8:55 As a viper main if you want to climb with Viper you have to play with a double smoke comp, because as solo controller she's not good at all anymore, her smokes dont last long enough to even plant the spike sometimes
Fade really depends on your team, unfortunately. At least in my experiences, low elo players are too afraid of dying and don't capitalize off of her aggressive kit.
initiator role entirely is hard to rank up with in low elo, but it's more specifically fade and breach. if you have zero comms, or as you said teammates afraid of dying, just avoid playing them entirely. hell I even throw my own body when my KD is low, and my duelists are STILL afraid to push in. edit: another thing for breach, in the case that your team does push, they somehow walk into your util.
Putting Breach that low is crazy. People can't dodge his flashes vast majority of times until you hit maybe high Asc. Breach is probably the best agent for climbing even if you don't have that good of an aim. He's super easy to play, every single one of his abilities is really good (especially with the recent overall stun buffs) and he is really effective on both offense and defense. I don't know wtf is happening in imm/radiant lobbies, but in low to mid-high elos, ratty Breaches that run away as soon as they see you and only peek you with flashes and stuns is a nightmare to play against.
Immo1 player here Breach is not self-sufficient enough because it can be difficult to play off your own util (besides the ult) the flash is very easily turnable in 90% of situations It is hard to get value out of teamplay due to the nature of competitive queue (esp low elo, no com etc./ stunning your own teammates) It is difficult to get rid of sentinel util (one of the main things you need from initiator) He's okay but inefficient to rank up - sova is definitely clear (for ranked) breaking trips/ post plant etc. but even then if your below diamond just lock duelist like raze jett or reyna and frag because mechanics over everything in these elo and these agents enable you to frag and open space for your team (raze/ jett esp is scaleable to higher elo) OR Clove she is sleeper pick psuedo duelist/ smoke so you dont have braindead controller
Breach is quite good when you go flank a site by yourself, or when you have good communication and not a brain dead team. If your team is horrible they will run into your flashes and stuns even though you’re flashing and stunning well. I have a friend that plays Breach, and assists me (Cypher) and another friend(Reyna) and he’s really good in assisting Reyna in getting kills.
As someone who's coming back after 2 years bro I was hella surprised by how badly they dug Astra into the ground, she was a menace in Immo-Radiant lobbies 2 years ago.
Fully agree, you can really push the limits of how deep your plays can go with the teleports and especially fakes with the clone and noise you can make. It also somewhat depends on your enemies, the better their gamesense, the higher the chance of you fooling them with the big brain plays since they're more likely to think ahead (or try to) which you'll exploit to surprise them. Imo, this is a perfect example of it, I'm a yoru main and I usually just play unrated, my comp rank is currently gold 1 (played a game yesterday and got a double rankup to g3 but I rarely play it so it doesn't matter) I was in a 1v2 on bind, killed someone near long, put my teleport there, and went through the portal, then faked going to B by shooting a bit and letting my clone walk up into CT under heaven (also delayed it a little bit so if there was a late rotate, the footsteps would be heard as they stop, which could be me shifting etc) I tp back to long but I delay it incase they're close enough to hear me, and planted the bomb. As I was planting, one of the two enemies came up from inside the site and killed me, like despite hearing the portal and shots in the OTHER SIDE OF THE MAP, they still decided to sit in the middle of the site, absolutely certain I could come back, and there's no chance they saw my teleport orb and thought they shouldn't break it and made a play off of it since they were far from long and they would've otherwise just camped it. TLDR: the lower the rank, the simpler your plays should be Yoru's big brain plays don't work that well in gold lobbies since gold players wouldn't have the same gamesense level, so a simpler and more straightforward playstyle is better. Immortal though, go as deep as you think your enemies can, don't overcomplicate the plays and don't second guess yourself, if you go three steps ahead; the third step will bring you back to square one and it probably won't work as well as it should've pretty big rant but profit
@@v7xgaming fr man i read ur whole comment i m s1 player people just like to camp tp instesd of breaking it i flash them then tp full flash still they just shoot blindly and get head the most frustrating thing is dying by tp camp i drop to bronze from silver 1 12 time and reach silver afte dropping to bronze 2 19 time i got worst tm8s and worst internet sometimes i got 8k ping :( and my yoru got instant lock many time and the bot flash they do bruh specting instant locker yoru feels like i m watching pastic 1 yoru doing big brain play in low elo is worst doing fake tp and peeking thinking they will be aiming the tp they heard but nah man they just ignore the tp sound 😑
@@Sh4dow.xe_ Damn man and especially the fact people are unreliable when you fake tp they don't look and when you tp there's always 3 people looking at you minimum lol Eitherway at lower elos we should focus less on yoru abilities and whatnot and just focus on the basics like aiming movement decision making etc and use the abilities to compliment that, like normal peeks with the flash, pushing behind clone, using it to clear areas, etc
@@AnmolShrestha-bt6ms im on the other side. I hate playing against Cypher because my teammates never know when to rotate, like they will keep trying to enter Split B and die because they didn't anticipate the Cypher trips and one-ways 😭
The less team dependant is your agent the better in soloq low ranks, i believe. Any duelist is S tier because of self-sustain and aggressiveness. Among sentinels, sage and deadlock again are good, because they are versatile and don't have to stick to the site like kj/cypher where you sometimes just miss your setup especially on flank watching. Clove and Omen hands down way better than any other controller because they can be both aggressive and lurk. Initiator is only gekko, because he is pretty good at rough pushing through, others like sova/fade/kayo are too intel dependant and it's not that important if your team doesn't communicate
lurking on clove is an interesting take, I think astra and omen are the best controllers in the game period. and deadlock and cypher are probably the best sentis, and as for intiators gekko and sova r on top and duelists is just neon atm.
