Valorant Raze information – 40 suggestions and tips that each Raze predominant ought to know

Out of all of the brokers accessible in Valorant, Raze is probably probably the most rage-inducing to contend towards. Her skillset is concentrated virtually completely on dealing direct harm, setting her effectively other than the remainder of the brokers in Valorant. But whereas her skills are pretty simple to familiarize yourself with, there’s an terrible lot extra to them – and her – than meets the attention. Our Valorant Raze information will stroll you thru some top-tier suggestions and tips for getting probably the most out of this bombastic demo professional.

Valorant Raze information

• Raze abilities overview
• Raze tips – Paint Shells
• Raze tips – Boom Bot
• Raze tips – Blast Pack
• Raze ultimate tips – Showstopper
• Some additional Raze tips

Raze skills overview

Seeing as you’re right here, I can fairly assume that you simply already know a little bit about Raze and her skillset. But there’s advantage in simply shortly biking via her skills once more earlier than we dive into our in-depth suggestions and tips – significantly for those who haven’t but caught up on the current modifications to her Paint Shells means:

	Paint Shells | Signature | 1 cost | Recharge mid-round by incomes 2 kills
	Equip a cluster grenade. Fire to throw the grenade, which does harm and creates sub-munitions, every doing harm to anybody of their vary.
	Boom Bot | Purchasable | 1 cost | Costs 200c
	Equip a Boom Bot. Fire will deploy the bot, inflicting it to journey in a straight line on the bottom, bouncing off partitions. The Boom Bot will lock on to any enemies in its frontal cone and chase them, exploding for heavy harm if it reaches them.
	Blast Pack | Purchasable | 2 prices | Costs 100c every
	Instantly throw a Blast Pack that may follow surfaces. Reuse the power after deployment to detonate, damaging and transferring something hit.
	Showstopper | Ultimate | 6 prices
	Equip a rocket launcher. Fire shoots a rocket that does large space harm on contact with something.

Good? Good. Now let’s discuss how one can develop into a top-tier Raze participant in Valorant.

Raze suggestions – Paint Shells (Grenades)

1. Paint Shells is a wonderful means for punishing enemies who’re caught in dangerous or predictable positions, however it’s additionally very helpful for zoning or shopping for time. You can throw it right into a doorway, and enemies shall be dissuaded from pushing you till after the grenade and every of its 4 sub-munitions have detonated.
2. Pre-patch, Raze may one-shot a full-health full-armor enemy with Paint Shells, supplied they had been hit by a number of munitions. But post-patch, Paint Shells can solely deal a most of 90 harm if all 5 explosions hit.
3. The preliminary grenade explodes after three seconds it doesn’t matter what, however the timer for the sub-munitions solely begins after they’ve settled on a floor. This means you’ll be able to throw your grenade excessive into the air (together with over the tops of buildings) the place it can explode, raining the sub-munitions over a a lot bigger space and spreading out the harm and zoning potential of the power.
4. There is a delay of over a second after throwing the grenade earlier than you’ll be able to shoot together with your weapon once more. So watch out, as a result of enemies can hear the sound of you pulling the pin, and can know to push you at that second.
5. Paint Shells is an especially highly effective method for punishing enemies who push from behind a Sage barrier. A typical instance is when the attackers push via B lengthy on Split, and wall off towards B tower (heaven) within the course of. If you may get a grenade over that barrier whereas they’re dashing in the direction of the location, the confined area will typically deal large harm to a number of enemies without delay.
6. Paint Shells is a good instrument for making noise and diverting the opposing crew’s consideration. Useful for faking a push to a sure web site whereas the remainder of your crew head elsewhere.
7. Throw roughly 30 levels upwards from eye stage for the furthest attainable throw that ends in the preliminary munition exploding at floor stage as an alternative of within the air.
8. Right-clicking to throw Paint Shells will end in an underhand throw relatively than the same old overhand throw. This is situationally helpful for very shut quarters fight, however it’ll solely journey a most of round 10 metres, whereas the overhand throw will simply cowl two or 3 times that distance.

Raze suggestions – Boom Bot

9. If Boom Bot manages to detonate on an enemy, it can deal 125 harm – sufficient to kill a full-health enemy with gentle armor.
10. Boom Bot causes appreciable noise, each in its preliminary launch and its subsequent travelling. This tells everybody the place you’re, so attempt to restrict how a lot you expose your self with a purpose to launch the Boom Bot.
11. In most circumstances, Boom Bot won’t ever get an opportunity to ship the huge harm it guarantees. But it may be very helpful as a distraction for those who time it proper. Peek across the nook whereas the enemy is taking pictures the Boom Bot, and also you could possibly get a free kill.
12. Boom Bot might be propelled alongside fairly a distance by detonating a Blast Pack close to it. You can coerce it over lips and ledges, or simply give it an sudden burst of velocity to doubtlessly catch an enemy off-guard.
13. Boom Bot has a wider view cone than you may assume. It’s removed from unusual for the bot to weed out enemies which might be hiding round corners.
14. As talked about, Boom Bot is extra helpful as a zoning or distraction instrument than for precise damage-dealing – however when mixed with smokes or different vision-limiting skills, you’ll be able to doubtlessly get a free kill from the bot.
15. In most circumstances, it’s much better to angle Boom Bot in order that it provides no area for enemies to stay undetected, relatively than to cowl probably the most distance. If you present enemies with an area the place they will keep away from the Boom Bot’s view cone, they will get the leap on you with ease.
16. Boom Bot’s hitbox doesn’t prolong to its wheels, so you’ll be able to clip barely via partitions with the Boom Bot. This is helpful for limiting your publicity whereas putting the bot.

