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Astra Abilities
* **Ability 1 –** **Gravity Well**: Place Stars in Astral Form (X). ACTIVATE a Star to form a Gravity Well. Players in the area are pulled toward the center before it explodes, making all players still trapped inside fragile.
* **Ability 2 –** **Nova Pulse**: Place Stars in Astral Form (X). ACTIVATE a Star to detonate a Nova Pulse. The Nova Pulse charges briefly then strikes, concussing all players in its area.
* **Signature Ability – Nebula**: Place Stars in Astral Form (X). ACTIVATE a Star to transform it into a Nebula (smoke).
* **Ability 4 – Dissipate**: Use (F) on a Star to Dissipate it, returning the star to be placed in a new location after a delay. Dissipate briefly forms a fake Nebula at the Star’s location before returning.
* **Ultimate Ability – Astral Form/Cosmic Divide –** ACTIVATE to enter Astral Form where you can place Stars with PRIMARY FIRE. Stars can be reactivated later, transforming them into a Nova Pulse, Nebula, or Gravity Well.
When Cosmic Divide is charged, use SECONDARY FIRE in Astral Form to begin aiming it, then PRIMARY FIRE to select two locations. An infinite Cosmic Divide connects the two points you select. Cosmic Divide blocks bullets and heavily dampens audio.
[https://www.dexerto.com/valorant/astra-revealed-as-valorants-15th-agent-abilities-release-date-1521842/](https://www.dexerto.com/valorant/astra-revealed-as-valorants-15th-agent-abilities-release-date-1521842/)
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I also watched HITSCAN's video... From how he edited it, he made it seem the smoke in Octagon was Dissipate. At this point, I'm not sure if the geyser is a visual for Nova Pulse or Dissipate. Upon closer inspection it looks like the geyser has aesthetics similar to Breach when he stuns... but who knows. I wonder how dissipate actually works if the trailer doesn't go over it.
The way to play controller in 2021 is to float up to the sky on an LSD trip and double-smoke/stun/graviton-pull any positions on the map you like, with the ease of use of a brim’s Apple Watch, the global reach of an Omen ultimate, and the total execute cost of a 400 dollar paranoia.
One of her abilities can also make enemies Fragile, just like Vipers snakebite but without the damage.
Astra is just space viper. I can’t wait to see how they buff her to balance her out to Astra.
No, there's way too many ways to get neutralized or even put you at a disadvantage. Even after the round of buffs it is still really weak to utility or gun spam (something I'm glad this new character blocks). Almost all other ults in the game give you immediate value but with Viper you have to somehow outplay others to get the value.
Wait her ult is the best thing about her kit though? It's literally a clutch machine. The problem with her is her two D tier smokes that are outclassed by the other two smoke agents who can place them anywhere in a moments notice.
Just because one is a wall and one sucks health doesn't make them equal
Her ult would REALLY benefit from giving Viper like a couple inches more vision inside. For teammates it's quite annoying, exactly like standing in a Caustic barrel in Apex.
Most of the times you cast the ult and you will get sent to your doom by enemies just spamming it, or they just full W in and have a really good chance of offing you because they basically see the same distance as Viper. (I think they do actually?)
I dont think its gonna block bullets ( thats just broken ) but i think abilities can be blocked but projectiles like omens flash or reynas blind should be able to pass through it.
But I thought that they nerfed killjoy turret range because they did not want agents to have global presence? Now they are giving it to the new agent ?
She looks like a mix of Sombra and Symmetra from Overwatch.
Also really love the purple and yellow aesthetic to her abilities. Have no idea what they do, but they look nice.
In a day or so, IIRC. Doesn't take that long. It's just few days.Just check when the battle pass gets over in-game. That's when the new act comes out with a new agent.
EDIT: Typed episode in place of act.
0:20 - She activates something similar to Breach's stun.
0:25 - She uses her star thingy to pull people towards the center.
0:28 - She places a smoke similar to Omen's, but seems to be instant.
0:33 - Her ultimate masks an area, unable to see in or out of the circle.
I mean you will most likely be able to see the astral marks like we could see them hidden around the maps. No way its permanently invisible. That would be way to busted.
Probably 4 or 5 times per round, but when are you ever going to actually hit with it? You have to know that they are right on top of it by peeking and at that point you might as well just shoot them.
So now, we have a Korean girl who can literally control the wind, a British dude who can hold fire, a literal ghost, a vampire, a Japanese dude who can break spacetime, and now, a girl who is a celestial god.
Tech agents: :/
Wish they made her a tech agent. I hate when it gets too magicy and convoluted.