I would swap Astra and Viper. Viper can't solo smoke anymore, and in comp, nobody else is gonna lock smokes. Astra has good smokes, and can choose 2 spaces to have an advantage taking (Pull+Stun). Taking space is a huge weak point for most controllers. She also has some post plant with pull.
Sage is my new solo instalock . With regen shield and her instant 50 health , you are running around with 225 hp off the rip . Really keeps me alive and allows me to take on mutiple fights ! .
I see why people trash on chamber a lot but I think he’s really underrated especially with his recent tp buff and headhunter buffs. For example if you just buy 4 headhunter shots and light shields on first round you’ll just dominate everyone
I'm a cypher main in Ascendent I and the nerfs are massive you need to change your whole play style on defence and that made me think he is in A-tier. After the cypher nerfs I started to play Deadlock and she is very good she is at least A-tier.
Clove is a smoker with a self heal and self revive. It's really hard to match a kit like that. I'd go so far as to say that Clove is THE agent that everyone should learn at least a little bit because of how good she is Cypher is a bit tricky. As someone who's been more or less a cypher one trick ever since Valorant first came out I will say that he's still very strong and unmatched in info-gathering but the delay on his wires is something I really don't like. Part of what made Cypher's wires so good was you either had to destroy that as soon as possible to avoid getting wall-banged or you had to be the sacrifice for your team push onto the site he's holding. While I do think that it's something that I and other Cypher mains will just have to get used to it also feels like the wires have lost a little value with the delay which gives the person extra time to get the wire before they get revealed. Breach I feel is a little low given how good his flashes are. With other agents like Yoru, KAY/O and Skye you still you have a split second to look away and dodge the flash where as Breach's flash is almost instant and is way harder to avoid. While I do agree that he is definitely more "set stuff up for later" agent I still feel he can be good for flashes if nothing else
i agree with what you said abt cypher lol i mained clove for a good couple weeks now, i picked up the game like 2 months ago, i recruited cypher like 3 days and his kit was soooo awkward to use in the first couple of matches (especially after getting used to clove's lmao) but hes just sooo good i even found a very good camera spot on my own since
The last time i seen my self rank up a shit ton was when i instalocked yoru a shit ton but since i started to fill ive been doing dog shit should i go back to instalocking yoru?
If you can do the job of a dualist and have the gamesense and quickthinking to use yoru's tp and clone effectively, then 100% yes, you'll just find yourself abusing his abilities to counter site holds, flank around the map, rotate super fast and worry less about 3-1-1 setups especially on thrifty rounds, and have the potential of completely big braining everyone with his high skill ceiling by faking tps and using the clone (for example faking rotates, fake tp+fake clone, use ult+clone, use ult to pickup bomb then fake the other site to tp back to original site, sky is the limit) The other agents don't really have potential that goes as deeeep as this, it depends on how far you're willing to take it but honestly you should bottleneck this potential by your enemies' gamesense, overdoing/overcomplicating yoru plays won't work as well as in higher elo.
Put Clove on A teir and omen on S if riot buffs clove's smoke duration then she will be S teir Omen is still very strong because of his smoke duration nd the distance he can smoke from he can play from anywhere and with his tps he gets alot of freedom to punish enemies he can op or hide like a rat with a shotgun inside his smoke moreover his ult is very flexible nd can pressure enemies with no info he should definitely be S
I wish they could decrease or even delete Astra's cooldown to use a star after placing it because that's the main reason she's unplayable atm. If only we could see an Astra meta instead of a Neon one...
astra aint even bad in the tournament rn on some maps she has more then 70% pick rate she is still a very strong agent its just that omen is so much better rn that ppl play omen over her if omen gets hard nurfed were prob back in astra meta
I think it’s ironic you rate harbor above astra, even including pro play when astra, with the 5th star back, is now seeing way more pro play than harbor and doing infinitely better than him. Not to mention that astra fits on way more team comps compared to harbor and has better utility overall. It’s actually insane saying astra is the worst and valuing harbor over her lmaoo
Astra is much much more difficult to use. And relies team help. Specially the fact that you are vulnerable when in astral plane. Harbour is safer for most in ranked.
