How To Play Skye? | Valorant Agent Guide

If you're a "meta" type of person, you really need to learn Skye ASAP. Her utility kit has a broad usage, and your teammates will love you once they see you've picked her. Her dominance and consistency throughout the competitive scene and pubs make her the best Initiator right now.

Valorant Skye Abilities

(C) Regrowth

Her first ability is a healing trinket that heals allies in her range and line of sight. This ability can be reused as much as you want as long as there's still HP left in the healing pool.

Important note: Skye cannot heal herself.

(Q) Trailblazer

Her second ability is a Tasmanian tiger. The predator helps Skye gain intel, while also concussing & damaging enemies when exploding. Once you use the Trailblazer you gain control of the tiger and navigate to your liking. You can move and Jump, and if you happen to find an enemy on your way you can click "FIRE" to explode the tiger in the enemy's direction and do impact damage and concuss to them.

(E) Guiding Light

Her signature ability are her "birds". The hawks can work both like intel gatherers and also as a flash. To use the ability you must first equip it, and then click on FIRE.

Afterward, you have two choices:

• If you wish to guide the bird, don't release the "FIRE" hotkey when throwing it, but hold it and use your cursor to guide it
• If you wish to let the hawk fly in a straight like, just click "FIRE" once and that's it.

To use the flash and get the intel back whether someone was flashed or not, you have to click on "E" once you've decided that you want the bird to explode and blind everyone around her. If an enemy was flashed, you will hear Skye say "Blinded" which is an indicator that there's someone in the area.

(X) Seekers

Her ultimate ability is the "Seekers". Once thrown, three "Seekers" will roam around and track the three closest enemies. In case of the "Seeker" reaching a target, it will "NEARSIGHT" them. The Seekers have their own HP pool, and the enemies can shoot at them to destroy them.

How To Play Skye

Skye was one of the Agents to get hit by the nerf hammer recently as the pros loved to abuse her util kit during Champions 2023. The nerf was a much-needed one but hasn't really changed her popularity much. To play Skye properly you will have to plan ahead as you can't just throw her utilities randomly.

What Skye Nerf ? ? ? @VALORANT pic.twitter.com/XJCWiRx2eK

— ben :) (@bensnotfunny) September 1, 2023

Initiating Properly

As Skye has three abilities to effectively initiate and gain intel on the enemy positions you can freely use them when entrying sites. If you wish to cover a wide area opt out to use your birds to both flash and gain intel on the sites. If you wish to cover tight angles, the Trailblazer is your best friend here.

Stay Back And Survive

While your agent has an util kit to initiate, that doesn't mean that you need to go in with your Agent. Skye can play the long game, and as she has a heal, two charges on her birds, and a tiger you don't usually throw everything at once. Instead, your team needs you throughout the round and a late-round heal can be crucial for your Duelists.

Be Brave

Even though the game is filled with campers or lurkers, that is not encouraged at all as Valorant is a high pace FPS game. The instinct to go in and take advantage of a concuss or flash is something you will develop over time. The sound "Blinded" doesn't always mean "GO", but can in some cases gift you a free 3K when defending or attacking.

Best Maps For Skye

Our last chapter for this guide is the maps that are best suited for you to pick Skye on.

Bind

Bind's gimmicks and teleport give Skye a whole different dimension for her to play on. Both her Birds and Trailblazer can enter the teleport and gain valuable intel no other Agent can gather. Both on Attack & Defense, Skye can be a detrimental Agent your team will need so don't hesitate to pick her on this map.

Haven

Haven is a 3-site map, and while on defense every little intel you can get can be crucial. On a map where while on attack you need to be swift and plant ASAP, Skye's Intel kit can be very handy. There are equally good Agents for this map, but you will feel very comfy if you decide to play Skye on Haven.

These two are not the only good maps for Skye, but are the ones that she is the most meta pick right now. That would be all for this guide, and if you wish to check similar content to this one, check out below.

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