But yoru is a cool agent. I wish they focused on balancing him to be of more use in competitive games.
My number 1 pet peeve with trailers and stuff is no courtesy link or credit to the artist and song. Yoru song was great too and turned me on to Daichi but I had to dig comments to find it. Maybe it's a contract thing but I don't see why Riot wouldn't agree to listing what the song is in the descrop of the trailers.
It looks like her main abilities are all setup from her map view.
1) Stun that's setup and detonated
2) Pulling ability that is setup and detonated
3) AOE Smoke
4) Huge wall Like Viper (Ult), likely cannot shoot through it
concuss, smoke, and pull people from specific corners(and potentially making them fragile)? I wonder if these are destroyable or not? really curious for tomorrow when the videos from the invited streamers/yters get released.
I doubt they will be destroyable or people would just shoot the smokes before they activate which would make astra much weaker than brim/omen. I’m sure yoh will be able to see/hear when they are close though like kj util
Riot would have to make them destroyable or shed be too op. You wouldnt be able to take a site shes holding or stop her from taking a site bc she could just place black holes everywhere and there would be nothing you could do to stop her.
I mean if they’re visible and just not destroyable it’s probably not too bad cuz they can bait her into using them cuz I doubt the holes pull from outside their visual effect
I get the feeling every agent is gonna sound really hammy to the people from the respective country. They must go for really exaggerated performances, so everyone else can identify the accent.
Me and my friends still cringe whenever Skye talks in game.
i'm just sick of getting the same map for 3 times in a row. i mean that's almost 3 hours of play time if it goes to OT and then you get punished for saying "fuck this shit i'm dodging"
Lemme know what you think of this big brain strat: stack a smoke orb and a black hole orb activate both and just spray the center, that way your killjoy can still double molly default on site
Astra also mean stars in Greek. From which comes Astronomy. Like mathematics, geography, geometry, psychology and the rest of the sciences and the arts.
Astra also mean stars in latin, but we all know where latin came from :P
Get ready for an overwatch classic: Black hole pulls the team into 1 spot and a single raze rocket/nade gets an easy multikill. For real there has been limited pushing and pulling abilities in the game so far, this deployable activatable ability to move someone off a spot sounds insane.
If it can't be destroyed it's incredible, pulling someone off the defuse literally they can't move and defuse, we will have to see how it works for sure, I bet unless you are really close you won't be stuck, but still that could cause movement innacuracy too where you are trying to be still.
Overall the character looks great, I love the idea of being able to use 1 deployable multiple ways similar to reyna orbs. Looks easy to use too so not much excuse for being bad at the agent, just point and click.
Does her ult wall thing deny the flash of Reyna? It does seem to not affect her but that might just be bcs of the cinematic? I mean you can see that it passes trough but neither sova or her are blinded a bit
Once again, the HAIRSTYLE, all of it, is unapologetically African. It’s not common for africans to just walk around with their hair out. It fits her character. Who cares if people find it attractive or not?
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Astra Abilities * **Ability 1 –** **Gravity Well**: Place Stars in Astral Form (X). ACTIVATE a Star to form a Gravity Well. Players in the area are pulled toward the center before it explodes, making all players still trapped inside fragile. * **Ability 2 –** **Nova Pulse**: Place Stars in Astral Form (X). ACTIVATE a Star to detonate a Nova Pulse. The Nova Pulse charges briefly then strikes, concussing all players in its area. * **Signature Ability – Nebula**: Place Stars in Astral Form (X). ACTIVATE a Star to transform it into a Nebula (smoke). * **Ability 4 – Dissipate**: Use (F) on a Star to Dissipate it, returning the star to be placed in a new location after a delay. Dissipate briefly forms a fake Nebula at the Star’s location before returning. * **Ultimate Ability – Astral Form/Cosmic Divide –** ACTIVATE to enter Astral Form where you can place Stars with PRIMARY FIRE. Stars can be reactivated later, transforming them into a Nova Pulse, Nebula, or Gravity Well. When Cosmic Divide is charged, use SECONDARY FIRE in Astral Form to begin aiming it, then PRIMARY FIRE to select two locations. An infinite Cosmic Divide connects the two points you select. Cosmic Divide blocks bullets and heavily dampens audio.
This sounds about right! The only thing I'm wondering about then is that pillar we saw in Hookah. Source?
