So… you want to learn how to become a professional Cypher player. This VALORANT Cypher guide will show you all the best tips and tricks for our beloved creepy Moroccan surveillance agent.
Cypher Abilities
Trapwire
Description: Equip a tripwire. Fire to place a destructible and covert tripwire at the targeted location, creating a line that spans between the placed location and the wall opposite. Enemy players who cross a tripwire will be tethered, revealed, and dazed after a short period if they do not destroy the device in time. This ability can be picked up and redeployed if not yet triggered. It can be destroyed by shooting it once with any gun. Cypher’s tripwire is disabled and revealed upon death. Cost: 200.
Cyber Cage
Description: Instantly throw a cyber cage in front of Cypher. Activate from any distance using the whatever your binded key is to create a temporary zone that blocks vision for 7 seconds. Cost: 100.
Spycam
Description: Equip a spycam. Fire to place the spycam at the targeted location. REUSE this ability to take control of the camera’s view. While in control of the camera, Fire to shoot a tracking dart. The dart is removable and will periodically reveal the location of the enemy hit. It can be destroyed by shooting it once with any gun. Cypher can also pick up his Spycam but cannot use for 15 seconds. Spycam is disabled and revealed upon death. Cost: Free. Cooldown When Destroyed: 45 seconds.
Neural Theft – Ultimate Ability
Description: Use on a fresh enemy corpse to throw Cypher’s hat. After a brief delay, all enemy players’ locations will be revealed once. Cost: 7 Ultimate Points.
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So now that we’ve covered the abilities, let’s talk about his playstyle. Sentinel agents are defensive artists who are extremely useful in locking down an entire site while defending. These agents typically have different types of traps that can reveal much needed information on your enemies whereabouts to win the round.
Don’t be fooled though. Cypher isn’t just a defensive agent. This agent is extremely useful while attacking. Placing tripwires to hold your behind can be incredibly useful. Doing this ensures that no one can push behind to kill the entire team.
There are locations across all maps where you can place unbreakable tripwires without walking into them. These are extremely useful when rotating to the other site as your enemy cannot pass without alerting you. No more being baited without been notified. Be careful though, agents like Sage and Jett can easily boost themselves above these tripwires using their utility.
I’d recommend going in custom matches and finding your own sneaky cameras, one-way smokes and tripwires.
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