Ryan Cousart
@rycoux
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🇵🇭 Live Balance Designer on @PlayVALORANT, puppr luvr, ramen destroyer, Yoru Daddy, KAY/O Papi, Neon Ninong, Gekko Grandpa
Los Angeles, CA
Joined November 2011
"Wingman’s (Q) Plant and Defuse targeting has been improved in order to target higher locations.". This will not only help with targeting above you, it should also be alot more forgiving when targeting a site for a Wingman plant 🥳
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I know these look a bit weird but are definitely intended by the new design. These are the kinds of tradeoffs we work through on the balance side. We took the bet because we liked the reliability of the zone for the base case but if this becomes too egregious we will find a fix.
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Looks like we missed a patch note for Yoru, apologize for not including it:. Time it takes to unequip out of Dimensional Drift has been decreased from 1.0 >>> 0.6. This change should help Yoru feel slightly more combat ready when leaving Dimensional Drift.
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If you Chamber mains end up missing teleporting from A to B on Bind, may I interest you to a Yoru perhaps.
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I just wanna do a quick shoutout to everyone sending bugs and weird things they are already seeing with Gekko. We're tracking a ton of fixes and quality improvements for Gekko that we will ship with 6.05. Thank you again for collaborating with us to make Gekko even better🥰.
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I broke down after that showmatch cast, overwhelmed with all the love in the crowd. Gekko was a massive effort from the team, one of the biggest efforts I think we’ve seen for an agent. Thank you for letting me rep the squad today and we hope you love him as much as we do 🥰
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Have been so excited to share this with you all! I am so grateful to have had an opportunity to be part of creating our first Filipino agent, as a Filipino designer. Can’t wait for you all to see more :) Welcome Neon!.
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After seeing some Viper mains dropping her after a few nerfs, I have so much love for the Yoru mains that stayed strong throughout the last year. Appreciate you all 🥺.
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Under no circumstance should a Rioter ever use their access to grant skins directly to another persons account. I'm all about gifting and love to be quite generous but this shit is just power abuse :/.
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Made a boo-boo typing up the patch notes, here's some clarification for the following line: "Time it takes for teleport beacon has decreased 1.5 >>> 0.5 seconds". It should say Time it takes for teleport beacon to re-stealth has decreased 1.5 >>> 0.5 seconds.
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Got an alert congratulating me for being at Riot for 10 years. Can I get a sheesh?.
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tl;dr on Sage:.Heal: Less battle, still Sage.Slow: A bit smaller, hard to unintentionally cover multiple chokes.Wall: Less reactive use cases, less offensive use cases. Read More:.
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I got absolutely carried by this man. Thank you @EsportsDoug and thank you for letting me chill for the end with you @tarik.
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Tejo was a tough cookie to balance but I think we've landed somewhere that will feel really oppressive early but will test both ally and enemy usage of his utility. Like a lot of our other agents, I can't wait to see how players will evolve from both sides towards mastery of Tejo.
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This was one we wanted to ship with but unfortunately had some complications with. Our best engineers are on it! 🫡.
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The story telling early on to support an on beat, rhythmic, 4 on the floor edit. Must be the most creative thing I’ve seen yet.
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Vanille and I have been DMing each other since she did her first records. Freaking out about every little thing hahaha Not only did she voice Neon, she helped with making her lines so authentic and even helped write a few. Thanks for bringing her to life @vanillevela!.
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Making changes in favor of gameplay clarity can be a tough balancing act as it can have negative perception for players that have invested in mastery in some obscure yet critical elements of games such as smoke timers or jungle timers.
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After hearing all the debate, I just wanted to set the record straight with callouts on Bind. I am using years of experience and super precise data to share what these callouts really are on Bind.
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Tied the bow on my last agent for VALORANT and I can’t wait for yall to see if I cooked or if I’m cooked 😭 I’ve moved over to work with my favorite people @penguinVALORANT @TiffyMunchsnax on live stuff, though, and it’s been fun 😈 What agents do you want to see us cook on?.
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We did the Sova dart just so y’all would forget about cam gun.
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Thanks for everyone asking, I’m safe but not okay. My heart is shattered seeing a lot of folks I’ve gotten to know, talented people, getting hit. Taking a bit to process and I don’t have many other words at the moment.
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On my flight and the excitement just hit me like a truck. I’m so pumped to meet you all in Manila. Stop by the Riot booth at #CONQuest2023 to say hello!
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It’s always can I have a Riot gun buddy never can you be my Riot buddy 🥺.
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Would love to work with a Filipino artist for some Neon twitch emotes and slack emojis for work. Anyone have any leads? Much appreciated!.
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Apologized for the Sage nerfs a while ago but promised we’d maybe look into KJ maybe idk maybe Chamber first. #VALORANTChampions
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The last few weeks of an agent's development are the most mentally taxing weeks of the whole process. Today, I am so grateful for all my coworkers gassing my depressed ass up. I love this lil VAL squad 🥰.
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Opened DMs to see if I could get more interactions with players or to help answer any questions but have also been flooded by gun buddy requests like other Rioters. Closing DMs but will still be responding to folks in mentions. No gun buddy requests, sorry! Find me in game :].
