Valorant Phoenix information – 30 suggestions and tips that every one Phoenix gamers ought to know

Phoenix occupies a particular place within the Valorant characters roster. Armed together with his Curveball flashes and damage-over-time skills, he’s a spectacular agent for flushing enemies out of hiding and countering gamers who maintain angles in wait to your assault. But as with all Valorant brokers, there’s much more to him than simply the floor element – and our Valorant Phoenix information will make sure you’re as much as the problem of utilizing all 4 of his skills as successfully as doable.

Valorant Phoenix information

• Phoenix abilities overview
• Phoenix tips – Hot Hands
• Phoenix tips – Blaze
• Phoenix tips – Curveball
• Phoenix ultimate tips – Run It Back

Phoenix skills overview

Before we get caught into the in-depth suggestions and tips, it’s good to get a fast refresher on every of Phoenix’s skills and the way they work.

	Hot Hands | Signature | 1 cost | Recharge mid-round by incomes 2 kills
	Equip a fireball. Fire to throw a fireball that explodes after a set period of time or upon hitting the bottom, making a lingering fireplace zone that damages enemies.
	Blaze | Purchasable | 1 cost | Costs 200c
	Equip a flame wall. Fire to create a line of flames that strikes ahead making a wall that blocks imaginative and prescient and damages gamers passing by way of it. Hold Fire to bend the wall within the path of your crosshair.
	Curveball | Purchasable | 2 fees | Costs 100c every
	Equip a flare orb that takes a curving path and detonates shortly after throwing, impairing imaginative and prescient. Fire to curve the flare orb to the left, detonating and blinding any participant who sees the orb. Alternate fireplace to curve the flare orb to the best.
	Run It Back | Ultimate | 6 fees
	Instantly place a marker at Phoenix’s location. While this means is lively, dying or permitting the timer to run out will finish this means and produce Phoenix again to this location with full well being.

Right, now I feel we’re able to get caught into the aforementioned Phoenix suggestions and tips, don’t you?

Phoenix suggestions – Hot Hands

1. The fireplace left behind by Hot Hands lasts simply four seconds – sufficient to heal your self by a most of 45 well being.
2. You can’t throw Hot Hands a really lengthy distance, as a result of after a certain quantity of journey time the projectile will drop straight downwards it doesn’t matter what. However, like many different skills it does bounce off partitions, lending you further utility in additional confined areas.
3. There’s little or no motive to ever use the underhand throw possibility for Hot Hands. It’s helpful for skills that bounce, however Hot Hands will activate the second it touches a floor, so there’s actually no motive to ever use the underhand.
4. You can’t hear when enemies are being broken by Hot Hands, so don’t lie in wait anticipating to listen to something.
5. While the fireplace from your individual Hot Hands (or Blaze) will heal you, the identical skills from an enemy Phoenix will damage you. So don’t attempt to stand in enemy flame anticipating your HP to replenish.
6. The predictable drop and velocity of the Hot Hands projectile means you may study sure line-ups equivalent to these within the video beneath, from Valorant streamer Kephrii’s YouTube channel.


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Phoenix suggestions – Blaze

7. Phoenix’s Blaze wall lasts 6 seconds, and heals you on the similar charge as Hot Hands does, making Blaze a greater possibility for therapeutic. You can heal up by a most of 69 well being with a Blaze.
8. You can curve Blaze very sharply round corners and proceed to angle it till the wall is erected. This provides you further flexibility for blocking particular sections of maps – however don’t concern your self an excessive amount of with this. A straight wall is usually simply as efficient as a wibbly-wobbly wall.
9. Because Blaze solely lasts 6 seconds, don’t anticipate it to cover you lengthy sufficient to tug off extravagant repositions. It’s rather more like Jett’s Cloudburst than a Brimstone or Viper smoke – sufficient to dam line of sight when you shortly cross an space, however not rather more than that.
10. Despite its brevity, Blaze is a good software for enjoying mindgames together with your opponent. If you wall off a chokepoint, the enemy received’t know the place alongside the wall you may seem at any second, which is usually sufficient of an incentive for them to again off or duck into cowl.
11. Bear in thoughts that an enemy may stroll by way of your wall with out sustaining a horrible quantity of injury, so be ready for this eventuality. On the entire although, gamers would moderately not threat it, making Blaze a reasonably efficient zoning software.
12. As with Hot Hands, you can not hear when enemies are being burnt by Phoenix’s Blaze wall. Just one other factor to keep in mind.
13. The vertical angle of Blaze is essential, due to the best way that the wall is created. Think of it like this: no matter path your throwable projectile takes by way of the air, think about there’s a shadow instantly beneath it on the bottom. That shadow is the road from which the wall arises. And which means in case you angle the throwable in order that it arcs excessive of a constructing, the wall will successfully intersect the constructing, showing on the opposite aspect in addition to in your aspect. But in case you try to simply throw the projectile on the constructing, it would affect, and the wall will solely be drawn as much as the constructing’s edge and no additional.

