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Skye

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[e][h]Skye
Agents Information
Name:
Skye
Real Name:
Kirra Foster
Country:
Class:
Initiator
Release Date:
2020-10-27
Abilities
Abilities:
Regrowth
Trailblazer
Signature Ability:
Guiding Light
Ultimate:
Seekers

Skye is an Agent in VALORANT and the third Initiator to be released.

Biography[edit]

Hailing from Australia, Skye and her band of beasts trail-blaze the way through hostile territory. With her creations hampering the enemy, and her power to heal others, the team is strongest and safest by Skye's side.

Abilities[edit]

Regrowth

Ability: Basic
Cost: CredsCreds 200
Max Charges: 1
Equip a healing trinket. Hold fire to channel, healing allies in range and line of sight. Can be used until her healing pool is depleted. Skye cannot heal herself.
C
Trailblazer

Ability: Basic

Wolf health: 80HP Wolf duration: 6.5s Wolf vision range: 15m Concussion time: 4s

Cost: CredsCreds 250
Max Charges: 1
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.
Q
Guiding Light

Ability: Signature

Hawk duration: 2s

Cost: CredsCreds 150
Max Charges: 2
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. If the Re-Use is not pressed the bird will disappear without a flash
E
Seekers

Ability: Ultimate
Seeker health: 120HP
Ultimate Cost: 8
Equip a Seekers trinket. Fire to send out three Seekers to track down the three closest enemies. if a Seeker reaches its target, it nearsights them.
X

Version History[edit]

Version Balance Changes
8.01
  • Guiding Light (E):
    • Nerf Guiding Light no longer regenerates charges during a round.
    • Rescale Guiding Light now automatically activates the flash at the end of its lifetime.
  • Seekers (X):
    • Rescale When a Seeker gets close to its target, the target player will now get a yellow directional warning indicator..
7.12
  • Trailblazer (Q):
    • Nerf Camera movement is disabled during the leap.
    • Nerf When the Trailblazer is destroyed during the leap, it no longer causes a concuss explosion
      • Trailblazer plays the destruction voice line when destroyed during the leap.
    • Nerf Trailblazer explosion now concusses allies as well as enemies
7.09
  • Trailblazer (Q):
    • Rescale Adjusted Trailblazer’s collision so that it goes under Trapwires placed at mid-height. This won’t affect the hitboxes for weapon damage.
7.04
  • Guiding Light (E)
    • Nerf Max duration while casting reduced 2.5s >>> 2s
  • Trailblazer (Q)
    • Nerf HP reduced 100 >>> 80
  • Seekers (X)
    • Nerf Ultimate Points increased 7 >>> 8
    • Nerf Seeker Health decreased 150 >>> 120
6.07
  • Seekers (X)
    • Rescale Yellow indicator removed
5.12
  • Trailblazer (Q)
    • Nerf Cost increased 250 >>> 300
    • Buff Now immune to allied damage
  • Regrowth (C)
    • Buff Cost decreased 200 >>> 150
  • Seekers (X)
    • Buff Now immune to allied damage
5.09
  • Seekers (X)
    • Rescale Throughout this year, we’ve been periodically making improvements, so that they more reliably and efficiently reach their target.
    • Rescale Small changes were made to how Skye’s Seekers navigate around obstacles after they’ve visually acquired their target.
    • Nerf If the target is intangible when the Seekers reach them, it will not debuff them.
5.07
  • Guiding Light (E)
    • Buff Max flash duration now scales from 1s to 2.25s over a .75s charge up after being cast
    • Buff Can no longer be shot and destroyed
    • Nerf Unequip Delay increased .75s >>> .85s
  • Rescale New VFX, UI, and sounds added to communicate new gameplay intent
4.11
  • Seekers (X)
    • Bug Fix Fixed a bug where Seekers would not navigate down the chute on Breeze
  • Bug Fix Fixed a bug where Skye would sometimes make an unintended pose, seen in third-person, when holding a gun
4.10
  • Bug Fix Progress/Charge bars moved to a consistent location and made a consistent size
4.09
  • Bug Fix Fixed an issue where an unintended ‘use’ input could happen after abilities such as Skye’s Trailblazer (Q) is activated while using the ‘use’ key
4.07
  • Seekers (X)
    • Bug Fix Seekers can once again break through the destructible doors on Ascent
3.06
  • Guiding Light (E)
    • Nerf Unequip time after casting or bending Guiding Light’s projectile increased .5 >>> .75
    • Nerf Windup time after activation before the flash goes off increased .25 >>> .3
  • Seekers (X)
    • Nerf Cost increased 6 >>> 7
3.01
  • Bug Fix Fixed bug where Skye was able to activate the flash of Guiding Light (E) while suppressed
3.0
  • Trailblazer (Q)
    • Nerf Price increased 200 >>> 250
    • Buff Vision radius increased 1750 >>> 2250
    • Buff Max concussion duration increased 3 >>> 4
  • Guiding Light (E)
    • Nerf Price increased 100 >>> 150
    • Nerf Charges decreased 3 >>> 2
    • Buff Projectile now goes around corners tighter when free flying and is more responsive to guiding
    • Buff Skye no longer needs to re-equip to trigger her flash
    • Rework Charges are now replenished on a 40-second cooldown
  • Rework Audio attenuation when cast reduced 3250 >>> 1250
2.07
  • Guiding Light (E)
    • Bug Fix Fixed issue where Guiding Light appeared to go underground when thrown directly down
2.05
  • Trailblazer (Q)
    • Bug Fix Fixed a rare bug that could leave players unable to move or process inputs until they died when entering or returning from Skye's scout.
  • Seekers (X)
    • Bug Fix Fixed an issue where Seekers did not visibly move on Brimstone’s tactical map
2.03
  • Trailblazer (Q)
    • Bug Fix Fixed a couple input bugs around possessing and unpossessing Trailblazer in the same frame which lead to locking all inputs or locking view direction
  • Seekers (X)
    • Bug Fix Fixed issue where Seekers would no longer work if she was killed at a very specific moment while casting them
2.02
  • Seekers (X)
    • Bug Fix Fixed Seeker’s not being able to find enemies on the zipline platform on B-Site of Split
1.11
  • New Initial release of Skye.

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