Valorant Sage information – 32 ideas and tips, greatest Sage wall boosts

Sage is the character with the strongest decide and win charge in Valorant, as issues at the moment stand. Her unparalleled defensive skills permit her to tackle complete groups by herself, and her Barrier is probably going the only most pivotal means within the game. Learn the right way to flip your Sage abilities as much as eleven with our Valorant Sage information, which can stroll you thru 32 sensible top-tier ideas overlaying all of her skills and extra.

Valorant Sage information

• Sage abilities overview
• Sage tips – Healing Orb
• Sage tips – Barrier Orb & wall placement
• Sage tips – Slow Orb
• Sage ultimate tips – Resurrection
• Some additional Sage tips

Sage skills overview

You in all probability already know all about Sage’s 4 skills, however let’s go over them once more simply so we’re on the identical web page:

	Healing Orb | Signature | 1 cost | Recharges each 35 seconds
	Equip a therapeutic orb. Fire together with your crosshairs over a broken ally to activate a heal-over-time on them. Alt Fire whereas Sage is broken to activate a self heal-over-time.
	Barrier Orb | Purchasable | 1 cost | Costs 300c
	Equip a barrier orb. Fire locations a stable wall. Alt Fire rotates the targeter.
	Slow Orb | Purchasable | 2 prices | Costs 100c every
	Equip a slowing orb. Fire to throw a slowing orb ahead that detonates upon touchdown, making a lingering discipline that slows gamers caught inside it.
	Resurrection | Ultimate | 7 prices
	Equip a resurrection means. Fire together with your crosshairs positioned over a lifeless ally to start resurrecting them. After a quick channel, the ally shall be introduced again to life with full well being.

Now, let’s speak about what you are able to do with every of those skills to show Sage right into a godlike pressure on any Valorant map.

Sage ideas – Healing Orb

1. The heal impact forged by Healing Orb lasts 5 seconds, which is sufficient to heal somebody from 1 HP to 100 HP.
2. Though as Sage you’ll be able to see the well being bar of any teammate by way of partitions together with their define, truly casting Healing Orb on them requires line of sight. So if you happen to’re too far-off out of your staff you seemingly received’t be capable of assist them.
3. Right-click with Healing Orb to heal your self in case you are broken. Don’t be afraid to make use of this if you happen to’re the participant most in want of therapeutic in your staff. Healing Orb is among the major the reason why Sage has the best win charge for 1v1 fights of any Valorant agent.

Above: a clip from the ESPN Esports Invitational ultimate, by which professional participant Mendo (as Sage) boosts his staff above the enemy’s Sage Barrier to shock the enemy staff. Taken from Mendo’s Twitch stream.

Sage ideas – Barrier Orb & wall placement

4. There are an awesome many alternative makes use of for Barrier Orb throughout a spherical, however you solely get one cost, so you will need to rigorously select how and when within the spherical to make use of it.
5. Using the flexibility key once more whereas inserting the barrier will snap the rotation to be adjoining or perpendicular to you. This permits you to forged easy partitions quicker than if you happen to had been confined to holding right-click to make exact changes to the wall’s rotation.
6. Melee assaults will deal bonus injury to Sage’s wall, giving gamers an efficient however dangerous technique of breaking by way of partitions throughout eco rounds.
7. The barrier itself is split into 4 sections, every of which may be damaged independently of the others. But importantly, if you happen to place the wall able the place sure sections are thought of invalid (for instance, in the event that they clip by way of a participant or pressure them into an invalid place), the wall sections in query will break instantly.
8. The apparent technique of blockading pathways (perpendicular) just isn’t all the time probably the most environment friendly technique, because it solely requires enemies to interrupt a single part to get by way of. In sure conditions, angling the barrier will make sure that enemies should destroy two sections to get by way of (as is the case within the under video, with the wall that blocks off double doorways in Haven.
9. The HP of every part of the barrier decays independently, such that the utmost period of a wall is 40 seconds. More broken sections will dissipate before much less broken sections.
10. Be conscious that Raze can use her Paint Shells to implausible impact if you happen to and your teammates are bunched up shut collectively behind a Sage wall.
11. You can use Barrier Orb to boost your self (and your teammates) above the consequences of a Slow Orb (whether or not yours or the enemy Sage’s).
12. When inserting a Barrier throughout the doorway to a pathway, attempt to make it in order that you could possibly probably be standing on prime of the barrier at both aspect. The extra locations you may be, the much less predictable your positioning.
13. As the attackers, if it can save you your Barrier Orb till after you’ve planted the Spike then you should use it to dam or conceal the Spike from the enemy staff (there are many examples of this within the under video). But remember that inserting a wall too near the Spike will invalidate sections of the wall and trigger them to right away break.
14. As you’ll be able to see from the above clip, one of the best counter to a Sage wall is one other Sage wall. If your staff is blocked off, line everybody up and increase them above the present wall. The enemy staff will nearly by no means anticipate such a swift and efficient counter to their Sage wall.
15. You can mix Sage’s Barrier Orb with the skills of sure different brokers (Omen, Jett, and Raze particularly) to see and even hearth over the tops of buildings.
16. As you’ll be able to see, there are many intelligent and fascinating methods to make use of Sage’s Barrier Orb, however you must by no means lose sight of the truth that generally one of the best use of the wall will merely be a well-timed block.
17. Check out the under video for plenty of fascinating and highly effective Sage wall placements throughout all three Valorant maps.

