Valorant Patch 12.06: Waylay Nerf, Viper Buff, and Major Bug Fixes Explained

Riot Games has released Valorant Patch Notes 12.06 which introduces changes to agent balance and brings new cosmetic features and backend performance enhancements and multiple bug fixes. The following section provides an exhaustive explanation of all modifications implemented in the system.

Agent Balance Changes in Valorant Patch 12.06

This Valorant patch brings its most important gameplay change to Waylay. Her Saturate ability has been changed from INSTANT to EQUIP, meaning she can no longer instantly hinder enemies while airborne or reactively on contact. Riot wants Duelists to use their abilities in dangerous situations instead of helping their teammates from safe locations.

Viper sees a backend improvement to her ultimate, Viper's Pit. The chemical cloud now spreads more consistently around map geometry, with notable fixes on Haven A Tower and Icebox A Pipes, also removing any potential failure-to-cast

scenarios.

Yoru receives new voice lines this patch.

Cosmetic and Quality-of-Life Updates

• Flex cosmetics now move at Melee movespeed instead of the previous 90%, which removes the hesitation players experienced about equipping them during gameplay. The rule applies to all current and future Flex items.
• The end-of-game screens for Victory Defeat and Draw have received new visual elements and sound effects.

The system has implemented multiple changes that affect spacing and sizing and text size throughout the scoreboard and timeline and performance tabs and leaderboards and career match history.

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All Agent and Store Bug Fixes in Valorant Patch 12.06

• Tejo's Guided Salvo could be cast three times which developers have now fixed.
• Miks' Harmonize VFX showed disappearing too soon because the targeting UI interfered with ally loadouts and M-pulse became stuck on map geometry.
• Veto's Crosscut icon disappeared from the minimap because players used the Enemy Highlight Color setting which turned their display to red.
• Clove's post-death Ruse requires players to cast the ability because they cannot unequip it.
• The store now works correctly after multiple problems were fixed which included Japanese text clipping issues and text alignment problems on different store pages and bundle images appearing distorted in the gifting center.

Performance and PC-Specific Updates

• Server-side push-model replication now exists as an optimization that does not affect client operations.
• The Premier system now has fixed tournament queue timer display problems, zone icon display errors and role management options that function properly during tournaments.
• Battlepass enables chapter navigation through paginated arrow buttons, which now function correctly after the scroll issues were fixed.

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