{"id":42744,"date":"2026-05-13T14:56:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T13:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/valorant-patch-12-09-address-neons-pro-dominance-and-shotgun-balancing\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T14:56:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T13:56:20","slug":"valorant-patch-12-09-address-neons-pro-dominance-and-shotgun-balancing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/valorant-patch-12-09-address-neons-pro-dominance-and-shotgun-balancing\/","title":{"rendered":"VALORANT Patch 12.09 address Neon\u2019s pro dominance and Shotgun balancing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Neon has been a bit of a problem for VALORANT\u2018s balance for some time, and Riot acknowledged as much last week. It teased some changes coming to Neon to nerf its aggressiveness and favoring of the shogun, and now the balance patch has come. Naturally, the champ went on hiatus in regular games but stayed online for esports competitiveness reasons&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esports.net\/news\/valorant-patch-12-09-neon-shotgun\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neon has been a bit of a problem for VALORANT\u2018s balance for some time, and Riot acknowledged as much last week. It teased some changes coming to Neon to nerf its aggressiveness and favoring of the shogun, and now the balance patch has come. Naturally, the champ went on hiatus in regular games but stayed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42744"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}