Phoenix suggestions – Curveball

14. Despite the quick life and vary of the power, your Curveballs are very able to bouncing off partitions. In reality, that is usually what goes unsuitable: you throw the Curveball too quick a distance, it bounces off the nook you meant it to go round, and instantly you’ve blinded your self.
15. The flash of Curveball operates by way of line-of-sight. If the game can draw a line between the flash and a participant’s face with out discovering any obstacles, then that participant can be blinded. This is the way it works for Breach’s Flashpoint means as nicely.
16. You can throw the Curveball up or down, no matter its curve. This is notably helpful on the map Split, as a result of you may throw a Curveball instantly into or out of the vents that join A Heaven to Mid.
17. Players can look away from the flash to drastically shorten the period of the blind. Again, that is true of Breach’s Flashpoint means too.
18. Many gamers will reply to being blinded by firing pre-emptively at the place they anticipate you to peek from. And it’s a superb tactic that usually works. So watch out whenever you resolve to reveal your self after letting unfastened a Curveball.
19. Try to be as distant from the nook you need the Curveball to go spherical, whereas nonetheless really having the ability to get it not far away. Why? Because it means the ball will solely be seen for the tiniest period of time by enemies earlier than they’re blinded, giving them much less forewarning of what’s about to occur.
20. Be thoughtful of teammates when utilizing Curveball. It’s very straightforward to by accident blind your allies (to not point out your self). So watch out, or chances are you’ll discover that Phoenix isn’t the one individual in your staff able to flaming.
21. You can observe up a Curveball with major weapon-fire surprisingly shortly. In reality, you will be prepared to fireplace earlier than the flash even goes off. But don’t get too forward of your self. Immediately following up the Curveball as shortly as doable makes your actions predictable, and renders you susceptible to the aforementioned pre-firing technique.
22. I see plenty of Phoenix gamers flicking their view away from their very own Curveball simply after they throw it, to mitigate the results of the blind in case they by accident catch themselves with it. Which is ok, so long as you’ll be able to unlearn that behaviour as you enhance with Phoenix and now not have to hedge your bets in such a fashion.
23. Enemies can’t hear Phoenix’s finger-snap earlier than throwing a Curveball. Allies can, however enemies can’t. So don’t fear about that.

Phoenix final suggestions – Run It Back

24. Run It Back lasts 10 seconds. This will not be sufficient time to cross the complete map or go on a large flank, so be sure you solely use your final whenever you’re close to sufficient to the place you need to go. Run It Back is most helpful whenever you’re utilizing it to interrupt a stalemate at a chokepoint, so don’t squander it someplace you’re not going to see an enemy for the period.
25. You can use all of your common skills as regular whereas utilizing Phoenix’s final. It’s usually a good suggestion to at the least use a Curveball earlier than you push. After all, in case you get caught by a blinded enemy’s pre-fire, you’ll simply be despatched again to your beginning place moderately than dying outright.
26. You can activate Run It Back whereas working, and it received’t interrupt you.
27. For these questioning, you don’t go away a physique behind whereas utilizing this means. It’s not like Sova utilizing his Owl Drone. You don’t have to fret about somebody sneaking up in your dormant physique when you’re off elsewhere.
28. There’s an extended wind-down animation that happens after you come to your preliminary place. It might look cool, nevertheless it leaves you very susceptible to assault for a superb two seconds, so be sure you’re in a secure location.
29. No matter what occurs, you’ll lose any Armor you had on you as soon as you come after the final word finishes. This is counterbalanced by the truth that you’ll be returned with a assured 100 well being, even when “killed” whereas utilizing your ult.
30. A pleasant map-specific tip is to activate Run It Back from inside a teleporter room. This permits you to scout out the world with relative security, and in addition ensures your security as soon as you come.

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