Ain't gonna like like from bronze to gold i always insta lock reyna when i was in plat till asc I've learn to fill and play everyone but sentinels but i end up hard stuck asc for 5 act until recently i insta lock reyna everyround in asc 2 and i win like 14matches and only lose 2 mvping most of my games making the first season i hit immortal
What makes skye harder than brim or fade? I've mained all 3 at different points. I'm curious tho, since she seems beginner friendly, especially since her bird can't be shot or used to fake flash anymore.
I used to main skye and climbed from silver to ascendant in 2 acts and after the nerfs I dropped bacck to diamond 2. I'm playing yoru now and back to ascendant 3. Skye is B tier on certain maps but for the most part she is C at best
As a yoru main yoru should be higher, since his flash has a lot of potential. If I can use his clone and flash right, he can be pretty deadly. And his ult can make flanking easier
this new patch makes sage much better choice as you can just buy regen armor and when you get hit it'll essentially heal you 25 (because it absorbs 100% of the damage it acts like just health) and you can heal yourself 50hp thats insane
Im still finding my main. Im currently playing brim, sage, raze and cypher depending on what i feel like which i dont know how to handel. Note im silver 3
This video really helps me bcuz i am playing for while and i like playing chamber and reached bronze but its gets hard when teammates aren't doing much. I also felt like i am becoming brain dead player either i am getting 2k 3k or whiffing every single shot. I really want to learn by gamesense and awareness since i learned aim and op with chamber
honestly not bad tier list, as someone who's played a lot of deadlock I can say the B isnt a bad spot, personally she is a imo but b is still a great spot
even tho i dont play kayo, putting him at d is diabolical. if u get technical and actually do some lineups, he can win round. he can make cyphers, kjs and others util completely useless. :)
Cypher trip nerfs are actually substantial. You can shoot his trips without raze or soba util with the new delay. You can still get sprayed but ur not scanned for the short amnt of time which is enough to shoot the trip. I still think he’s very good senti but probably low a or high b now. People won’t be as scared to push a cypher trip because it’s not an instant scan where they just get sprayed
I gotta disagree with the astra take. She is super good. I dont think i’ve ever played a game where astra wasn’t top fragging. Man you can shoot her smokes, in her ult you can’t hear a damn thing on the outside of her dome. I love having one on my team because shes a unicorn but i prefer having her on my team because shes their more self sufficient instead of worrying about them dying quick
I don't get why chamber is always in C tier, after the recent buff to his TP, I think he should be in B tier due to the buffs to his guns as well as the range of the tp
@@evangingerson1271 Dude, I'm talking about the buffs chamber received in patch 8.03 where they brought back down the price of each headhunter bullet to 100 creds and increasing the fire rate of his ult to 0.9 per second. Did you forget about the buffs he's received from patch 6.11, 8.03, and his recent buff in patch 9.05 I bet you did, it's no wonder why people don't talk about him anymore
My game sense and aim are top notch I make wise decisions but I think my problem is that I can not adapt to situation as much as I need that's why I'm still hard stuck gold T^T
Dont Reyna and Chamber come down to the same point? Why Are They so far apart? Yes, Chamber might need some sort of team setup, but that doesnt bring him down THAT far
KAYO is soooo good in abyss and I disagree with your ranking system. You really should compare the map utilization of certain agents in ranked. Some agents can hold a site by them selves if executed correctly
So here's my opinion. Astra having 5 stars is completely insane. I've been playing astra recently after the buff, and it is completely underrated. I wouldn't go as far to say I'm an astra main, its just that she's so fking crazy its weird that you said harbour was SUBSTANTIALLY better than astra despite this buff. I admit she's bad low elo, but being one of the best controllers right now in high elo, I disagree with you on being the worst controller in the game KAYO is just really good. The flash is strong, the molly is good enough, and the ults purpose is to suppress? so Idk why you said the impact was minimal. Breach is very good too! Very easy to play, you just need good map awareness, and timing can easily be seen in plat lobbies, so again I just think C tier is way too harsh for these two amazing initiators, besides the fact that you cannot get info. Vyse shouldn't be higher than breach or kayo, but C tier makes sense. I will say this is very much targetted to golds, because sage's only good map was Icebox, and currently Icebox is cooked, and the buffs don't regard any info gathering abilities like what Kj and Cypher have atm, even Vyse can gather info, which allows to control space. She's fine on split but you would need to run a double senti comp typically unless targeted to gold/plat lobbies. Viper is so bad on solo smokes and tbh nobody likes double smokes comp in low elo, so I would have placed her lower Dl can't hold flank. Isn't horrible just not higher than Vyse Iso. I won't lie seeing him up so high surprised me because right now, he is worse than Reyna. Reyna got indirectly buffed from the recent patch especially the regen shield, and seeing Iso above RAZE, JETT AND NEON is absolutely nuts to me because it is objectively false... The shield is the only good thing in his kit, and even that got hard nerfed. Raze's kit provides so much more entry potential, and great movement/chip. Neon and Jett also have great movement unlike iso. The ult, is 60/40 unlike neon and raze where its more like 70/30 and 90/10 respectively. The wall is just difficult because you can't control how far it goes, and honestly gives the opponent more room to play with. The vulnerable is too niche and you 9/10 times will find it useless, final thoughts, iso shouldn't be above the entry duelists. Omen and clove need to switch simply because clove is too unreliable with omen's tp being extremely flexible. KJ and Cypher are interchangeable, very map reliant, I would put them on the same tier. Gekko got nerfed hard but I don't play him enough to give him a good review, I personally think he's not the best inti anymore though
My request is sligtly stupid i think I want to play omen but dont know other 2 agents to play inorder to improve on omen can you tell some trios of agents to play and impove on a main agent in valorent
Not gonna lie putting Astra as D tier after buff is diabolical just say yall don’t know how to play her simple and it’s actually not that hard to play her
the editing makes me think my screen has dust 😭
Yeah, me too
fr i thought it was just me
Ohh like the black dots on the white background? Interesting. Thanks for the feedback!
