Yesterday team Sentinels won the Valorant Champions Tour. Now, Valorant is making an update on buffing or nerfing some agents. Who does buff or nerf characters in a game and how do they do it? (This is a general question on all competitive online games)
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The developers are the ones who nerf of buff different characters by updating the game. It is technically possible to refuse the upgrade but then you are not allowed to connect to the servers so you can not play the game online. In the case of Valorant the developers are Riot Games. They have a team who among other is constantly monitoring how people play and tries to see if there are any characters who are overpowered or underpowered which would make the game very monotone and not that fun to play. They then decide how to change the characters to make them more balanced and both fun to play and fun to play against.
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