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Sage ideas – Slow Orb

18. The sluggish impact lasts eight seconds after the Slow Orb breaks.
19. Running and leaping by way of a Slow will make plenty of noise, however strolling by way of it can make no noise in any respect. It is, nevertheless, very sluggish.
20. Slow Orb makes for a tremendous deterrent. Despite the truth that enemies can stroll by way of with out making noise, most gamers desire to attend till the impact is over, which implies you should purchase your self and your staff time whereas inserting at or retaking a web site. You may even stack each Slow Orbs one after the opposite to elongate the period of mentioned deterrent.
21. The Slow Orb will all the time try and cowl the identical quantity of house, no matter the place it lands. For instance, if you happen to by way of it right into a nook, it can push out additional than regular in the other way in order that it covers the suitable space.
22. The impact of Slow Orb applies to air velocity in addition to floor velocity, which implies making an attempt to leap or bunny-hop by way of it won’t make it easier to.
23. The second you allow the world of impact, you regain full motion capabilities. Unlike, for instance, Brimstone’s Stim means, the impact doesn’t persist for a time after your depart the affected space.
24. You can throw the Slow Orb an awesome distance, which lets you catapult the orb over buildings to have an effect on a very completely different space of the map.
25. The Orb itself may be bounced off partitions, which may be very helpful for putting down a sluggish with out exposing your self to the enemy.

Sage final ideas – Resurrection

26. Resurrection is an extremely essential and highly effective means. When used on the proper moments, it could utterly alter the end result of a spherical. So there’s a variety of duty that comes with utilizing this means accurately. It’s typically a good suggestion to make sure your (and your revived teammate’s) security by erecting a wall to cover behind whilst you use your final.
27. It takes a number of seconds to revive the ally, and they are often shot and killed earlier than the participant regains use of their agent.
28. But regardless of this delay, the revived agent will get their 100 HP again from the moment the flexibility is first used, which implies in determined circumstances the revived ally can be utilized as an efficient “meat shield” behind which you’ll be able to struggle.
29. You don’t must win the spherical with a Resurrection. As lengthy as you get worth out of the final word, it’s worthwhile. If, for instance, you employ it throughout an eco spherical to wipe out three out of the 5 absolutely armed opponents, that may be a wonderful use of Resurrection.
30. It’s greatest for teammates to not go too deep when combating in the event that they need to be resurrected by their Sage’s final in case they die. It’s a good suggestion because the Sage to speak this in sure conditions, as this could dictate one of the best areas from which to struggle in order that your final can be utilized extra safely and simply.

Some extra Sage ideas

31. Sage needn’t be a typical help character. She doesn’t need to be going round with the remainder of her staff therapeutic somebody the second they get injured. She is definitely extraordinarily adept on her personal, and has the best 1v1 win charge of any character in Valorant, due to her self-heal and her means to pressure good encounters utilizing her Barrier and Slow Orbs.
32. If you’re enjoying as Sage, you may have extra utility in your skills than just about some other character. So at instances, it’s greatest so that you can take the hit and forego one of the best weaponry and armor in an effort to preserve your skills well-stocked for the nice of the staff.

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