Saaaaame
literally
8:55 As a viper main if you want to climb with Viper you have to play with a double smoke comp, because as solo controller she's not good at all anymore, her smokes dont last long enough to even plant the spike sometimes
Yup at least for heven and sunset
@IamAK1487 Pearl too
As a viper main also, i agree
Depends on map
she’s basically a sentinel tbh
bro just didn’t want to add any clove clips
Fade really depends on your team, unfortunately. At least in my experiences, low elo players are too afraid of dying and don't capitalize off of her aggressive kit.
initiator role entirely is hard to rank up with in low elo, but it's more specifically fade and breach. if you have zero comms, or as you said teammates afraid of dying, just avoid playing them entirely. hell I even throw my own body when my KD is low, and my duelists are STILL afraid to push in.
edit: another thing for breach, in the case that your team does push, they somehow walk into your util.
Yeh just got Fade few days ago and struggling to push with my team.
@@CrAzY799999Breach feels like he can alone which is why I prefer him to Fade. No setup with his easy flash.
I have my duo so my Fade on Pearl works fine in Plat+ lobbies
she became a good entry initiator with Cypher nerfs, like you trigger a trap with the cat and ur team breaks the trap, she is kinda underrated
33:30 Bro that 180 no scope was crazy
i was literally about to comment that😭
@@jayzigaming4482fr
Classic triggerbot
As a deadlock main, i truly thinked she will be on d, im happy that actually people started seeing deadlock as an agent with potential
In low elo, only deadlock mains that know the exact spot where people most likely making noice
*thought
Putting Breach that low is crazy. People can't dodge his flashes vast majority of times until you hit maybe high Asc. Breach is probably the best agent for climbing even if you don't have that good of an aim. He's super easy to play, every single one of his abilities is really good (especially with the recent overall stun buffs) and he is really effective on both offense and defense. I don't know wtf is happening in imm/radiant lobbies, but in low to mid-high elos, ratty Breaches that run away as soon as they see you and only peek you with flashes and stuns is a nightmare to play against.
I’m one of those breach 😅
Immo1 player here Breach is not self-sufficient enough because it can be difficult to play off your own util (besides the ult) the flash is very easily turnable in 90% of situations
It is hard to get value out of teamplay due to the nature of competitive queue (esp low elo, no com etc./ stunning your own teammates)
It is difficult to get rid of sentinel util (one of the main things you need from initiator)
He's okay but inefficient to rank up - sova is definitely clear (for ranked) breaking trips/ post plant etc. but even then if your below diamond just lock duelist like raze jett or reyna and frag because mechanics over everything in these elo and these agents enable you to frag and open space for your team (raze/ jett esp is scaleable to higher elo)
OR Clove she is sleeper pick psuedo duelist/ smoke so you dont have braindead controller
Breach is quite good when you go flank a site by yourself, or when you have good communication and not a brain dead team. If your team is horrible they will run into your flashes and stuns even though you’re flashing and stunning well. I have a friend that plays Breach, and assists me (Cypher) and another friend(Reyna) and he’s really good in assisting Reyna in getting kills.
As someone who's coming back after 2 years bro I was hella surprised by how badly they dug Astra into the ground, she was a menace in Immo-Radiant lobbies 2 years ago.
sure
Phoenix could be easily S tier with his new kit. Him having rechargeable flashes is insane
Me personally, I think yoru has the highest skill ceiling in the game, but god damn is it hard to reach it
Fully agree, you can really push the limits of how deep your plays can go with the teleports and especially fakes with the clone and noise you can make. It also somewhat depends on your enemies, the better their gamesense, the higher the chance of you fooling them with the big brain plays since they're more likely to think ahead (or try to) which you'll exploit to surprise them.
