Should You Play Cypher After The Nerf? (Patch 9.10)

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In this video I give my thoughts on the new valorant Cypher nerf in patch 9.10
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[orionxsirius]

Of course Cypher's ult is too powerful and neon's ult is perfectly fine

[villagernpc]

0.5 seconds is a lot. Specially in Val where most interactions takes frames to go sideways

[Cluckyz]

I have 1000+ matches and 500+ hours on this agent, my opinion he is honestly still the same except now instead of specific agents which can counter cypher like sova and raze, just other agents with non damaging utility to an extend can counter ur setups. A good cypher always have variations with his setups, so just make sure to always have variations withs ur setups every round.

Riot just doesn't wants you to get free kills with unbreakable trips without getting countered. So if you keep using default setups, riot is allowing enemies to counter it without excess usage of utility.

[dbg_darker]

one of my biggest issues is the ult was increased and sages was buffed both being 7 so bringing a person back to life is the same as revealing at most 4 or less people universally

[Trustyo]

If you’re a cypher main. You learn to adapt so quickly through the game. This ‘nerf’ ain’t nothing

[cadewatkin]

In lower elo, this nerf doesn't do a whole ton, because people are slow to shoot your trips and as while it does wind up to the full reveal, you can still see them through the smoke. It def makes unbreakable trips worse, but that's honestly fair, unbreakable trips are an unfortunate result of the current state of cypher which are really annoying to deal with.

[ilikemoney]

1:27 So are we gonna pretend this never happened?

Nice video

[Acee]

When I always start mailing a new agent they always get nerfed next patch😢

[rootkorplays]

i kind of understand the changes as cypher main
we need to be ery specific in our setups and predictions
Non cypher players may find it difficult
i have like almost 1500 hours on cypher from Episode 1 till today
its not bad as chamber meta though

[zainmian]

After playing a little since the nerf,
I will say that some people will still escape my trips but still give me a chance to shoot the in the general direction and maybe get a pick, so the trip nerf, while makes it less reliable, having trips still recharge and reactivate after it being used is still very powerful, so I think trips are sort of balanced now and give people some chance to escape, the bad thing is that people will not be stunned in the 0.5 seconds so if they expect the trip or the trip is placed at a height near where their crosshair may be, then they have a good chance of escaping, but I think that is fair.

But the That is terrible. Cypher's Ult, while decent and can help you and your team to understand the opposite teams plan if you took site or retaking, it isn't very powerful, we have Neons ult which is actually impactful by giving her the ability of mowing down people fast and making her able to give her more kills, potentially making or breaking ng that round, which Cypher's Ult can be very helpful in securing the round, just from my experiences, not as helpful as Neons, and is not being nerfed, I do feel unfair.

Overall, I think he is above average, he is not bad, he is good, he can still hold a site, but just not as well with the trip nerf.

Supposedly Neon will be nerfed next update or something if I remember, and if the Ult is increased, I guess I can't argue with Cypher's Ult too much, as long as that happens

[SirPhil]

"now he is a actuall sentinal holding space" - meanwhile the enemy run throu the trip without punishment destroying your trap and flicking you to back to bronze. Cypher sucks after that nerf sadly, hope they revert the change and start nerfing the "god wire" spots on maps.

[NICK-a]

Fuck did my boy cypher do? He's the most versatile/balanced agent as of today, why'd they nerf him? Why not buff the other agents, or buff cypher's counters or perhaps add more counter abilities for cypher, there's no need to nerf cypher. I hate riot. Or...hear me out .... Buff the other sents?? Idk riot, just an idea

[JaeGroove]

Cypher still gonna do his thing luckily for me I’ve been playing hella Vyse (also other Sents) so I at least have different agents to play if things get rough

[AmiiDmir]

The 0.5 charge is a bummer, but on the other hand, stuns will affect duelist movement. As long as Neon players are unhappy in this patch, I'm fine.

[nateralt]

I mean I’ve already adopted the trips to be used as info gathering setups instead of killing. Cause I know my aim is way superior to the enemies.

[TheFlapJax]

The .5 delay just feels toooo long, in game it feels like a full 1-2 seconds before enemies are seen on my screen with the fade in effect :/
For the first time in my time playing Val, Cypher doesn't feel fun to play :((

[Owenwowson]

I was just about to decide to main cypher after coming back to the game. After discovering this nerf I immediately never want to play the agent ever again.

[sergie]

I played Chamber, Viper and Cypher... 😭 RIP

[shadowmekar]

I think it really elevates skill ceiling for cypher now, scrubs wont be able to pick him up and play, which is what most low ranks do anyway so yeah people with good setups and playstyle won't be affected too much

[DabngkTF]

Hopefully this isn’t as bad as expected for cypher players