The problem
VEX has a 94% pick rate in ranked and a 71% ban rate in Circuit. She is the fastest operator in the game, the hardest to pin down, and the reason several map layouts have a second route nobody intended.
The balance team's official position is that she is not a problem. She is a pressure valve.
The reasoning
Every tactical shooter needs a runner who can break a stalemate. VEX does that by making the map temporary. Her counters are cheap: sound, a second body, and a corridor with no thin cover.
The team is not nerfing her damage or her dash. They are nerfing the decoy's duration by four hundred milliseconds and calling it a day.
If you are losing to VEX, the answer is not a patch. It is a flashlight and a friend.
She is not unbeatable. She is just very good at making you believe she is.
What's next
A new Vanguard arrives in Season 05. The team says the goal is not to replace VEX, but to give crews a reason to stop banning her.
Until then, check your corners twice.