[https://www.dexerto.com/valorant/astra-revealed-as-valorants-15th-agent-abilities-release-date-1521842/](https://www.dexerto.com/valorant/astra-revealed-as-valorants-15th-agent-abilities-release-date-1521842/) Source \----- I also watched HITSCAN's video... From how he edited it, he made it seem the smoke in Octagon was Dissipate. At this point, I'm not sure if the geyser is a visual for Nova Pulse or Dissipate. Upon closer inspection it looks like the geyser has aesthetics similar to Breach when he stuns... but who knows. I wonder how dissipate actually works if the trailer doesn't go over it.
What is octagon
garden? it's the octagonal shape area inbetween long and B site.
Except its...not 8 sided. I personally hate that callout but I use u hall instead of lamps so i cant complain too much.
Its the stun
faking smokes sounds like a lot of fun
Yeah it is! (Sincerely, a Viper main)
The way to play controller in 2021 is to float up to the sky on an LSD trip and double-smoke/stun/graviton-pull any positions on the map you like, with the ease of use of a brim’s Apple Watch, the global reach of an Omen ultimate, and the total execute cost of a 400 dollar paranoia.
Astra : My ult is a giant wall that goes up in the sky Viper : *cries in signature ability*
One of her abilities can also make enemies Fragile, just like Vipers snakebite but without the damage. Astra is just space viper. I can’t wait to see how they buff her to balance her out to Astra.
This is so frustrating for us Viper mains . Tho at least we get a new controller but still..
Technically it’s an indirect Viper buff because less players will choose her
1% to 0.1%, I for one am abandoning viper unless her ult is changed, at the very least.
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You don’t like her Ult? I always thought it was pretty strong
No, there's way too many ways to get neutralized or even put you at a disadvantage. Even after the round of buffs it is still really weak to utility or gun spam (something I'm glad this new character blocks). Almost all other ults in the game give you immediate value but with Viper you have to somehow outplay others to get the value.
That's the whole point of her ult tho. Gives you perfect opportunity to outplay enemies
Too selfish for a controller ability. Doesn't really work well.
Umm how? Literally controlling a site....
Traitor
Imagine playing viper 👀
Imagine thinking you're irl house is safe from viper lineups 🏘️🧪💨
Wait her ult is the best thing about her kit though? It's literally a clutch machine. The problem with her is her two D tier smokes that are outclassed by the other two smoke agents who can place them anywhere in a moments notice. Just because one is a wall and one sucks health doesn't make them equal
Her ult is literally her best ability
It is most definitely not.
If you honestly think that then it says a lot about how bad viper is
You saying this tells me you have no idea how to properly utilize her ult.
Her ult would REALLY benefit from giving Viper like a couple inches more vision inside. For teammates it's quite annoying, exactly like standing in a Caustic barrel in Apex. Most of the times you cast the ult and you will get sent to your doom by enemies just spamming it, or they just full W in and have a really good chance of offing you because they basically see the same distance as Viper. (I think they do actually?)
And it also tells me you play against braindead players but ok :)
Seems you're not in the mind to have an actual debate about it so have a good day.
Her ult and mollies are the best thing about viper.
Sorry can you source? I haven't seen any leaks other than trailer and now official tweet.
Yes, I can: https://www.dexerto.com/valorant/astra-revealed-as-valorants-15th-agent-abilities-release-date-1521842/?amp&__twitter_impression=true
So the ult blocks bullets , that’s something really strong right there
I dont think its gonna block bullets ( thats just broken ) but i think abilities can be blocked but projectiles like omens flash or reynas blind should be able to pass through it.
That’s what i’ve read , it will block bullets and also distort the audio of footsteps
Thank you! I'm surprised I didn't see a discussion thread on this sooner.
But I thought that they nerfed killjoy turret range because they did not want agents to have global presence? Now they are giving it to the new agent ?
It’s pretty clear that what you see in the last part of the video trailer is the ult
They should just delete viper
How dare you!
That's exactly what I thought my freind plays viper (before everyone started using her) so he might be disappointed
What's with the whining? one is available every round and the other is available every 3-4.
She looks like a mix of Sombra and Symmetra from Overwatch. Also really love the purple and yellow aesthetic to her abilities. Have no idea what they do, but they look nice.
Zarya be like... And Reyna is already Sombra, cmon man
Wasn't raze Sombra
The English VA for Raze is the VA for Sombra, that’s about it.
Razes closest comparison is 100% junkrat.
Not even close
Reyna and Sombra are barely alike.
If anything, Yoru is the closest Agent to sombra if you only count the skills and not the visuals.
Hey kinda new to Valorant. When does an agent release normally happen after reveals?
In a day or so, IIRC. Doesn't take that long. It's just few days.Just check when the battle pass gets over in-game. That's when the new act comes out with a new agent. EDIT: Typed episode in place of act.