Imo, this is a perfect example of it, I'm a yoru main and I usually just play unrated, my comp rank is currently gold 1 (played a game yesterday and got a double rankup to g3 but I rarely play it so it doesn't matter)
I was in a 1v2 on bind, killed someone near long, put my teleport there, and went through the portal, then faked going to B by shooting a bit and letting my clone walk up into CT under heaven (also delayed it a little bit so if there was a late rotate, the footsteps would be heard as they stop, which could be me shifting etc)
I tp back to long but I delay it incase they're close enough to hear me, and planted the bomb.
As I was planting, one of the two enemies came up from inside the site and killed me, like despite hearing the portal and shots in the OTHER SIDE OF THE MAP, they still decided to sit in the middle of the site, absolutely certain I could come back, and there's no chance they saw my teleport orb and thought they shouldn't break it and made a play off of it since they were far from long and they would've otherwise just camped it.
TLDR: the lower the rank, the simpler your plays should be
Yoru's big brain plays don't work that well in gold lobbies since gold players wouldn't have the same gamesense level, so a simpler and more straightforward playstyle is better.
Immortal though, go as deep as you think your enemies can, don't overcomplicate the plays and don't second guess yourself, if you go three steps ahead; the third step will bring you back to square one and it probably won't work as well as it should've
pretty big rant but profit
@@v7xgaming fr man i read ur whole comment i m s1 player people just like to camp tp instesd of breaking it i flash them then tp full flash still they just shoot blindly and get head the most frustrating thing is dying by tp camp i drop to bronze from silver 1 12 time and reach silver afte dropping to bronze 2 19 time i got worst tm8s and worst internet sometimes i got 8k ping :( and my yoru got instant lock many time and the bot flash they do bruh specting instant locker yoru feels like i m watching pastic 1 yoru doing big brain play in low elo is worst doing fake tp and peeking thinking they will be aiming the tp they heard but nah man they just ignore the tp sound 😑
@@Sh4dow.xe_ Damn man and especially the fact people are unreliable when you fake tp they don't look and when you tp there's always 3 people looking at you minimum lol
Eitherway at lower elos we should focus less on yoru abilities and whatnot and just focus on the basics like aiming movement decision making etc and use the abilities to compliment that, like normal peeks with the flash, pushing behind clone, using it to clear areas, etc
@@v7xgaming yup pretending fake clone is worst even ur face is sticking on wall they willshoot u for no reason
33:30 that no scope WAS CRAZY
I climbed from bronze 2 to dia 2 with cypher in a span of 5 months He def deserves S Tier!!
i love playing cypher just to get rotated every damn round ;-;
@@AnmolShrestha-bt6ms im on the other side. I hate playing against Cypher because my teammates never know when to rotate, like they will keep trying to enter Split B and die because they didn't anticipate the Cypher trips and one-ways 😭
@@cmlyn77well he is nerfed af now
@@AnmolShrestha-bt6mspredict where rhey gon come and place trips deep so they dont know ur there
He is in S-tier 31:40
Tier list based on Agent win rates across all ranks:
S-tier: Clove, Reyna
A-tier: Deadlock, Sage, Cypher, Neon, Phoenix, Gekko, Sova, Killjoy, Iso, Jett
B-tier: Fade, Raze, Vyse, Chamber, Breach, Brimstone, Skye
C-tier: Viper, Yoru, Astra, Omen, KAY/O
D-tier: Harbor
forgot astra in D
@@lijunlive No, based on winrates alone Astra isn't D
The less team dependant is your agent the better in soloq low ranks, i believe. Any duelist is S tier because of self-sustain and aggressiveness. Among sentinels, sage and deadlock again are good, because they are versatile and don't have to stick to the site like kj/cypher where you sometimes just miss your setup especially on flank watching. Clove and Omen hands down way better than any other controller because they can be both aggressive and lurk. Initiator is only gekko, because he is pretty good at rough pushing through, others like sova/fade/kayo are too intel dependant and it's not that important if your team doesn't communicate
lurking on clove is an interesting take, I think astra and omen are the best controllers in the game period. and deadlock and cypher are probably the best sentis, and as for intiators gekko and sova r on top and duelists is just neon atm.
giving reyna that high but breach that low tells me everything lmao
Is there any way to show the tier list at the end of the video ?
love when clove was mentioned
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Same
Why
She was mentioned
might be dumb then lol ill go back and see ty
I would swap Astra and Viper. Viper can't solo smoke anymore, and in comp, nobody else is gonna lock smokes. Astra has good smokes, and can choose 2 spaces to have an advantage taking (Pull+Stun). Taking space is a huge weak point for most controllers. She also has some post plant with pull.
Viper is very good with space with her wall. Especially on maps like Pearl. You can easily rush to plant spike.
Sage is my new solo instalock .
