VALORANT Fade Agent Guide: Abilities and Tactics

Eagerly awaited by VALORANT players, and especially by the VALORANT community, our Turkish agent has finally arrived on the official servers. Thanks to ad campaigns and content that speaks directly to Turkish players, this agent seems to have picked up quite a bit of hype. We'd be doing ourselves a disservice if we didn't put together a guide for such a highly anticipated agent. We decided to write a guide for this agent that players are just starting to learn, that they love when they get her on their own team, and that they nearly hate when she's on the enemy team. Here's our agent guide for Fade, an agent we're also just getting to know ourselves. Here's our up-to-date 2022 VALORANT Fade agent guide.

How Do You Play VALORANT Fade? FADE Agent Guide 2022! Fade Tactics

VALORANT Fade Agent Abilities

Added to the game as an Initiator, Fade seems to have combined the abilities of all the other Initiators and put her own unique spin on each one. Every one of her abilities is somewhat reminiscent of another Initiator. Her ultimate is very similar to fellow Initiator Breach's, while her E ability is reminiscent of Sova. Without further ado, let's break down her abilities. Here's how they're described on Riot Games' website and in the game itself:

C Ability - Prowler (300 Credits, 2 max) - EQUIP a Prowler. FIRE to send Prowler forward in a straight line. Prowler will lock onto and chase down any enemy in its cone of vision or an enemy's trail, blinding the target if it catches them. HOLD FIRE to steer Prowler in the direction your crosshair is aiming.

Q Ability - Seize (200 Credits, 1 max) - Equip a sphere of nightmare ink. FIRE to throw the sphere. The sphere falls to the ground after a set duration. Upon hitting the ground, the ink sphere bursts and creates a zone that enemies inside cannot escape from through normal means. USE ABILITY AGAIN to bring the sphere down early during its flight.

E Ability - Haunt (Signature Ability, 40 second cooldown) - Equip an entity sprung from nightmares. FIRE to throw the entity. It falls to the ground after a set duration. Upon hitting the ground, it turns into an entity sprung from nightmares that reveals the location of enemies caught in its line of sight. Enemies can destroy this entity. USE ABILITY AGAIN to bring the entity down early during its flight.

X (Ultimate) Ability - Nightfall - EQUIP the power of fear. FIRE to send out a wave of nightmare energy that passes through walls. In addition to creating a trail toward the target, this energy deafens the enemy and applies decay.

How Do You Play the VALORANT Fade Agent?

Fade comes across as a pure Initiator. In VALORANT's own terms, Initiators are the group of agents who can help their teammates advance into spots that are hard to push through or get past. Given that, you need to play her somewhat like an entry agent.

If you use your ultimate ability as part of what we could call a full combo, you'll get a very effective use out of it. As for how that combo works, we can put it like this: using abilities back to back is what we mean by a combo. So after using your ultimate, you can follow up with Prowler to deafen your opponents, take away a life, and blind them all at once. This makes it much easier to enter sites.

You can also form great combinations with other agents. When your Q ability traps opponents in a specific spot, you can even get a full 5-for-5 by following up with area-damage abilities like Brimstone's ultimate or Raze's E ability.

Also, if you find a good lineup for your E ability and throw it into spots your opponents won't notice, you can become a great source of information for your team.

That brings us to the end of this installment of our VALORANT Agent Guides series. See you again soon..

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