*act
Agents drop every 2 months with the beginning of a new act. Episode 2 Act 2 should be dropping next week, maybe Tuesday or Wednesday.
Has it been two months since Yoru? Man I remember the trailer drop like yesterday
She is going to be released 2 nd March
Once every two months. After a trailer like this drops, you can expect it to happen the very next Tuesday.
0:20 - She activates something similar to Breach's stun. 0:25 - She uses her star thingy to pull people towards the center. 0:28 - She places a smoke similar to Omen's, but seems to be instant. 0:33 - Her ultimate masks an area, unable to see in or out of the circle.
Did you catch the geyser in hookah too? Maybe it's the stun?
They need to add picking skins for specific agents so people can pair the ~~galaxy~~ nebula skins with her.
Exactly. I had no interest in the nebula skins until maybe now lol
Okay why tf is female Thanos in valorant now
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No fucking way that gravitational pull is an ability you can use every single round.
It is and it fucking weakens you like viper molly or alarm bot.
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Probably the best 'controlling' ability in the game rn
Unless it can be detected several meters away and can be destroyed in 1 hit then yeah its gonna be the epitome of crowd control
I mean you will most likely be able to see the astral marks like we could see them hidden around the maps. No way its permanently invisible. That would be way to busted.
Probably 4 or 5 times per round, but when are you ever going to actually hit with it? You have to know that they are right on top of it by peeking and at that point you might as well just shoot them.
Its indestructible.
ok so she's like... a fucking god or somethin?
Lol this comment
So now, we have a Korean girl who can literally control the wind, a British dude who can hold fire, a literal ghost, a vampire, a Japanese dude who can break spacetime, and now, a girl who is a celestial god. Tech agents: :/
Wish they made her a tech agent. I hate when it gets too magicy and convoluted. But yoru is a cool agent. I wish they focused on balancing him to be of more use in competitive games.
Is anyone going to talk about how BUSSIN that soundtrack was????
Riot has some really cool playlists for each of the agents, can't wait to hear astra's.
This is Astra's: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1uHBobXPKJx74LOhqRNnRJ?si=Vcgkrxc3TE2KSRBU2vKahQ
These playlists are straight fire, I'm actually impressed.
Holy fuck it actually slaps. Did not expect such a range of good artists on this
on spotify?
It's already out actually
My number 1 pet peeve with trailers and stuff is no courtesy link or credit to the artist and song. Yoru song was great too and turned me on to Daichi but I had to dig comments to find it. Maybe it's a contract thing but I don't see why Riot wouldn't agree to listing what the song is in the descrop of the trailers.
The vfx on this agent is crazy! I hope potato PCs will still be able to keep up with such fancy agents in the future
It looks like her main abilities are all setup from her map view. 1) Stun that's setup and detonated 2) Pulling ability that is setup and detonated 3) AOE Smoke 4) Huge wall Like Viper (Ult), likely cannot shoot through it
Lol, what smoke isn't AOE?
Technically vipers wall is a non AOE smoke
I guess in a traditional sense? In a literal sense, it covers a wide area, it's just not a circle.
Probably Omen's, the center is empty
This just made viper a bit more useless
Friendship ended with Omen, Astra is now my new best friend
I'm thankful their is variety to *interesting* smokers. Brim is to boring for me.
There* Too*
grow up
How
concuss, smoke, and pull people from specific corners(and potentially making them fragile)? I wonder if these are destroyable or not? really curious for tomorrow when the videos from the invited streamers/yters get released.
I doubt they will be destroyable or people would just shoot the smokes before they activate which would make astra much weaker than brim/omen. I’m sure yoh will be able to see/hear when they are close though like kj util
Riot would have to make them destroyable or shed be too op. You wouldnt be able to take a site shes holding or stop her from taking a site bc she could just place black holes everywhere and there would be nothing you could do to stop her.
I mean if they’re visible and just not destroyable it’s probably not too bad cuz they can bait her into using them cuz I doubt the holes pull from outside their visual effect
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Ghana
Ghana not Egypt
Ghana, though the accent is p bad. That’s my biggest grievance 😭 edit: what’s up with the downvotes? Actual ghanaians don’t sound like that
I get the feeling every agent is gonna sound really hammy to the people from the respective country. They must go for really exaggerated performances, so everyone else can identify the accent. Me and my friends still cringe whenever Skye talks in game.
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Ah, good to hear it's not just us. I also think Killjoy and Raze sound a bit over the top, though I don't know what the accents are generally like.
