Apex Legends dev reveals scrapped Valkyrie changes as players demand nerf Respawn\/EAAn Apex Legends dev has revealed that Respawn planned a nerf for Valkyrie but decided to scrap it given how it would shake up the meta. Ever since Valkyrie was first introduced to Apex Legends back in Season 9, the Winged Avenger has proven to be a popular choice with fans of the battle royale. However, she\u2019s completely taken over the top level meta recently. It is now difficult to drop into a game of Apex and not see at least a few teams running a Valkyrie in their composition, mostly because of her Skyward Dive Ultimate and how she\u2019s able to get a free reposition after taking flight. There have been plenty of calls for her to receive a nerf, given how she\u2019s taken over the meta, but Respawn have been hesitant to do so. Though, they had planned a change that would have knocked her down a peg or two. Valkyrie nerf scrapped by Apex Legends devs After shutting down the idea of an \u201canti-scan\u201d character, Respawn\u2019s John \u2018JayBiebs\u2018 Larson was quizzed on the idea of a nerf for Valk as she has become a \u201ccompulsory\u201d pick in-game. \u201cSo funnily enough, we were close to pulling the trigger on removing beacon scan from her,\u201d Larson replied. \u201cAt least remove that so she\u2019s not an auto pick in comp, right? But on second thought, we realized it may be counter productive.\u201d The Apex dev noted that players would simply get around that nerf by combining Valk, Gibraltar, and any of the scan legends in a trio. \u201cSo we figured we could go back to the drawing board while we let this comp split play out with more legend diversity,\u201d he added. While players would, no doubt, prefer to see Valkyrie nerfed sooner rather than later, the fact that Respawn have been toying with changes should be good news. It remains to be seen as to how, and when, she\u2019ll eventually be nerfed but it feels safe to say that it it is coming before long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Apex Legends dev reveals scrapped Valkyrie changes as players demand nerf Respawn\/EAAn Apex Legends dev has revealed that Respawn planned a nerf for Valkyrie but decided to scrap it given how it would shake up the meta. Ever since Valkyrie was first introduced to Apex Legends back in Season 9, the Winged Avenger has proven […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}