OpTic Gaming’s Jaccob “yay” Whiteaker is among the greatest Chamber gamers on the planet.
However with a second round of nerfs hitting nearly each skill within the agent’s equipment, questions abounded about whether or not the OpTic star could be choosing up a special agent at Valorant Champions 2022.
Because it seems, the reply could also be no. The 23-year-old appeared unfazed by the nerfs, saying in a pre-event press convention that the changes didn’t actually change how he performed.
The Chamber nerfs lack important affect, says yay
“The nerf undoubtedly did just a few issues, however for probably the most half in my expertise it hasn’t actually modified how I play,” he stated.
“I feel you get rather less constant worth out of it as a result of [of the longer cooldown on his abilities] and also you can’t play all these different angles, however you’ll be able to nonetheless do quite a lot of the identical issues you’ll be able to already.”
Nevertheless, he stopped in need of confirming whether or not or not he could be sticking with the French sentinel, teasing that followers must wait to seek out out.
The nerf to Chamber diminished the radius of his Rendezvous teleporters, shrinking the realm through which Chamber basically can’t be traded, however his instantaneous escape stays in place. On the similar time, whereas the length of his sluggish area was diminished, Headhunter and Tour De Power stay simply as fast and deadly.
Yay performed nothing however Chamber at Masters Copenhagen, the place OpTic exited in a decent third place. Whereas he was once OpTic’s essential duelist, that position has now fallen to Victor “Victor” Wong on brokers like Raze and Neon.
Nevertheless, with the consistently evolving meta and the introduction of Pearl into the map pool at Champions, it’s fully doable that El Diablo could debut a special agent.
OpTic Gaming will play their first match in opposition to APAC Final Likelihood Qualifier champions BOOM Esports on September 1 at 10:00 p.m. GMT+8 | 7:00 a.m. PT | 2:00 p.m. GMT. The match shall be broadcast reside on the official Valorant Twitch and YouTube channels.
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