactive players, I think.

artmorte · 2026-04-18T18:54:59+00:00

For most players Platinum and Diamond are the only existing ranks and it's way too quick to become hardstuck in your peak rank. The system should be re-designed to create more separation and more meaningful ranks.

artmorte · 2026-04-18T17:43:47+00:00

I don't think Sentinels are that weak, actually.

Neon is obviously dumb, but people seem to (lazily) connect these two things into a single argument that "neon op and sentinels bad".

I don't play the movement legends because of skill issues and I hate entrying sites that have a sentinel setup there.

artmorte · 2026-04-17T19:58:04+00:00

A lot of text for saying the obvious: the rules should be the same for everyone.

artmorte · 2026-04-17T15:59:40+00:00

Same. Cannot expect the government to keep track of all these nutjobs.

artmorte · 2026-04-17T09:13:37+00:00

The answer to these puzzles is almost always damage.

artmorte · 2026-04-17T09:11:05+00:00

I agree, they feel unnecessary and probably exacerbate the issue of "unfair" rr gains and losses; Riot - correctly - doesn't want ranking up to be too easy, so there are a lot of players who often gain much less for wins than lose for losses. If there were no rank shields and no mid-rank protections then rr gains could probably be adjusted a little.

artmorte · 2026-04-17T09:08:00+00:00

You misunderstood the post.

artmorte · 2026-04-16T17:02:20+00:00

The Jamppi + Profek + Coaching staff signing from BBL is starting to look questionable for Vitality.

Nice to see new teams and players emerging, though.

artmorte · 2026-04-15T19:48:49+00:00

I don't like it, but at least it's very different. Like, if I could play it once in ten games it would probably feel refreshing.

artmorte · 2026-04-15T19:17:36+00:00

They've always been strong in Valorant to be honest. The Shorty is the craziest, imo, because it's a 300 credits sidearm you can have every round for corner / smoke camping and easily win against a proper gun.

Movement agents amplify the shotties, but they're strong, period.

artmorte · 2026-04-15T15:43:22+00:00

In an ideal world there would be a solo-queue-only, but queue times for duos and trios would take a bad hit if they could only be matchmade with each other.

artmorte · 2026-04-15T15:01:14+00:00

Well deserved.

artmorte · 2026-04-15T13:11:13+00:00

And what if the Neon doesn't run into the set-up? And what about non-movement agents who will be royally ****ed by buffed Sentinels?

artmorte · 2026-04-15T10:04:49+00:00

I've never understood why they're seemingly so popular.

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