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I've been having fun with y'all on this but it's apparent that the sentiment comes mainly from the lack of love the sentinels role has been receiving especially with the pronounced strength of current Chamber. We are having active convos on sentinels, just need a bit of time :D.
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We've been having such a blast with this new Yoru internally and I can't wait to share everything our team has been working on :) Thanks for your patience, my Yoru homiez.
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Another amazing keyart for our next episode. Can’t wait to share more in the next few weeks :).
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This was a fun one :D Thank you everyone for bearing with my exstatic flurry of Neon excitement
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Shower thought I had that I asked my cousins and want to ask wider. In Tagalog, is tae a word because it’s eat backwards? Like eat is food going in so tae is…backwards?.
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Any Yoru bugs you want to see fixed for the update? . and no, his win rate is not a bug but we will try to fix it anyways.
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We made it to #CONQuest2023! I’m just roaming around with some other folks from Riot so pls come say hi
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Here's part 2 of the Yoru Rework, let me know what you guys think of this change!. (we're investigating this now, sorry about the bug 🤡).
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Here's me and my handsome prom date at the URFitational #URF2015 #URFitational @LoLDyrus
http://t.co/GWoj10zAKf.
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Shared the @OfficialBoaster stream today at work and I think I may have killed productivity for the day IM SO SORRY @RiotSuperCakes @RiotZiegler.
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@soulcas_ @PlayVALORANT @RiotNu It's a tough bug :( We've been triaging it for some time, now and the fix is complicated. We haven't forgotten, we promise.
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Not the best week to fracture an arm and some ribs but we keep ggoooiinnnn
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Though we don't want Yoru being able to completely assassinate enemies without there being some counter-play, coming out of Dimensional Drift has been a bit of a death trap previously. Hopefully, Yoru can start to punish enemies that do not respect his presence.
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Happy belated #APAHM!. I've been at Riot for almost 10 years, starting in Player Support, then QA for teams across the organization, but recently moved into my dream job in my dream genre, designing Agents on VALORANT. Happy to be representing the Philippines at Riot Games :D
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Was honored with the opportunity to ship a mind-fuckery kind of Agent as my first one in @PlayVALORANT and the Izzet player in me is screaming with joy.
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Super stoked on the Patch's reception, especially the Yoru stuff. We're workin around the clock to get him back in action ASAP! Lots of liddo buggies to squash.
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Sometimes it’s good to zoom out of this hell of a year and just look at how much you’ve grown. You, yes you. You’ve endured hell and we’re almost back(maybe…soon…) Pat yourself on the back you beautiful thing. Eat a pizza, you deserve a whole pizza. With ranch. And a Diet Coke.
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For one of our more simplistic kits, this one was quite a journey. Over thrilled for how this all came out and am grateful to have been part of this collaboration. Video team, you guys killed it on this one fr fr.
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My personal take on Jett dash going only in the direction you are facing: it does not solve the core of the problem being presented and introduces input complexity, gutting the input satisfaction of one of our funnest agents.
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I always hoped Sinigang would be Neon’s favorite food so I made some after inting with her in ranked this week 🥲
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Seeing a bit of confusion around the Yoru changes so I built a highly technical graph to help us visualize the changes of when you are invulnerable for the 5.01 Dimensional Drift changes
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Watching the team execute this crazy vision during dev was one of my favorite development cycles at Riot, hands down.
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We just tied the bow on the first patch of the year and we can't wait to play it on Live with y'all in the new year.
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Looks like the article had a liddo bug in it for one of the videos. Gatecrash will have 2 charges on the Yoru rework. Sharp eye @ValorantRed.
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This Neon cosplay was done so well 🥹 Artists put lots of time into the details of how our Agents look and to see how it translates into the cosplay is cool to see. Obrigado @leteubank!
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Shoutout to @RiotAugust for being the driver behind Neon's design! Co-developing this agent has been a journey and we've learned so much on the design side.
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I am so excited to announce that I’ve accepted a role on League of Legends to work and learn from some of the greats! Can’t wait to cook stuff up on LoL 😎
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My favorite moment at champs was when my Mom screamed because @jawgemo ran out of rubble through a Viper wall with his knife out. She said her blood pressure raised because he didn’t have his gun out. She has better game sense than me after watching VAL for one day.
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I get that we’re hurt, I’m hurt. We will say things that come from our heart and I get that. Please stop shitting on people’s dreams, likely dreams you had as a child. Let people dream and continue to want to make games. Stop the narrative that people shouldn’t work in games.
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The Jett changes are finally here! How y’all feelin about it 🤔.
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The Yoru changes in this patch are just quality of life changes, if y’all thought this was the juice. it ain’t it :).
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Don't get used to that Neon mid air cheese🤣we wouldn't keep it, right?. right?. 😅 (We won't).
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@Keeoh Though it counters the current meta placements of KJ ult on Ascent, I am confident there will be new spots that will prove to be just as powerful. Players like you baffle us constantly with the new ways you master abilities and I am excited to see how you all adapt.
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This was a big highlight of my year, being able to meet so many passionate League and VAL players. Thanks for entertaining my broken Tagalog 😅 hope to see you all again some day.
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Clove has to be one of my favorite, visually, on the roster and one that felt like the team had lots of fun working on. Can’t wait for them to hit the servers so I can run it down on a controller 😂.
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