Hey everyone and welcome back to this week's
Valorant Weekly News Roundup brought to you
by Skill Capped. My name's Modix and every
Sunday I bring you a video covering all the
Valorant news that has happened in the past
week. This news roundup will be a bit different
from the others because this week we received
a full patch from Riot. We haven't gotten
one of these since act 2 released just over
a month ago and in this patch there were plenty
of agent changes. So today we are going to
be talking about how these changes might shake
up the competitive scene, but we also have
huge news on some new things coming to Valorant
and let's just say you Reaver skin fans might
want to stay tuned.
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So starting us off today we need to talk about
the leaks that were datamined from the patch
1.07. In this patch there were 3 very interesting
leaks some of which might be hints toward
the next agent coming to Valorant.
I'm just going to go ahead and start with
what you have all been waiting for and yes
the Reaver skin will be coming back to valorant,
but it will be experiencing some sort of change.
We don't know what this change is, but the
skin will be updated. We can see this from
this string of code found in the game files:
In this image we can read Soulstealer_NEW.
For those of you that didn't know the name
Soulstealer was a codename for the Reaver
set back in beta so this almost 100% confirms
that we will be seeing the skin set coming
back into the game.
Moving onto our next leak we now know the
weekly challenges for the rest of Act 2. Let's
take a look at them.
So taking a look at week 6 we can see that
the challenges will be get 45 head shots,
purchase 200 items, and use your ultimate
40 times. Doing all of these challenges will
grant you 44 thousand 550 xp. Moving onto
Week 7 the challenges get a bit easier and
they are Deal 25000 Damage, Play 150 rounds,
and lastly use 200 abilities. All of these
challenges will give you 48,600 xp.
Just a heads up the next week's challenges
will be pretty similar to week 6 as you need
to get 45 headshots again while also killing
125 enemies and playing 10 games. For this
week if your able to just focus up and aim
for the head you should be able to complete
all of the challenges during the 10 games
that you play. If you complete all of these
challenges you will get 56,700 xp. Now for
week 9 we get a bit of a mix up with challenges
of defuse/plant the spike 40 times, use 200
abilities, and use your ultimate 40 times.
Sadly these challenges won't be able to be
completed as fast as the previous week's but
you will get a decent xp reward of 56,700
xp which is the same amount as in week 8.
So this leaves us with only 1 week left and
for the final weekly challenges we have deal
25,000 damage, play 10 games, and use 200
of your abilities. In total these challenges
will grant you 56,700 xp as well. So take
all this information as you will and plan
accordingly if you want to level up that battle
pass as fast as possible.
Now for our final leak in this news roundup
we have an audio file that might be a hint
towards the next Valorant agent coming with
Act 3
So inside the test audio for designers game
file folder this string of code was found.
It reads: Play Dogbot Dog Ball Land. So I
don't really know what this is hinting towards,
but our next agent might have a pet dog that
comes into battle with them. This is a very
far fetched idea but by the sound of the audio
file it seems as though it could be a possibility.
Well that's all the new leaks that we have
for right now, but we are less than a month
away from the next Valorant Act update so
be prepared to hear more info on the next
agent coming very soon.
So to finish out this Valorant news roundup
we are going to take a few minutes to talk
about some of the esports news that have surfaced
in the past week.
We all know that every esport organization
is competting to be the best of the best so
teams are consitantly switching out players
to find the best fit. Well one of the teams
that was very dominate back in the Beta was
T1. We touched on T1 in our last weekly news
video as Skadoodle removed himself from the
Pop Flash T1 roster. He did this so that he
was able to take a bit more time to learn
more agents in Valorant. In the end T1 performed
very badly and tied for last place after losing
to immortals and Envy.
Many fans weren't too happy about this and
on September 3rd T1 put out this tweet informing
fans that Food and Crashies were both leaving
the team. There wasn't any more information,
but now there are 2 very strong valorant players
on the free agents list. Just keep this in
mind while we switch topics and talk about
100 Thieves.
So a few weeks ago 100 Thieves dropped the
majority of their roster, leaving only Hiko,
their captain. The goal was to build a powerful
team that Hiko could play with and win championships.
This is why they went ahead and signed Nitro,
a very strong ex-CS pro. I know this is all
old news but on September 4th 100 Thieves
announce their 3rd signee, Steel. Let's take
a quick look at this clip of Hiko's reaction
to 
the announcement.
So it sounds like 100 thieves has a very solid
core 3, but just think for one second what
would happen if they went ahead and signed
Food And Crashies. That team sounds so overpowered,
but who know I guess for now we will just
have to wait and see who fills up those last
2 spots for 100 thieves.
And as easy as it sounds to just sign 2 players,
it really isn't because new advancements are
happening surrounding CsGo Players switching
to Valorant. Here's a tweet by Jake Lucky
explaining what exactly is going on.
I can confirm apparently several top Valorant
pros will be revealed in ongoing CSGO investigations
for match fixing.
The debate right now being should their punishments
carry over from CSGO to their new game Valorant.
So what do you think about this? Should these
players still get punished even if they don't
play CS any more? Be sure to let us know your
thoughts in the comments of this video.
Now our final topic that we need to talk about
for this video is Agent pick rates in the
most recent tournament, The Pop Flash Valorant
Ignition Series Tournament.
Let's take a look at the pick percentages
for all of the agents and then we will talk
about a few interesting statistics and what
they might mean.
So one thing you might have picked up on was
that Viper was not included in this list.
This was because she wasn't picked at all.
So this makes her the least picked agent of
the tournament and that's not too good considering
the devs tried fixing this with the patch
prior to patch 1.07. However there is still
hope as Viper received another buff in the
most recent update so we will need to wait
and see how the next tournament plays out
and if she gets picked more than in this one
which won't be that hard.
Another agent that we need to watch is Breach,
because just like Viper he received a buff
in Patch 1.07 and in it he got 3 flashes instead
of 2. I have already seen more players running
breach in normal Valorant matches, but it
will be interesting to see how the pros react
to this change because a 6% pick rate is not
good at all.
On the other side of Pick rates we can see
that the pros still favor cypher as the best
valorant agent because once again he has the
highest pickrate coming in at 99%. This seems
to be happening every single tourney so I
wouldn't be surprised if a Cypher nerf isn't
talked about in the future. Sage used to have
the same situation and in this tournament
her pick rate dropped to 38%. And we need
to keep in mind that this tournament was played
before patch 1.07 where she was nerfed even
more. This might result in an even lower pick
rate in the next major tournament played.
So we have covered a good bit of statistics,
but one stat that many players don't think
about is how different agents compare to each
other. For example when we look at the pick
rates between smoke characters we can see
that Omen has the highest with 87%. When you
compare this to Brimstone with 14%, we are
able to tell that Omen is solidifying his
spot in team comps as the smoker for the team.
This is one of the many ways that the riot
devs look at the pick rates to determine agent
changes. So I hate to break the news to all
the Omen mains, but you might find Omen nerfs
coming in the next update. Of course in the
end it's the devs decision so we will just
have to wait and see what the next patch brings.
Well that's going to wrap it up for this week's
Valorant weekly news round up and
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Thanks so much for watching all the way through
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