Above: an instance of the sudden acrobatic feats you’ll be able to pull off with Raze by chaining collectively her Blast Packs and her Showstopper. Definitely price hopping right into a customized game to apply this.

Raze suggestions – Blast Pack

17. With an ideal hit (i.e. for those who stick the Blast Pack to an enemy), the detonation will deal 75 harm.
18. Just like Paint Shells, Blast Pack offers pleasant fireplace harm. So watch out when utilizing Blast Pack round allies. But in contrast to Paint Shells, Blast Pack offers no harm to your self, so you’ll be able to be happy to make use of it to spice up your self to in any other case inaccessible areas.
19. For these struggling to constantly enhance your self upwards with a Blast Pack, the trick is to connect the pack to the underside of the wall itself, then leap above it and detonate.
20. You can detonate Blast Pack virtually instantly after throwing it. It doesn’t have to have landed so that you can detonate it.
21. As with Paint Shells, there’s a big delay of at the least a second after throwing a Blast Pack earlier than you’ll be able to shoot once more, so watch out you don’t expose your self an excessive amount of when utilizing it.
22. You can’t shoot a Blast Pack to destroy it, however you’ll be able to destroy it with skills reminiscent of Paint Shells. Destroying the pack on this method doesn’t set off the detonation.
23. Practice utilizing each Blast Packs in fast succession to catapult your self excessive distances. This can be very helpful for momentarily propelling your self so excessive within the air you can briefly see over buildings, permitting you to achieve intel on enemy whereabouts.
24. You can detonate a Blast Pack with out it interrupting the rest you do. So you’ll be able to proceed taking pictures together with your predominant weapon when you detonate a pack.
25. If utilizing the Blast Pack to propel your self forwards for a shock assault, wait till you regain use of your weapon earlier than you detonate – or else you’ll be extraordinarily weak whereas flying via the air.
26. Alternatively, if you’d like excessive velocity greater than something (for instance, relocating to a unique space), the most effective factor to do is throw your first pack on the bottom, wait till the throw animation is full, then click on the power button three extra instances. This will explode the primary pack, then instantly throw and explode the second pack too. Angling your self appropriately when you do that will end in an unimaginable burst of velocity.
27. The timer on a Blast Pack begins from the second you throw it; it doesn’t wait till the pack lands. However, the beeps solely begin after the pack lands. So for those who throw the pack a great distance via the air, it’ll explode lengthy earlier than the beeps start to get sooner, which can shock your opponents.

Raze final suggestions – Showstopper

28. Showstopper offers between 20 and 150+ harm relying on the goal’s proximity to the very centre of the blast. A direct hit is a assured kill.
29. As with Paint Shells, you’ll be able to deal self-damage with Showstopper, so watch out.
30. Firing the rocket propels your self backwards, and you need to use this momentum to bunny-hop away.
31. You can chain collectively Blast Packs and the Showstopper to fly via the air and fireplace the rocket from above. There’s no motion inaccuracy with the rocket, so it can go precisely the place you level it.
32. The Showstopper rocket fires utterly straight; there’s no bullet drop in any respect. However, the rate of the rocket is relatively sluggish, so don’t count on immediate kills over longer distances. In some circumstances it could be higher (and safer) to decide in your common hitscan weapon.
33. The second you first hit your final button, the timer begins. And if the timer runs out, you received’t fireplace something however you’ll nonetheless burn up the power. Likewise, for those who die earlier than you get to fireplace the rocket, the power will nonetheless be depleted.
34. For this motive, it’s finest to make use of your final even for those who’re unsure you’ll hit anybody. Don’t concern your self with lining up the right hit; it’s typically a good suggestion to shoot on the wall or ground the place an enemy may be, simply in case.
35. While the timer is counting down, you’ll be able to swap weapons and battle as regular, and it received’t cancel the power. However, you’ll must undergo the last word prep animation once more if you wish to reequip it.
36. You can bait gamers by prepping Showstopper after which instantly switching over to your common weapon. An enemy who recognises the windup time of the last word may peek, anticipating to get a simple kill when you’re nonetheless caught within the windup animation. Little do they know that you simply’ll have already got your gun out and aimed toward their head.
37. While switching from Showstopper to weapon and again will incur a reequip penalty, switching from Showstopper to a different means and again is not going to. So after throwing a Paint Shell or Blast Pack, you’ll be capable to reequip your Showstopper surprisingly shortly.

Some further Raze suggestions

38. With such a damage-oriented toolkit, you should be sure you use it responsibly. Friendly fireplace is a really actual menace with Raze, and also you received’t be making any buddies through the use of your skills with reckless abandon.
39. People typically don’t consider Raze as one of the crucial cell brokers in Valorant, however the fact is an efficient Raze can use her skills to match even Jett’s penchant for excessive velocity. Take benefit of this.
40. With Raze particularly, it’s very viable to spend in your skills throughout econ rounds. It’s typically higher total to purchase a Boom Bot and a few Blast Packs than to choose up a Ghost on the primary spherical.

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