Since version 7.09, Cypher has become a controversial agent and an obsession for many players when playing ranked matches in VALORANT.
In VALORANT, the meta is never stable, it will always change through Riot Games' updates. However, sometimes these changes become too limited and cause some characters to become hated for being too flawed. We can mention version 7.09 with the correction to Cypher's Tech Trap and making him the number 1 agent in site defense and almost invulnerable.
On Reddit, a player caused a big discussion about Cypher being overpowered in the current patch as he is useful in most maps. They affirm that Cypher is the best Guardian agent currently with the benefits he brings and compares it to two other agents such as Chamber and Sage. “I think they nerfed Chamber and Sage more than necessary,” the author of the article hopes that other Guardian agents can be strengthened to reduce Cypher's superiority.
Very quickly, the article received a lot of agreement from players about Riot Games over-buffing Cypher. In fact, recent Ranked matches in VALORANT always come with having to choose an agent. Can break traps in low mode. Regardless of any map or formation, they must choose agents like Raze, Sova or KAY/O to be able to neutralize Tech Traps if the enemy team has Cypher.
But there are also some other elements who believe that this agent does not deserve to be nerfed. According to them, breaking his Tech Trap was easy. “This agent is not like Killjoy – she can place her skills in any location to get information and can even use nanos to attack. Even Cypher's Ultimate is useless in most cases.” This is really reasonable if compared to Killjoy, this girl has many more advantages and creativity in creating her bots. Meanwhile, Tech Traps are somewhat more predictable and can be destroyed quickly.
It cannot be denied that Cypher is attracting a lot of attention in the current meta in Ranked matches. However, he still has critical weaknesses and many hard counters. Therefore, perhaps nerfing this agent is not a feasible option. In return, Riot can completely consider increasing the power of agents with other roles such as Sage, Chamber or even Deadlock.