VALORANT tweaks Gekko in patch 6.05

Definitely, Gekko, the last agent to arrive at the shooter VALORANT, needed an adjustment or balance. His abilities are really good, both in attack and defense, since he can take advantage of them to make individual plays or support teammates in very aggressive combos.

At this time, as reported by the portal dak.gg, the agent is in position number nine of the characters with the highest ‘win rate’ or percentage of victories. He boasts a 50.3% winning percentage and is ahead of Phoenix and below Fade.

For this reason, Riot Games has decided to give it some adjustments and fix some bugs in patch 6.05. We share below the notes of the shooter update.

Patch Notes 6.05

GEKKO

• Area selection on planting and defuse with Gooey (Q) is now more forgiving
• Audio Improvements: Added audio variations for Pogo Brutal (C) explosions
  Made audio improvements for Vertigo (E)’s plasma blasts, which will help identify them when they fly towards you or an ally in the air.
• FX Improvements: Added FX when Gekko recovers an orb and when a globule recovery is complete
  Improved the graphics of enemy creature globules
  We improve the performance of agent selection

PERFORMANCE UPDATES

• Added “CPU to GPU Wait Time” metric to performance settings so gamers can tell when their computers are tied to graphics rendering

MISTAKES

GEKKO

• Fixed a bug where Nugget wouldn’t take damage from melee attacks
• Fixed a bug that caused Gekko’s friendly orbs to appear white outside of Replica Mode custom games
• Fixed various animation issues with all abilities
• Fixed Gekko’s ult UI sticking on screen if the round ended while in possession of Pummel
• Fixed a bug that prevented Carnalito from deactivating the Spike after using the command to swap teams in a custom game
• Fixed a bug that allowed Goofy to escape an exaggerated distance when attempting to plant the Spike while airborne
• Fixed a bug where Pogo Brutal’s damage could be evaded when crouching into the pit
• Fixed a bug where Gnat’s torso would not trigger Cypher’s Tripwire (C)
• Fixed a bug that would play the wrong animation when casting Goofy
• Fixed a bug that prevented Gekko from planting the Spike in Spike Rush if Gosh was unable to plant it
• Fixed Pogo Brutal’s English name displaying with “Mosh’s Pit” instead of “Mosh Pit”

GAMEPLAY SYSTEMS

• Fixed a bug in the reticle that would disable the import button if you have 10 or more reticle profiles saved
• The maximum number of profiles is still 15
• Fixed a bug with area of ​​damage over time abilities that allowed you to crouch to evade damage

PERFORMANCE

• Memory in use performance metric is now updated when total memory performance metric is disabled

SOCIAL ROLES

• Fixed a bug where players would spawn more than once in the friends list in cases of bad platform disconnection
• Fixed a bug where voice tooltips could display incorrectly when turning party or team voice chat on and off
• Fixed a bug that would occasionally cause the invite menu to flicker
• Fixed a bug where the number of online friends would not update after ending friendship with an online player
• Fixed a bug that would keep friend requests pending even when auto-rejecting friend requests was turned on. Pending friend requests will now be automatically declined when activating that option
• Fixed a bug in the notification system that sometimes displayed a blank space when confirming the sending of a friend request
• We will now send a message to players notifying them that they will also be banned from competitive play if they have communication blocks

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