Valorant 3.00 Patch Notes: Everything You Need to Know

Valorant 3.00 Patch Notes were released June 22 featuring updates to every Agent and weapon in the game, changes to the competitive tuning, moving accuracy and a brand new Agent called KAY/0.

Without further ado, here's every change in the anticipated Valorant Epsiode 3.

Valorant 3.00 Patch Notes: Everything You Need to Know

Agent Updates

• Signature abilities now only provide a minimum of one charge per round instead of
  accumulating a charge every round.
• For example, if you have a two charge signature ability and you end the round
  with one charge remaining, you will not gain an additional charge
• Charges gained from cooldowns are now always temporary
• Visibility returns faster during the fadeout period of all flashes

Astra

Nova Pulse (Q)

• Cooldown time increased 12 >>> 25

Gravity Well (C)

• Cooldown time increased 12 >>> 25

Stars / Astral Form (X)

• Stars are now inactive when placed during the buy phase
• On Attack, Astra can now see the Spike’s location in Astral form
• Recall cooldown increased 8 >>> 15
• Granted signature charges decreased 2 >>> 1
• Star cost decreased 200 >>>150

Breach

Flashpoint (Q)

• Total charges reduced 3 >>> 2
• Cost increased 200 >>> 250
• Projectile speed decreased 2500 >>>2000

Fault Line (E)

• Full charge time decreased 1.5 >>> 1 second
• Width increased 600 >>> 750
• Telegraph windup time decreased 1.3 >>> 1
• Concussion duration increased 3 >>> 3.5
• Unequip time after firing decreased 1 >>> .7
• Cooldown time increased 35 >>> 40

After Shock (C)

• Now explodes 3 times with each blast dealing 60 damage with no fall off, blasts are .6 seconds apart
• Explosion radius increased 260 >>> 300
• Unequip time after firing decreased 1.1 >>> .9 seconds
• Cost increased 100 >>> 200

Rolling Thunder (X)

• Width of all explosions increased to 2300, which was the previous width of the final explosion

Brimstone

• Cost increased 200 >>> 250

Cypher

Neural Theft (X)

• Ultimate points required decreased 7 >>> 6

Jett

Updraft (Q)

• Cost increased 100 >>> 150

Tailwind (E)

• No longer breaks Cypher’s Trapwire

Cloudburst (C)

• Cost increased 100 >>> 200

Bladestorm (X)

• Ultimate points required increased 6 >>> 7

Killjoy

Alarmbot (Q)

• Cooldown after pickup increased 7 >>> 20

Turret (E)

• Cooldown after pickup increased 10 >>> 20

Omen

Paranoia (Q)

• Cost decreased 400 >>> 300

Dark Cover (E)

• Granted signature charges reduced 2 >>> 1
• Omen now must buy his second smoke for 100
• Cooldown time increased 35 >>> 40

Shrouded Step (C)

• Cost increased 100 >>> 150

Phoenix

Curveball (Q)

• Cost increased 200 >>> 250

Raze

Model Update

• Model has been updated with a polish pass

Boombot (C)

• Cost increased 200 >>> 400

Showstopper (X)

• Ultimate points required increased 7 >>> 8

Reyna

Leer (C)

• Cost increased 200 >>> 250

Sage

Slow Orb (Q)

• Cost increased 100 >>> 200

Barrier Orb (C)

• Cost increased 300 >>> 400

Resurrection (X)

• Ultimate points required increased 7 >>> 8

Skye

Trailblazer (Q)

• Vision radius increased 1750 >>> 2250
• Max concussion duration increased 3 >>> 4
• Cost increased 200 >>> 250

Guiding Light (E)

• Charges reduced 3 >>> 2
• Charges are now replenished on a 40-second cooldown
• Skye no longer needs to re-equip to trigger her flash
• Guiding Light’s projectile now goes around corners tighter when free flying and is more responsive to guiding
• Audio attenuation when cast reduced 3,250 >>> 1,250
• Cost of charges increased 100 >>> 250

Sova

Shock Dart (Q)

• Cost increased 100 >>> 150

Recon Bolt (E)

• Cooldown time increased 35 >>> 40

Owl Drone (C)

• Cost increased 300 >>> 400

Hunter's Fury (X)

• Ultimate points required increased 7 >>> 8

Viper

Snakebite (C)

• Duration reduced 8 >>> 6.5
• Outer edges of Viper’s acid patch form faster to ensure it is lethal if an enemy sits in the entire duration
• Cost increased 100 >>> 200

Yoru

Blindside (Q)

• Cost increased 200 >>> 250

Gatecrash (E)

• Cooldown time increased 35 >>> 40

Weapon Updates

All Weapons

• Bullet tagging changed from 75% slow >>> 72.5% slow
• Weapon Deadzones changed from 30% >>> 27.5%

All Rifles

• Walking inaccuracy changed from 1.3 >>> 2.0
• Running unchanged at 5.0

All Heavies

• Walking Inaccuracy changed from .5 >>> 2.4
• Running unchanged at 6.0

All SMGs

• Walking inaccuracy changed from .3 >>> 1.0
• Running inaccuracy changed from 2.0 >>> 2.5