With regen shield and her instant 50 health , you are running around with 225 hp off the rip .
Really keeps me alive and allows me to take on mutiple fights ! .
I see why people trash on chamber a lot but I think he’s really underrated especially with his recent tp buff and headhunter buffs. For example if you just buy 4 headhunter shots and light shields on first round you’ll just dominate everyone
I'm a cypher main in Ascendent I and the nerfs are massive you need to change your whole play style on defence and that made me think he is in A-tier.
After the cypher nerfs I started to play Deadlock and she is very good she is at least A-tier.
Clove is a smoker with a self heal and self revive. It's really hard to match a kit like that. I'd go so far as to say that Clove is THE agent that everyone should learn at least a little bit because of how good she is
Cypher is a bit tricky. As someone who's been more or less a cypher one trick ever since Valorant first came out I will say that he's still very strong and unmatched in info-gathering but the delay on his wires is something I really don't like. Part of what made Cypher's wires so good was you either had to destroy that as soon as possible to avoid getting wall-banged or you had to be the sacrifice for your team push onto the site he's holding. While I do think that it's something that I and other Cypher mains will just have to get used to it also feels like the wires have lost a little value with the delay which gives the person extra time to get the wire before they get revealed.
Breach I feel is a little low given how good his flashes are. With other agents like Yoru, KAY/O and Skye you still you have a split second to look away and dodge the flash where as Breach's flash is almost instant and is way harder to avoid. While I do agree that he is definitely more "set stuff up for later" agent I still feel he can be good for flashes if nothing else
i agree with what you said abt cypher lol i mained clove for a good couple weeks now, i picked up the game like 2 months ago, i recruited cypher like 3 days and his kit was soooo awkward to use in the first couple of matches (especially after getting used to clove's lmao) but hes just sooo good i even found a very good camera spot on my own since
Cypher is really hard for me to play against. He’s definitely S tier and an agent I hate seeing on the other team.
29:00 did anyone notice he is tryin to plant without spike lmao
The last time i seen my self rank up a shit ton was when i instalocked yoru a shit ton but since i started to fill ive been doing dog shit should i go back to instalocking yoru?
Yea learn a few agents and just instalock em
If you can do the job of a dualist and have the gamesense and quickthinking to use yoru's tp and clone effectively, then 100% yes, you'll just find yourself abusing his abilities to counter site holds, flank around the map, rotate super fast and worry less about 3-1-1 setups especially on thrifty rounds, and have the potential of completely big braining everyone with his high skill ceiling by faking tps and using the clone (for example faking rotates, fake tp+fake clone, use ult+clone, use ult to pickup bomb then fake the other site to tp back to original site, sky is the limit)
The other agents don't really have potential that goes as deeeep as this, it depends on how far you're willing to take it but honestly you should bottleneck this potential by your enemies' gamesense, overdoing/overcomplicating yoru plays won't work as well as in higher elo.
Play agent that ranks you up and dont fill just to make your teammates happy to just perform worst
Put Clove on A teir and omen on S if riot buffs clove's smoke duration then she will be S teir Omen is still very strong because of his smoke duration nd the distance he can smoke from he can play from anywhere and with his tps he gets alot of freedom to punish enemies he can op or hide like a rat with a shotgun inside his smoke moreover his ult is very flexible nd can pressure enemies with no info he should definitely be S
I wish they could decrease or even delete Astra's cooldown to use a star after placing it because that's the main reason she's unplayable atm. If only we could see an Astra meta instead of a Neon one...
You do realize you're basically asking for pre-nerf broken Astra right? There already was an Astra meta that's why she got nerfed
astra aint even bad in the tournament rn on some maps she has more then 70% pick rate she is still a very strong agent its just that omen is so much better rn that ppl play omen over her if omen gets hard nurfed were prob back in astra meta
Astra is strong, the video is just a bit misleading
this dude fr put gekko as F in the thumbnail for him to be S tier in the end
Ye he Always does that
i think a good change to neon would be making her slide not recharge after kills or only 1 slide at the start of the round
Astra in this mappool is good right?
If you got the aim , and you don't want to entry first, play chamber, I climbed from silver to ascendant with chamber mostly.
i was legit terrible at this game, no idea what i was doing, almost got immortal purely from picking pre-nerfed chamber
20:16 why did we get a random Reyna clip😂
Went from iron to imm with Omen, Sova, Cypher
Breach maining from a while, left reyna as many instalock it. But it was one best to counter braindead neons
u got me over here blowing on the screen cause i thought it had dust 💀
I think it’s ironic you rate harbor above astra, even including pro play when astra, with the 5th star back, is now seeing way more pro play than harbor and doing infinitely better than him. Not to mention that astra fits on way more team comps compared to harbor and has better utility overall. It’s actually insane saying astra is the worst and valuing harbor over her lmaoo
Astra is much much more difficult to use. And relies team help. Specially the fact that you are vulnerable when in astral plane.
