Skye was the 14th Agent to be added to the huge tally of Agents that Valorant has. However, she is truly unique with no agent like her. Hailing from Australia, this Initiator has a few tricks up her sleeve to help her teammates attack and defend better. This Valorant Skye Guide will help you play the agent better.
As an Initiator, her basic responsibility is to get her teammates entry into the Site easily. With her ability, she has to take the first step for the Duelist to find space in the Site and Attack.
Teams that add her to the playing five definitely have an advantage as she is one of the greatest additions players can have on their side– Attack or Defense.
She was called upon by Sage to help the agents and this guide will help you understand Sage’s help better.
Contents
- Abilities of the Agent
- Strats for the Defender side
- Strats for the Attacker side
- Best team composition
Valorant Skye Guide: Abilities
There are a few things that make Skye one of the most essential Agents when playing casual ranked matches with friends or when playing competitively. Her basic role as an Initiator makes sure she gets good intel. Apart from that, she also uses her basic abilities to initiate attacks on the enemies.
Her other role is also of a healer, just like Sage, and can help her allies a lot with her flexible play style. When required, she can hunt down enemies, or she can just help her teammates recover. Given below are her abilities that show why exactly she is the perfect pick for any side.
Signature Ability: Guiding light (250 Credits)
EQUIP a hawk trinket. FIRE to send it forward. HOLD FIRE to guide the hawk in the direction of your crosshair. RE-USE while the hawk is in flight to transform it into a flash that plays a “hit confirm” if an enemy was within range and line of sight.
Ultimate Ability: Seekers (7 Points)
EQUIP a Seeker trinket. FIRE to send out three Seekers to track down the three closest enemies. If a Seeker reaches its target, it near sights them.
Trailblazer (250 Credits)
EQUIP a Tasmanian tiger trinket. FIRE to send out and take control of the predator. While in control, FIRE to leap forward, exploding in a concussive blast and damaging directly hit enemies.
Regrowth (200 Credits)
EQUIP a healing trinket. HOLD FIRE to channel, healing allies in range and line of sight. Can be reused until her healing pool is depleted. Skye cannot heal herself.
(Agent’s abilities are as per Riot Games and have not been edited)
Strategies for attacker side
Skye mains need to follow an easy strategy for playing her on the attacking side. Since her basic role is that of an Initiator, she will begin the attack. She would flash the enemies, and make room for the Duelists to enter the Site. Once that is done, she can take a step back and help her allies anytime they need to heal or hunt the enemy.
- Utilize the Guiding Light to collect information about the Site.
- Utilize Guiding Light to make room for the team to enter the Site
- Use Trailblazer to check for any lurking enemies and daze them.
Strategies for the Defender side
While defending the Site, Skye’s job would be to make the most of her abilities to collect all the information about the attacker’s side. She can use flash and blind the Attackers for a while so that the Duelists can push in easily. As mentioned earlier, she can also help heal her allies. However, she can not heal herself at any time.
- Utilize the Guiding Light to gather all the intel about the attacks the attackers could do
- Apply the Trailblazer to delay the enemy’s attack
- Heal your squad up before retaking.
Best team composition that works with Skye
The ideal team composition when working with Skye as an Initiator would be her, two Duelists, a Smoke, and a Sentinel. This composition works best for both the attacker side and the defender side because entry attack, and masking, all are taken care of.
The maps that Skye works best on are Icebox, Pearl, Ascent, and Bind. Bigger maps with longer hallways would just delay the entry process.
This is all for the guide on how to play Skye in Valorant. For more such guides on Valorant Agents, be sure to check out our page.