Classic

• Walking inaccuracy changed from .25 >>> .84
• Running inaccuracy changed from 1.5 >>> 2.1

Frenzy

• Price decreased 500 >>> 450
• Walking inaccuracy changed from .25 >>> .8
• Running inaccuracy changed from 1.0 >>> 2.0

Ghost

• Walking inaccuracy changed from .25 >>> .92
• Running Inaccuracy changed from 1.85 >>> 2.3

Sheriff

• Walking inaccuracy changed from .25 >>> 1.2
• Running inaccuracy changed from 2.0 >>> 3.0

Judge

• Price increased 1600 >>> 1850
• Damage falloff at 10m changed from 13 per pellet >>> 10 per pellet
• Damage falloff at 15m changed from 10 per pellet >>> 7 per pellet

Bulldog

• Hip-fire (full auto mode) firing rate increased from 9.15 RPS >>> 9.5 RPS
• Price decreased 2100 >>> 2050

Shorty

• Price decreased 200 >>> 150

Stinger

• Price decreased 1100 >>> 950

Bucky

• Price decreased 900 >>> 850

Marshal

• Price decreased 1000 >>> 950

Ares

• Price decreased 1600 >>> 1550

Operator

• Price decreased from 5000 >>> 4700

Competitive Updates

• Reduced the possibility of feeling “hard stuck” on older accounts. If your skill improves,
  your rank should properly reflect that, regardless of account age.
• Matchmaking accuracy will improve across all ranks, which should lead to a smoother
  ranked climb and reduce how hard you may swing up and down in rank
• While winning games is still the most important factor, individual performance will also
  be accounted for to improve matchmaking at Immortal+
• Close games will have a smaller effect on rank rating gains and losses
• Adjusted our Rank Rating curves, so climbing (or falling) should feel less volatile
• Updated Rank distribution
• Placements raised to Diamond 1

Performance Updates

• Improved clipping plane calculations using multithreading
• Improved thread utilization across multiple cores for distributed tasks
• Optimized camera calculations
• Optimized ambient audio for each map
• General optimizations for all ability animations

Social Updates

• Hover Cards have been added to the social panel
• You can now invite to party with Riot ID in custom games

Gameplay Technology

Killfeed

• Your kills will get an additional highlighted border to make them stand out
• Kill assists will also be shown to the left of the killfeed entries
• The killfeed will also display a highlighted border for your assist portrait
• The killfeed will display certain ultimate abilities when players on either team are killed in a second-life state or revived
• Added multi-colored killfeeds in cases where kills would result in the same team color
  appearing side by side

Round Rollback Feature for Tournament Mode Custom Games

• This feature allows you to set the game back to the start of a previous round and re-play the game starting from there
• To enable the feature, go to “Options” while setting up a Custom Game and toggle “On” Tournament Mode
• During the match, the Round Rollback feature can be found in the “Cheats” section of the Menu.
• Added the ability to toggle on and off the outer crosshair lines
• Adjusted assist timings and thresholds for utility-based assists to make them more consistent across different Agent abilities.

Progression Updates

• Year One Event Pass—this is similar to a Battle Pass but it's completely free
• Added a Squad Boost: You will get extra XP when you play in a premade group
• We're also permanently adding Account Leveling

Bugs

Agents

• Characters blocked by Sage’s Barrier Orb when resurrected now break the wall to ensure they don’t get pushed inside map geo
• Fixed Skye’s Seekers showing up on the minimap even when they aren’t visible to an enemy
• Fixed Viper’s ultimate not showing as active on the team UI when Viper’s Pit is up
• Fixed bug where Cypher’s Spy Camera could be placed inside the map on mid Icebox
• Fixed a bug where Reyna’s Dismiss ability could not be rebought if the Buy Menu is closed and reopened during the same Buy Phase
• Fixed a bug where cancelling Sova’s Hunter’s Fury while charging the shot allows player to skip unequip animation by equipping a weapon, ability, or Spike
• Fixed a bug where picking up Cypher’s TrapWires/Cages and Killjoy’s Nano Swarms during the Buy phase would prevent you from purchasing a second charge

Competitive

• Fixed a bug that was causing a delay in recent Competitive game’s Ranked Rating updates in Match History
• Fixed a Career screen visual bug that would show up for those who dropped out of Immortal
• Fixed a bug that caused a friend’s career to infinitely load

Social

• Fixed a bug where friends' names were merging together in the social panel when interacting with them, jumbling them together at times.

Content Support

• Fixed an issue causing a hitch when viewing skins in the Collection

Gameplay Technology

• Fixed a bug where the inner crosshair toggle feature wasn't working
• Fixed a bug where AOE kills were not rewarding the appropriate character if the enemy was in a debuffed state
• Fixed a bug where the Spike icon pulse and beeping sound were not in sync
• Fixed a bug where Ally defuse progress bar sometimes fails to appear
• Fixed a bug where Observer’s Killfeed has no team colors
• Reverted our fix for the “swirly arms” in the last patch, since it was causing significant animation snapping