Harbour is safer for most in ranked.
Ain't gonna like like from bronze to gold i always insta lock reyna when i was in plat till asc I've learn to fill and play everyone but sentinels but i end up hard stuck asc for 5 act until recently i insta lock reyna everyround in asc 2 and i win like 14matches and only lose 2 mvping most of my games making the first season i hit immortal
Being a recent Sage main has gotten me up in ranks a lot. 🤙 my favorite op
What makes skye harder than brim or fade? I've mained all 3 at different points. I'm curious tho, since she seems beginner friendly, especially since her bird can't be shot or used to fake flash anymore.
I used to main skye and climbed from silver to ascendant in 2 acts and after the nerfs I dropped bacck to diamond 2. I'm playing yoru now and back to ascendant 3. Skye is B tier on certain maps but for the most part she is C at best
the disrespect on harbour is crazy bro clearly hasnt seen the boing boing gibby jump and cubby walls
its crazy that all duellists are so balanced as the other one
As a yoru main yoru should be higher, since his flash has a lot of potential. If I can use his clone and flash right, he can be pretty deadly. And his ult can make flanking easier
Why skip to particular agents when you can see this goat's opinion on all of them
I would put kayo c or b, and breach a, breach is really easy to play effectively, and duo q is free
I just realised if you get reyna flashed you cannot get flashed by anything else. Is this a bug? Can you try it out?
The only tier lists I accept are the ones with Your on S. They are based.
But tbf, if my boy Omen is on A or S, I'm chilling ❤
As a cypher main this video made me very happy :3
Why did I get a 7 minute unskippable ad inbuilt into the video
this new patch makes sage much better choice as you can just buy regen armor and when you get hit it'll essentially heal you 25 (because it absorbs 100% of the damage it acts like just health) and you can heal yourself 50hp thats insane
clicks on this vid for clove and then there was no clove
Im still finding my main. Im currently playing brim, sage, raze and cypher depending on what i feel like which i dont know how to handel. Note im silver 3
Lol, i play clove, and i had to look. Maybe have all the agents there in future:)
brother forgot chamber
This video really helps me bcuz i am playing for while and i like playing chamber and reached bronze but its gets hard when teammates aren't doing much. I also felt like i am becoming brain dead player either i am getting 2k 3k or whiffing every single shot. I really want to learn by gamesense and awareness since i learned aim and op with chamber
honestly not bad tier list, as someone who's played a lot of deadlock I can say the B isnt a bad spot, personally she is a imo but b is still a great spot
From iron to gold 3 with viper before nerf. Miss those times.😢
even tho i dont play kayo, putting him at d is diabolical. if u get technical and actually do some lineups, he can win round. he can make cyphers, kjs and others util completely useless. :)
As a former gekko main id say that hes rather a than s tier but its defenitly close
Brim and kj are by far the best post plant agents. So i believe brim should be higher. Lineups go crazy
One does not see very many line-ups in the lower ranks
@deepfry89 i am b2 and have lineups for all maps...
@@wiebje3050 ive been plat with brim only and didnt have very many. usually ppl dont bother studying every single maps lineups unless a high elo otp.
His stim beacon is a water ability slot tho it changes nothing if he had it or not so that’s why I think he’s not that good
@@WeDieInTheDark stim beacon makes it possible to rotate in a few seconds
@Dittozkul I play kayo is solo queue ranked. I know you said he is bad but he is so fun for me. What should I do?
putting vyse above breach is definitely something😂
As a Cypher one-trick, If only i had good mechanics, id easily be at least ascendant. Stuck in plat.
Cypher trip nerfs are actually substantial. You can shoot his trips without raze or soba util with the new delay. You can still get sprayed but ur not scanned for the short amnt of time which is enough to shoot the trip. I still think he’s very good senti but probably low a or high b now.
People won’t be as scared to push a cypher trip because it’s not an instant scan where they just get sprayed
Nah it was S earlier, A at most now
33:31 sorry sir but what was that 180 no scope op kill
Best Gurdian skins video bro
You are my favourite yap session ngl
I do think that cypher and kj are both pretty equal especially on ice box there’s basically no difference which one you play you’ll preform equally
What is better, clove,iso or cypher
Ngl as somebody learning raze a good geko main makes my job so much easier
Let bro cook 🔥
so bad tbh
as a kj main who fills clove, i guess i chose well, i mostly just enjoy their gameplay (im hardstuck iron tho lol HELP)
HUHH ASTRA D??
Finaly some one who understands how good gekko is
breach helped me climb from gold to asc HE IS THE BEST INITIATOR FOR ME!
Fr
Breach is my main
One of my mains. I want to main at least one of each role. I can’t just play one.
@@evangingerson1271 i play other agents like jett , neon , clove or sova
Crosshair code at 3:25 ?
