Valorant 9.11 patch notes: Neon nerfs, Vyse buff, new Ping system, and more

The Valorant 9.11 patch notes are now out globally. In this minor patch, Riot Games has nerfed Neon and buffed Vyse, bringing more Agent balance to the game. There is now also a new Ping system in the shooter. Apart from that, multiple bug fixes have been introduced.

Read on to learn everything included in the Valorant 9.11 patch notes, 2024's last patch.

Full Valorant 9.11 patch notes: All changes coming on December 10, 2024

Highlights of Valorant patch released today (Image via Riot Games)

Below are the full Valorant 9.11 patch notes released on December 10, 2024:

Agent updates in Valorant 9.11 patch notes

All platforms

Neon

We’re reducing the power of Neon’s High Gear and Overdrive. These changes are intended to require Neon to play more intentionally as Neon’s abilities are highly reactive and impactful and should require more strategic use than they currently do.

High Gear

We believe Neon’s slide is correctly positioned as an aggressive combat tool, but making a call around when to cast should be more important than it is currently, and that she should pay more of a cost when she slides.
Additionally, we want to sharpen the slide as a close-quarters combat tool to reward Neon for sprinting up to her opponents rather than consistently beaming opponents at long ranges.
Slides 2 >>> 1
Accuracy during slide
Full accuracy >>> Crouch-walking accuracy

Overdrive

We want to increase counterplay for Overdrive—giving opponents a potential window to stall Neon out or disengage. The amount of average round impact with her ultimate also justifies an 8-point cost.
Duration of ultimate: 20s >>> 10s
Ultimate points 7 >>> 8

Vyse

Razorvine

We want to increase Razorvine’s ability to hold space as well as clean up some unclear gameplay situations where Razorvines that land on high objects could affect opponents with poor visual feedback.
Damage per tick of moving through Razorvine: 6 >>> 10
Vertical drop spawn height: 450 >>> 300
This means Razorvine will no longer affect players as far under it when spawning high up on objects/level geometry
Now slows enemy dashes similar to Sage’s Slowing Orb and concusses.

Arc Rose

Arc Rose is getting some minor quality-of-life updates that should make aggressing off its initial placement easier.
Equip speed after cast
Normal >>> Fast

Client updates in Valorant 9.11 patch notes

All platforms

You can now upgrade your weapon skins in 5 seconds instead of 5 hours (lol)
Added the ability to unlock multiple available skin levels in a single transaction.
Variants will require a separate unlock.

Gameplay systems updates in Valorant 9.11 patch notes

All platforms

Ping system

The in-game ping system was created with the simple goal of allowing players to communicate with one another without using their mic. Over the years, unintended use cases of the ping system have emerged that give players in-the-moment combat advantages that go beyond the intended use of the system.
With that in mind, we’re making two changes to the ping system.
Smokes will block your in-world pings from traveling through them and instead land on the smoke.
Pings made on your map will no longer appear in the world and only display on the minimap.
To help you differentiate these ping behaviors in game we’re introducing new ping visuals and new ping sound for pings made on the map.
We’ll introduce a cheat function for allowing map pings to show in-world during custom games to aid labbing and lineups, but this will come in a future patch.

Before Ping update

After Ping update

Modes updates in Valorant 9.11 patch notes

All platforms

Team Deathmatch

The Regen Shield has been added to Team Deathmatch in Stage 1. When using the Classic in Stage 1 you will now have the Regen Shield instead of Light Armor.>
Stage 1 Classic
Light Armor >>> Regen Shield

Social updates in Valorant 9.11 patch notes

PC only

Updated the color of Party chat messages from Team chat messages.
Updated the appearance of Party flags in the Social Panel.

Bug fixes in Valorant 9.11 patch notes

All platforms

Progression

Fixed a bug that incorrectly required 100 matches played to complete the Play A Match weekly mission.

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This was everything you needed to know about the Valorant patch notes released on December 10, 2024.