Valorant patch 13.10 confirms the leaked sentinel buffs

Riot have confirmed every sentinel change from Saturday’s leak and added replay bookmarks, an assist change that never made the 13.08 notes and a bigger Gauntlet: Glitched.

Riot published the Valorant patch 13.10 notes on Tuesday, and the sentinel changes match the leak we reported on Monday line for line. Cypher, Killjoy and Vyse get their key gadgets back sooner after they are destroyed, Cypher’s Spycam takes longer to reclaim, and Sage’s Healing Orb is easier to aim.

What the leak got right

Dataminer valohabercisi listed four agent changes, and all four are in Riot’s notes with the same numbers. What the leak did not show was the rest of the patch: Replay Bookmarking, a change to how assists are awarded and a large Gauntlet: Glitched update.

Riot say the 20s reclaim puts Cypher’s camera “in line with other Sentinels”. Sage’s targeting now matches Miks’ Harmonize, which Riot say should stop players healing the wrong teammate by accident. A separate bug fix means Sage can no longer heal allies with Healing Orb without line of sight to them.

Why Riot cut the cooldowns

Riot describe the sentinel change as small and targeted while they look at ability cooldowns and the state of sentinels more broadly. The aim is to give sentinels more room to place utility early and reset it mid-round, while still rewarding the team that breaks the setup.

The new 45s sits just below the 50s cooldown on initiator signature abilities, Riot point out, and the Cypher reclaim nerf means repositioning the camera mid-round now costs more. Riot add that what they learn from this patch will shape any bigger changes later.

Replay Bookmarking

Players can now bookmark moments during a match and jump straight to them when they watch the replay. Bookmarks are private and do not show up for anyone else viewing the same replay.

• PC: the keybind is blank by default. Set it under Settings, Controls, Interface, Replay Bookmarking.
• Console: a new button in the in-game Options Menu adds a bookmark.

Assists were changed in 13.08

Riot also admit they changed how assists work in patch 13.08 without putting it in the notes. Since then:

• Damage assists: dealing more than 10 damage to an enemy within 3 seconds of a teammate’s kill earns an assist. Dealing at least 50 damage to an enemy your teammates kill still counts, whenever it was done.
• Healing assists: only awarded when a player you healed gets a kill within 10 seconds after the heal effect ends.

Gauntlet: Glitched gets new abilities and party queue

Gauntlet: Glitched now lets groups of up to five queue together, with randomised pairings. The new upgrades are:

• Hush, Flow: Prone to Flight (extra charges) and Go the Distance (stronger pull)
• Hush, Displacement: Tug of War (extra charges) and Habit Forming (recharges with a decreasing cooldown)
• Cypher, Spycam: Dart Maniac (recharges Spycam and fires tracking darts more often) and Always Watching (double targeting range, darts take longer to remove)
• Veto, Interceptor: Cannon Fodder (recharges with a decreasing cooldown) and Long-term Assignment (longer active duration)
• Waylay, Refract: HODL (longer window to teleport back to the beacon) and Déjà vu (recharges with a decreasing cooldown)

Two old bugs return as glitches. Cypher’s Extreme Supervision makes the Spycam equip a Classic that upgrades to a Sheriff, and Skye’s Give a Dog a Gun makes Trailblazer equip a Classic that upgrades to a Frenzy, replacing Greatest Dane. Hush’s Suspension joins as a new ultimate: a steerable projectile that levitates players where it lands when reactivated.

Riot have also retuned a long list of existing upgrades. Among them, Packs a Punch now deals 75 armed damage at Level 2 (up from 60) and 145 at Level 3 (up from 125), while Overclocked Boom Bot drops from 150% to 125% movement speed at Level 2.

Bug fixes

The rest of the patch is fixes. Vyse’s Steel Garden no longer shows weapon-disabling effects on enemies who can still fire, and enemies can no longer escape it by crouching at the edge when there is a big height difference. Several fixes for Hush’s Suspension land too, along with ability clipping fixes on Breeze, Corrode, Split, Summit and Sunset.

Patch 13.10 follows patch 13.09, which brought Hush into the game.

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