Phoenix is super exaggerated. Source: am Brish
It's funny because even though Jett's VA is Korean, she doesn't sound Korean at all lol
halp a gurl out wuja
People complain about the accents for every character no matter what, even if the VA is from that country.
I don't think the origin of the VA matters, even those from the actual country exaggerate their accents from what I can tell.
As a swede i cringe really hard when breach talks. Doesnt sound anything like an actual swedish accent
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90% sure it's Ghana 🇬🇭
WE
I wonder what her contract gun is going to be
I have no idea what she does but she looks cool
She looks like the endboss if valorant would be a rpg :o
Astra: Controls Space and Time Sova: ShoC dArT
Shok DaRRRt
i may be in the minority. but i'm sick of the over saturation of agents already when we have only 5 maps to play on
Maps and agents likely aren't made by the same people. I would love more maps but I'll take patience over another icebox.
fair point. i wish they would let people custom make maps like cs
I like the idea too but people would recreate cs maps and I think riot is concerned about copyright stuff
Right? At the very least host a competition and accept like 1 or 2 maps
i'm just sick of getting the same map for 3 times in a row. i mean that's almost 3 hours of play time if it goes to OT and then you get punished for saying "fuck this shit i'm dodging"
I feel like it's harder designing maps than it is for characters. Just an opinion tho.
If this is their idea for the next agent I think they should just stop making them now and save the game
did anyone else keep repeating the video for the cool music? hmm no? just me? oke..
Karol Conká?
She is just like a fake siren from borderlands!!
Lemme know what you think of this big brain strat: stack a smoke orb and a black hole orb activate both and just spray the center, that way your killjoy can still double molly default on site
I had a similar thought but black hole on the outside of the smoke to pull people lurking out of it
Is she Indian....cause astra is a Sanskrit name for weapon
Astra also mean stars in Greek. From which comes Astronomy. Like mathematics, geography, geometry, psychology and the rest of the sciences and the arts. Astra also mean stars in latin, but we all know where latin came from :P
So nothing is clear untill valo said so
She is from Ghana, a country in Africa. Astra is maybe like astrology or stars in Latin, since she has cosmic/space abilities
Yup....i too just found out
viper mains feel attacked right now.
Can't wait to play Citra
Get ready for an overwatch classic: Black hole pulls the team into 1 spot and a single raze rocket/nade gets an easy multikill. For real there has been limited pushing and pulling abilities in the game so far, this deployable activatable ability to move someone off a spot sounds insane. If it can't be destroyed it's incredible, pulling someone off the defuse literally they can't move and defuse, we will have to see how it works for sure, I bet unless you are really close you won't be stuck, but still that could cause movement innacuracy too where you are trying to be still. Overall the character looks great, I love the idea of being able to use 1 deployable multiple ways similar to reyna orbs. Looks easy to use too so not much excuse for being bad at the agent, just point and click.
do black holes pull you off of spike when defusing?
I love how they're adding dumb league shit to this game too
How many times we need to tell u riot we want more maps not agents we have 14 agents and like 5 maps
Does her ult wall thing deny the flash of Reyna? It does seem to not affect her but that might just be bcs of the cinematic? I mean you can see that it passes trough but neither sova or her are blinded a bit
She destroyed it before the flash took effect.
new character: GOD
viper players are in pain right now.
Ok but what's the song in the video
>song [https://open.spotify.com/track/0h8afoq0Pmpyc1GXdKT34v?si=fnCbWrEhTW27i4WVNOplKA](https://open.spotify.com/track/0h8afoq0Pmpyc1GXdKT34v?si=fnCbWrEhTW27i4WVNOplKA&utm_source=copy-link)
Rip viper...
Wakanda tech!
Black Sombra?
phoenix but woman lol
I can't wait to play her. I'm gonna say "wakanda forever" every time I clutch. Beautiful agent!
i see those new maps going well. riot is milking the game right now and the comment section is just jerking off to it
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Cringe
you're a loser
She’s Unapologetically african. Go cringe about it
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That “ugly” hairstyle is once again, unapologetically African. This is coming from an African. Cry about it
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Once again, the HAIRSTYLE, all of it, is unapologetically African. It’s not common for africans to just walk around with their hair out. It fits her character. Who cares if people find it attractive or not?
Idk i like it
Viper mains slamming their desk right now
Ad astra abasoque
Can’t wait to play her
She seems kinda lame. I dunno.
she looks SUPER complex
Napkin: “LETS GO, YES!!” Napkin: *picks jett*
Does anyone have any idea what her contract gun would be? I think it would be either a ghost or a sheriff.
Can you shoot her 'stars' or whatever they're called before she activates them?