Ngl, would put vyse in G tier. Feels like a 4v5 ability wise if she is in the game
Fr the wall got overhyped so much
As a cypher main hes still kinda goated
I sitll think harbor is underrated
he shouldb atleast b
I gotta disagree with the astra take. She is super good. I dont think i’ve ever played a game where astra wasn’t top fragging. Man you can shoot her smokes, in her ult you can’t hear a damn thing on the outside of her dome. I love having one on my team because shes a unicorn but i prefer having her on my team because shes their more self sufficient instead of worrying about them dying quick
trying to plant with wingman without spike. real. i do it way too many times
I don't get why chamber is always in C tier, after the recent buff to his TP, I think he should be in B tier due to the buffs to his guns as well as the range of the tp
If you are good enough most players will have great fun skill and needing buffs to guns like Chamber isn’t needed.
@@evangingerson1271 Dude, I'm talking about the buffs chamber received in patch 8.03 where they brought back down the price of each headhunter bullet to 100 creds and increasing the fire rate of his ult to 0.9 per second. Did you forget about the buffs he's received from patch 6.11, 8.03, and his recent buff in patch 9.05 I bet you did, it's no wonder why people don't talk about him anymore
Chamber deff an underrated character
I feel like kayo is underrated. Like I be flashing for myself and getting free kills
My game sense and aim are top notch I make wise decisions but I think my problem is that I can not adapt to situation as much as I need that's why I'm still hard stuck gold T^T
Dont Reyna and Chamber come down to the same point? Why Are They so far apart? Yes, Chamber might need some sort of team setup, but that doesnt bring him down THAT far
Thanks. Someone puts Deadlock finally in B
I love playing Vise and hearing some one say shes boring is so sad
Stop hating on Astra with 5 stars she’s ok now
Astra is honestly really good, but she's really hard to play. I've gone into customs with her and I don't find her intuitive at all.
She is really good if you have good coms team who are playing as a team or maybe friends you play with but that’s about it.
i climbed from silver 2 to diamond 1 in 1.5 acts by using 90% neon ans 10% reyna
Still cleaning my screen
finally no more deadlock slander
KAYO is soooo good in abyss and I disagree with your ranking system. You really should compare the map utilization of certain agents in ranked. Some agents can hold a site by them selves if executed correctly
I ain't gonna lie, this just feels untrue asf, and sounds like it is mainly targeted at golds
So here's my opinion.
Astra having 5 stars is completely insane. I've been playing astra recently after the buff, and it is completely underrated. I wouldn't go as far to say I'm an astra main, its just that she's so fking crazy its weird that you said harbour was SUBSTANTIALLY better than astra despite this buff. I admit she's bad low elo, but being one of the best controllers right now in high elo, I disagree with you on being the worst controller in the game
KAYO is just really good. The flash is strong, the molly is good enough, and the ults purpose is to suppress? so Idk why you said the impact was minimal.
Breach is very good too! Very easy to play, you just need good map awareness, and timing can easily be seen in plat lobbies, so again I just think C tier is way too harsh for these two amazing initiators, besides the fact that you cannot get info.
Vyse shouldn't be higher than breach or kayo, but C tier makes sense.
I will say this is very much targetted to golds, because sage's only good map was Icebox, and currently Icebox is cooked, and the buffs don't regard any info gathering abilities like what Kj and Cypher have atm, even Vyse can gather info, which allows to control space. She's fine on split but you would need to run a double senti comp typically unless targeted to gold/plat lobbies.
Viper is so bad on solo smokes and tbh nobody likes double smokes comp in low elo, so I would have placed her lower
Dl can't hold flank. Isn't horrible just not higher than Vyse
Iso. I won't lie seeing him up so high surprised me because right now, he is worse than Reyna. Reyna got indirectly buffed from the recent patch especially the regen shield, and seeing Iso above RAZE, JETT AND NEON is absolutely nuts to me because it is objectively false... The shield is the only good thing in his kit, and even that got hard nerfed. Raze's kit provides so much more entry potential, and great movement/chip. Neon and Jett also have great movement unlike iso. The ult, is 60/40 unlike neon and raze where its more like 70/30 and 90/10 respectively. The wall is just difficult because you can't control how far it goes, and honestly gives the opponent more room to play with. The vulnerable is too niche and you 9/10 times will find it useless, final thoughts, iso shouldn't be above the entry duelists.
Omen and clove need to switch simply because clove is too unreliable with omen's tp being extremely flexible.
KJ and Cypher are interchangeable, very map reliant, I would put them on the same tier.
Gekko got nerfed hard but I don't play him enough to give him a good review, I personally think he's not the best inti anymore though
My request is sligtly stupid i think I want to play omen but dont know other 2 agents to play inorder to improve on omen can you tell some trios of agents to play and impove on a main agent in valorent
So 9.11 vyse got a buff.
Not gonna lie putting Astra as D tier after buff is diabolical just say yall don’t know how to play her simple and it’s actually not that hard to play her
Love your videos