Valorant Patch 6.06 Nerfs Gekko’s Wingman and Mosh Pit

Just a few week ago, we were introduced to Valorant’s newest agent, Gekko. However, that hasn’t stopped Riot Games from making changes to him as the community has had quite the mixed reviews regarding his abilities. Well, with the game’s most recent Patch 6.06, the all-new initiator has received a couple of nerfs, alongside a few other changes, noticeably to the game’s most recent map, Lotus.

Before the patch, the main reason why Gekko was considered to be quite overpowered was due to his Wingman ability that allowed him to both, defuse and plant the bomb. Well, that ability has now been nerfed. According to the patch notes, Wingman will now always die if he is the last alive, which is quite the major change for the new agent.

Furthermore, Gekko’s Most Pit ability has also been nerfed. Previously the ability dealt 2.5x damage to objects in the game which was significant enough to destroy most if not all of the objects in the game. However, now, it’s been reduced to 1x damage.

Valorant Patch 6.06 Patch Notes

To learn more about the changes introduced to the game with patch 6.06, check out the complete patch notes down below:

Agent Updates

Gekko

• Mosh Pit (C)

  • Mosh Pit’s damage to objects has been performing inconsistently with relative abilities such as KAY/O’s FRAG/ment (C) and Breach’s Aftershock (C).

    • Damage to objects has reduced 2.5x >>> 1x

• Wingman (Q)

  • Wingman will now always die if he is last alive.

Map Updates

Lotus

• Updated the destruction VFX for the destructible door located between A Link to A Main in order to make it easier to see through as it falls away.

Gameplay Systems Updates

• Added the ability to hide Agent outlines and fresnel (the color outline on Agents)

  • Go to Settings >> General >> Under “Other”, there is an option to toggle “Hide Outlines and Fresnel”.

Bug Fixes

Agents

• Wingman can no longer concuss intangible players.

Gameplay Systems

• Fixed a bug where loading into a match resulted in an incorrect view of under the map.

Social

• Fixed a bug preventing you from sending a whisper starting with a Circumflex Accent

• Fixed a bug causing ping icons to be displayed even when someone was muted. Muting someone will now properly suppress ping icons.

• Fixed a bug where the voice chat UI was obscured when your Agent was blinded. You can now see, even when your Agent can’t.

• Fixed a bug where the join party button would still be active even though the party invite was no longer valid.

• Fixed a bug where when searching your friends list, the number of people a friend is in a party with would not display correctly.

• Fixed a bug where scrolling the social panel would sometimes scroll other UI elements like the Agent carousel.

• Fixed a bug where the friends list was obscured when auto-reject friend requests was enabled.

That is it for now but be sure to check back later to learn more about Valorant. Until then, let us know what you think about the Valorant Patch 6.06 and the changes it has made to Gekko.